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Rhetorical Devices
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 16 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Words or phrases that serve to weaken a claim - without at the same time making the claim less significant - so that it is harder for someone to refute the claim. Some _______ limit the extent of a generalization; others qualify or place restrictions
Proof surrogates
Weasel Words (guarding expressions)
Name-Calling
Buzzwords
2. Words used to make a conjunctive claim. The two claims made - though - are in oppositioni in the sense that What is suggested by one of the claims is different than What is suggested by the other claim. The ______________ is used to discount - or dow
Jargon
persuasive comparison
Discounting expressions
Weasel Words (guarding expressions)
3. A word or phrase that is emotively neutral or negative and is used instead of a word of phrase with a more favorable emotive force.
Proof surrogates
Hyperbole
Dysphemism
Loaded Questions (complex questions)
4. Involves attaching a label carelessly and inappropriately to a person - a group of people - or a position so as to suggest something about the person - group of people - or position. Because of the strong emotive force associated with certain words -
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Name-Calling
Proof surrogates
5. A word of phrase that is emotively positive or emotively neutral and is used instead of a word or phrase that has a less favorable emotive force.
Name-Calling
Loaded Questions (complex questions)
Euphemism
Jargon
6. Words or phrases that take the place of argumentation in that they are used to suggest that an appropriate argument could be given when needed but do not supply that argument.
Proof surrogates
Loaded Questions (complex questions)
Examples of Buzzwords
Euphemism
7. Words or expressions that tend to excite an audience - even though often they do not have a clear meaning.
Proof surrogates
Buzzwords
Name-Calling
stereotype
8. Questions inappropriately asked in a discussion because the presuppose that an unresolved issue has already been - in fact - resolved - an issue that may be the very point of the discussion to settle.
Loaded Questions (complex questions)
Words or phrases that are frequently used as discounting expressions.
Hyperbole
Name-Calling
9. Technical vocabulary of a specialized discipline. Speakers and writers who face an audience familiar with the jargon of a discipline can use the jargon efficiently in communicating complex ideas. Unfortunately - though - sometimes speakers and writer
Buzzwords
Jargon
Dysphemism
Weasel Words (guarding expressions)
10. Involves a speaker saying something that suggests (or conversationally implies) something negative about a person or persons.
Innuendo
Warranting Expressions
Jargon
Weasel Words (guarding expressions)
11. Change - think outside the box - family values - freedom - American values - American way of life.
Jargon
Warranting Expressions
Examples of Buzzwords
Words or phrases that are frequently used as discounting expressions.
12. A simplified - inadequately supported view of image of the typical or average member of a population.
Discounting expressions
Euphemism
persuasive comparison
stereotype
13. Premise and conclusion indicators are both _________ in that they both can occur in argumentative discourse to signal - a transition from one premise to another or from one or more premises to a conclusion.
Proof surrogates
Examples of Buzzwords
Jargon
Warranting Expressions
14. Deliberate exaggeration that is often used to slant (often by misrepresentation of a position) a discussion in favor of or against a particular view.
Hyperbole
Proof surrogates
persuasive comparison
Words or phrases that are frequently used as discounting expressions.
15. Such words or phrases as: but - even though - although - however - yet - nevertheless - inspite of the fact that - notwithstanding the fact that
Jargon
Words or phrases that are frequently used as discounting expressions.
Weasel Words (guarding expressions)
persuasive comparison
16. Offered when a speaker or writer compares one thing with another thing to which strong positive or negative emotions are attached. When a speaker or writer wishes to cast aversion on something - he compares the thing with something already held in a
persuasive comparison
Euphemism
Examples of Buzzwords
Buzzwords