Public Speaking

Question 1

Logos

Answer 1

La raison

Question 2

Pathos

Answer 2

Les emotions

Question 3

Monroe Motivated Sequence

Answer 3

Persuasive speech organization pattern

-> Attention
-> Needs
-> Satisfaction
-> Visualization
-> Action

Question 4

Persuasive speech organization patterns (other than Monroe)

Answer 4

• Problem - Cause - Solution
  -> Demonstrate a problem
  -> Highlight the cause
  -> Propose a solution
• Comparative advantages
  -> Which thing is more advantageous
• Refutation
  -> When everyone knows the solution, main points describe myths/wrong beliefs and argue against them

Question 5

Hasty generalization

Answer 5

(Fallacy) Making a claim based on a sample size far too small to support the claim.

Question 6

False cause/post hoc

Answer 6

(Fallacy) The assumption that because one event preceded another event, they must be causally related

Question 7

Invalid analogy

Answer 7

Assuming that because two things are alike in one more aspects, they are necessarily alike in some other.

Question 8

Bandwagon

Answer 8

(Fallacy) Claiming a truth of affirming something is good because the majority think so.

Question 9

Either or

Answer 9

(Fallacy) The assumption that there are only two choices or possible outcomes when actually there are several.

Question 10

Slippery Slope

Answer 10

(Fallacy) Making a claim about a series of events that would lead to one major event, usually a bad event.

Question 11

Tradition

Answer 11

A conclusion or side is supported solely because it has long been held to be true or superior

Question 12

Novelty

Answer 12

(Fallacy) Something is assumed to be either good or better than something else, simply because it’s perceived as being newer or more novel.

Question 13

Ad hominem

Answer 13

(Fallacy) instead of addressing someone’s argument or position, you irreverently attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument.

Question 14

Moral equivalence

Answer 14

(Fallacy) argument that seeks to compare two or more different and unrelated things in order to argue that one is «just as bad» or «just as good» as the other

Question 15

Straw man

Answer 15

(Fallacy) When someone distorts or exaggerates another person’s argument and then attacks the distorted version of the argument instead of genuinely engaging

Question 16

Circular reasoning

Answer 16

(Fallacy) An argument that assumes the very thing it I straying to prove is true, Instead of offering evidence, it simply repeats the conclusion, rendering the argument logically incoherent.