effective communication

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of an initial consonant sound

Question 2

anaphora

Answer 2

repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of clauses

Question 3

antithesis

Answer 3

juxtaposition of contrasting ideas

Question 4

apostrophe

Answer 4

addressing a nonexistent person or inanimate object

Question 5

assonance

Answer 5

similarity in sound of internal vowels in neighbouring words

Question 6

chiasmus

Answer 6

verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed

Question 7

euphemism

Answer 7

substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit

Question 8

6 techniques to speak like a leader

Answer 8

Three breathless sentences, three sentences in which the opening clause is repeated, three balancing statements, metaphors, exaggeration, and rhyme

Question 9

6 rhetorical terms

Answer 9

exordium, narratio, partitio, confirmatio, refutio, peroratio

Question 10

exordium

Answer 10

where one announces the subject and purpose

Question 11

narratio

Answer 11

narrative of what has happened

Question 12

partitio

Answer 12

what will follow

Question 13

confirmatio

Answer 13

logical arguments of proof

Question 14

refutatio

Answer 14

to answering the counterarguments of one’s opponent

Question 15

peroratio

Answer 15

a summary appealing through pathos

Question 16

rethorical appeals

Answer 16

ethos, pathos and logos

Question 17

appeals to reason and logic

Answer 17

logos

Question 18

appeals to credibility and trust

Answer 18

ethos

Question 19

appeals to emotions and values

Answer 19

pathos

Question 20

(fallacy) to attack the person, rather than the fact

Answer 20

Personal attack

Question 21

(fallacy) to say many people do it

Answer 21

bandwagon

Question 22

(fallacy) to compare two facts that are distant from one another

Answer 22

False cause

Question 23

(fallacy) to force you to choose either black or white when gray is an
available alternative

Answer 23

black or white

Question 24

(fallacy) to include too many questions embedded in one

Answer 24

Loaded question

Question 25

(fallacy) to use a vague reference of a personal experience

Answer 25

Anecdotal

Question 26

(fallacy) to use 3 traps or more at a time

Answer 26

fallacy, fallacy

Question 27

(fallacy) to refute an argument that was not presented by that opponent

Answer 27

strawman

Question 28

(fallacy) to manipulate pathos

Answer 28

appeal to emotion

Question 29

(fallacy) to use a relatively small first step that leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant, usually negative effect

Answer 29

slippery slope

Question 30

(fallacy) to make an argument by beginning with an assumption that what you are trying to prove is already true

Answer 30

circular reasoning

Question 31

(fallacy) to infer that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole.

Answer 31

composition

Question 32

(fallacy) to make you think that even a child can understand it

Answer 32

common sense

Question 33

(fallacy) to use ignorance to take down a claim

Answer 33

personal incredulity

Question 34

10 characteristics of a good leader

Answer 34

strong communication, listening , passion and commitment, positivity, innovation, collaboration, honesty, diplomacy, empathy, and humility

Question 35

5 characteristics of a good public speaker

Answer 35

confidence, passion, introspection, being yourself, and engagement with the audience

Question 36

4 key concepts in a discourse

Answer 36

context, action, power, and ideology

Question 37

litotes

Answer 37

An understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite

Question 38

metaphor

Answer 38

An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common.

Question 39

metonomy

Answer 39

A word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.

Question 40

oxymoron

Answer 40

Incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.

Question 41

paradox

Answer 41

A statement that appears to contradict itself.

Question 42

synecdoche

Answer 42

A part is used to represent the whole.