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Public Debating

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Values what is at the core or essence of a group (or class) rather than what is at the margins






2. Literally - 'wise one' ; taught rhetoric to citizenry






3. Erroneously accusing others of fallacious reasoning






4. Consistency - Decorum - Refutation Potential - Cliche and Mixed _____ are forms of judging ______(s)






5. Appeals from the character of the speaker






6. Taking the absence of evidence against something as justification for believing that thing is true.






7. Indicating that something (the claim) is or is not. Is an argument from _____ ? (not a stasis point)






8. 'What is true in this case is true in general' or 'What is true in general is true in this case' Is a warrant for what kind of argument?






9. Drawing an analogical conclusion when the cases compared are not relevantly alike






10. Arguing without evidence that a given event is the first of a series of steps that will inevitably lead to some outcome.






11. Whitewashes the effect of your topic to downplay it; less emotional than appropriate






12. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the new policy. Are the adverse effects going to outweigh the benefits?






13. Use of a word or phrase that could have several meanings






14. _______ in ancient Greece spurred the need for the use of rhetoric in everyday life.






15. Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas






16. The requirement that the opposition responds reasonably to all significant issues presented by the advocate of change.






17. Grounds ---> Claim | Warrant






18. Reasoning from case to case






19. Opposite of Epanalepsis






20. Providing a response to each reason that an opponent gives






21. Deliberate exaggeration for effect; it is often accomplished via comparisons - similes - and metaphors.






22. _____ rejected rhetoric as flattery - not truth - a 'knack' on par with 'cookery' and 'cosmetics'






23. A manufactured controversy that is motivated by profit or extreme ideology to intentionally create confusion in the public about an issue of scientific fact that is not in dispute by the scientific community. Used to stop debate at the conjectural le






24. Metaphors use ____ and ____






25. An argument with true premises and valid form






26. Understatement






27. If A then B Not A Therefore not B






28. All A are B - all C are B - therefore all A are C






29. All A are B -no B are C - therefore - no A are C






30. These are commonplaces for argument drawn from the specific set of values shared by a particular community of experience and interest






31. What is 'at issue' in a controversy; the place where two sides of an argument come into conflict; the clash between arguments.






32. Structure repeated






33. 'The moral to a story tells us a greater truth' is a warrant for what arg?






34. Good Moral Character






35. If A then B Not B Therefore not A






36. Structural inherency and attitudinal inherency are part of what stock issue?






37. An argument that either lacks validity - soundness or both.






38. _____ thought that rhetoric is the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion






39. All A are B -X is A - therefore - X is B OR All A are B - all B are C - therefore - all A are C OR All A are B - all C are A - therefore - all C are B






40. If A then B If B then C Therefore - if A then C






41. Opposite of Epistrophe






42. Puritan morality - change and progress - equality of opportunity - rejection of authority - achievement and success






43. Conjectural - Procedural - Definitional - and Qualitative Points are all ____

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44. When more than one vehicle is used for the same tenor - and those vehicles appear in close proximity to each other






45. 'When a qualified person says something is true - it's true' is a warrant for what arg?






46. Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses - sentences - or lines.






47. A _____ is not just abuse or contradiction






48. Is the metaphor overused - heard so many times that it becomes tedious rather than persuasive?






49. Show that an opponent's argument actually supports your side of the debate (often accompanied by a flip in values)






50. Opposite of Anaphora