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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.
False Dichotomy
Hyperbole
Procedural (Stasis)
Ethos
2. Values what is concrete rather than what is merely possible
Manufactroversy
Locus of Existence
Refutation Potential
Refutation
3. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Locus of Quality
Protagoras
Archetypal (Metaphor)
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
4. Originality - explanatory power - quantitative precision - simplicity - scope
(Special Topoi for) Science
Procedural (Stasis)
Antithesis
(Argument from) Testimony
5. Opposite of anadiplosis
Checking for Narrative argument
Special Topoi
Epanalepsis
Hasty Generalization
6. Part of the blame stock issue - the acceptance or obedience to the policy or law makes it ineffective
Litotes
Quantitative (significance)
Attitudinal (inherency)
Litotes
7. Reasoning from case to case
Analogy
Appeal to Ignorance
Valid
Composition
8. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings
Metaphor
Sound
Ambiguity
Composition
9. Using a term in an argument in one sense in one place and another sense in another place
Equivocation
Appeal to Ignorance
Locus of Existence
Disassociation of Concepts
10. Metaphors use ____ and ____
Stock Issues
Mixed Metaphor
Vehicle (and) Tenor
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
11. Ending repeated
Epistrophe
Sign
Special Topoi
Burden of proof
12. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Disassociation of Concepts
Anadiplosis
Categorical (Syllogism)
13. Asks - 'what is it?' Involves a question of meaning when a debate turns to the proper definition of terms.
Personification
Correctio
Definitional (Stasis)
Metaphor
14. Knowledge - Experience - Prudence (What part of Ethos)
Locus of Quantity
Intelligence
Associated Commonplaces
Hyperbole
15. Term with lower (negative) value
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
Conjectural (Stasis)
Anadiplosis
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
16. Shifting the buren of proof is a category of ____ __ _____
Parallelism
Valid
Appeal to Ignorance
Antithesis
17. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success
Tisias
Incrementum
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Categorical (Syllogism)
18. Prolepsis - Direct Refutation - Conceding some points to focus on others - Agree on commonality then refute - and Turn are all examples of _____ ______
Refutation Strategies
Analogy
Ambiguity
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
19. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Mixed Metaphor
Cure
Value-Oriented Arguments
Straw Person
20. Term with higher (positive) value
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Value Hierarchies
Definitional (Stasis)
21. Is a variation of the non sequiter; it is when the irrelevant reason is meant to divert the attention of the audience from the real issue
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Appeal to Ignorance
Anadiplosis
Red Herring
22. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?
Formal Debate
Ill
Unsound
Narrative
23. Structure repeated
Emotionally Charged (Language)
Denying the Antecedent (INVALID)
Parallelism
Sign
24. The system for classifying disassociated terms (visually)
Toulmin Model
Value Hierarchies
Sophist
Archetypal (Metaphor)
25. An argument that follows proper logical form
Valid
Ambiguity
Gorgias
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
26. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
(Argument from) Testimony
Hypothetical (Syllogism)
Decorum
Value-Oriented Arguments
27. All A are B - all C are B - therefore no A are C
Locus of Essence
Enthymeme
Incrementum
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
28. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Claim
Direct Refutation
Hyperbole
Status
29. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
(Argument from) Testimony
(Fallacy of) Accident
Exergasia
(Argument by) Example
30. Understatement
Litotes
Locus of Quantity
Anadiplosis
Blame
31. Accepting a token gesture for something more substantive
Composition
Rhetoric
Locus of Quantity
Tokenism
32. Draws a conclusions about ONE MEMBER of a GROUP based on a general rule about all members
Rhetoric
Tisias
Anadiplosis
Accident
33. Honesty - Dedication - Courage (What part of Ethos)
Locus of Quality
Good Moral Character
Sign
Second
34. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Mixed Metaphor
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Rhetoric
Checking for Sign argument
35. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?
Conceding Arguments
Burden of proof
Parallelism
Testimony
36. Agree with the values or goals of the opposition - but then argue that the opposition doesn't do a better job of achieving those values goals
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Value-Oriented Arguments
Agree on Commonality then refute
Rhetoric
37. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?
Cliche
Good Will (Ethos)
Erotema
Ill
38. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Analogy
Ad Populum
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
(Argument from) Cause
39. Common practice and traditional wisdom fallacies are categories of _____
Term I/Term II
Checking for Testimony argument
Value Hierarchies
Tu Quoque
40. A or B Not A Therefore - B
Tu Quoque
Fallacy Fallacy
Deductive Reasoning
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
41. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
Qualitative (Stasis)
Associated Commonplaces
Tisias
42. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Narrative
Fallacies
Epanalepsis
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
43. Have both claims - reason - and at least two sides
Questionable Analogy
Term II (Disassociation Pair)
Arguments
Status
44. A syllogism suppressing the Major Premise - and only contains a Minor Premise and the Conclusion. People speak in these more often than syllogisms.
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Disjunctive (Syllogism)
Debate Resolutions
Enthymeme
45. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Tu Quoque
Hasty Generalization
Situationally flawed
Special Topoi
46. _____ said that concerning all things - there are two contradictory arguments that exist in opposition to one another.
Unrepresentative Sample
Rhetoric
Example
Protagoras
47. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Analogy
Epanalepsis
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Checking for Cause argement
48. Usually has three parts: 1. (MP) Major Premise - unequivocal statement 2. (mP) Minor Premise - about a specific case 3. (C) Conclusion - follows necessarily from the premises
Claim
Turn
Cure
Syllogism
49. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Traditional Wisdom (Fallacy)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
Straw Person
Appeal to Ignorance
50. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the whole is true of the parts
Begging the Question
Claim
Division
Cost