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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Repetition of the opening clause or sentence at its ending.
Rhetoric
Epanalepsis
Division
False Charge of Fallacy
2. Professional Standing - Fame (Ethos)
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
Tisias
Value-Oriented Arguments
Status
3. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.
Accident
Popular Democracy
Division
Stasis
4. A metaphor with a vehicle that draws upon a human experience that is universal
(Argument of ) General probability
Locus of Existence
Non Sequitur
Archetypal (Metaphor)
5. Ask a rhetorical question
Second (or) Third
Accident
Erotema
Ambiguity
6. Incorrectly assuming that what is true of the parts is true of the whole
Invalid (Categorical Syllogism)
Good Will (Ethos)
Qualitative (Stasis)
Composition
7. 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
Agree on Commonality then refute
Associated Commonplaces
Commonplaces
Status
8. Repetition of the same idea - changing either its words - its delivery - or the general treatment it is given.
Exergasia
Parallelism
Isocrates
Structural (inherency)
9. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)
Metaphor
(Argument of ) General probability
Sign
Rhetoric
10. It does not follow - Red Herring belongs to this category
Claim
(Argument from) Testimony
Situationally flawed
Non Sequitur
11. Special Topoi and Loci of the Preferable - what kind of args?
Qualitative (Stasis)
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
Red Herring
Value-Oriented Arguments
12. Personal charm - sex appeal - leadership qualities (Ethos)
Charisma
Slippery Slope (Fallacy)
First
Categorical (Syllogism)
13. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike
Accident
Conjectural (Stasis)
Correctio
Questionable Analogy
14. Religious liberty - limited government - entrepreneurship - military strength - traditional institutions - property rights
Fallacies
Accident
Term I (Disassociation Pair)
(Special Topoi for) Republicans
15. An irrelevant attack on an opponent rather than on the opponent's evidence or arguments; this is literally translated as an argument 'to the person'
Questionable Analogy
Modus Tollens
Modus Ponens
Ad Hominem
16. Beginning repeated
Sophist
Claim
(Argument from) Narrative
Anaphora
17. 'If two things are alike in most respects - they will be alike in this respect too' Warrant for what arg?
Tisias
Analogy
Epistrophe
Popular Democracy
18. Asks - 'who has the authority?' Involves a question of proper procedure.
Simile
Begging the Question
Definitional (Stasis)
Procedural (Stasis)
19. Are the two things really alike - or are there significant differences that might make them unalike in this respect? Are the negative consequences to comparing these two things? Is the analogy clear or confusing?
Checking for Analogy argument
Anadiplosis
Locus of Existence
Red Herring
20. Affirming or denying a point strongly by asking it as a question; also called a 'rhetorical question'
Non Sequitur
Ad Hominem
Locus of Existence
Erotema
21. Accepting an argument by example that reasons from specific to general on the basis of relevant but insufficient information or evidence.
Appeal to Ignorance
Value Hierarchies
Hasty Generalization
Vehicle (and) Tenor
22. Arguments that are flawed (not from formal logic)
Checking for Narrative argument
Fallacies
Accident
Litotes
23. Value Hierarchy Visualization in terms of high and low values (?/?)
Associated Commonplaces
Cliche
Checking for Analogy argument
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
24. Set two things in opposition
Appeal to Authority
Antithesis
Hyperbole
(Argument from) Sign
25. 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
Composition
Quantitative (significance)
Syllogism
Loci of the Preferable
26. _____ thought that the most worthy study is one that advances the student's ability to speak and deliberate on affairs of the state.
Questionable Cause
Isocrates
Manufactroversy
Unsound
27. Ill - Blame - Cure - Cost
Quantitative (significance)
Stock Issues
Good Will (Ethos)
Anaphora
28. An argument with true premises and valid form
Sound
Exergasia
Litotes
Loci of the Preferable
29. Values what is unique - irreplaceable or original
Epistrophe
Locus of Quality
Euphimism
Popular Democracy
30. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
Ill
Mercenary Scientists
Popular Democracy
Aristotle
31. An implicit comparison made by referring to one thing as another
Checking for Example argument
Sound
Metaphor
Hasty Generalization
32. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other
Mixed Metaphor
False Dichotomy
Sound
Locus of Quality
33. Understatement
Plato
(Argument from) Sign
Litotes
Ill
34. Circular Reasoning
Associated Commonplaces
Quantitative (significance)
Begging the Question
Epistrophe
35. Does the moral really follow from the story? Is the narrative plausible and coherent? Are the characterizations consistent?
Checking for Narrative argument
Popular Democracy
Anadiplosis
Accident
36. Part of blame stock issue - the composition of the policy is flawed
Cicero's Four Stasis Points
Antithesis
Structural (inherency)
Less Valued Term/Higher Valued Term
37. Is another variety of Hasty Generalization. It is when you reason from a sample that is not representative (typical) of the population from which it was drawn.
Second
Example
Unrepresentative Sample
Correctio
38. 'Bad eggs are all you are likely to get from a bad crow' was said where?
Rhetoric
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Honesty - Dedication - Courage
Anaphora
39. Faling to bring relevant evidence to bear on an argument
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Manufactroversy
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Nonassociated (commonplaces)
40. Is a variety of questionable cause; it is when you conclude that something cause dsomething else just because the second thing came after it; literally translated as 'after this - therefore on account of this'
Anaphora
Ill
Refutation
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
41. They stablish an arena for argumentation by defining ground for a dispute and issues of controversy. Typically - one side affirms the resolution and one side negates the resolution.
Loci of the Preferable
First
Debate Resolutions
Refutation Strategies
42. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'
False Charge of Fallacy
(at the) Corax (and) Tisias trial
Value-Oriented Arguments
Plato
43. A field of scholarship devoted to how arguments work
Quantity Quality Essence Existent
(Argument from) Testimony
Questionable Cause
Rhetoric
44. Is necessary to defend the weak against the strong - Is useful and necessary to the state and the individual because you become a more thoughtful citizen and a more well-rounded person - Is useful to have the tools to recognize good arguments and def
Rhetoric
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Suppressed or Overlooked Evidence
Gorgias
45. Focuses on inadequacies or problems in the status quo - must be significant if a change is to be made. Must Have: 1. Quantitative significance: affects lots of people 2. Qualitative significance: is of bad quality
Ill
Anaphora
Affirming the Consequent (INVALID)
Value Hierarchies
46. Draws a conclusion about an entire entity based on knowledge about all of its parts
Composition
Ill
Non Sequitur
Culturetypal (Metaphor)
47. Inference that allows you to move from grounds to claim (often implied in the argument)
Conceding Arguments
Warrant
(Special Topoi for) American Public Address
Unsound
48. 'X causes Y' is a warrant for what argument
Common Practice (Fallacy)
Cause 9Arguing that something caused something else)
Anaphora
Rhetoric
49. Is the metaphor appropriate? The key to ____ is matching strategy to situation.
Hyperbole
Testimony
Checking for Testimony argument
Decorum
50. Is a variation of Appeal to Ignorance. It is when you accept an argument that the presumption lies with one side and the other side has the burden of proving its case when the reverse is actually true
Euphimism
Post hoc - ergo propter hoc
Shifting the Burden of Proof
Honesty - Dedication - Courage