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What are platonic ideals?

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The perfect, ideal form of something.
Ex: Aragon is the platonic ideal of a prince/king

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What is the buffered self?

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The idea of creating a barrier between yourself and the divine/enchanted. Eg. only believing what you see/ what is physical

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What is rhetoric?

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Using emotional language as support to in argument when doing so is innapropriate

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What are weasler words?

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When one uses half-truths to make a situation seem better/ to get out of something

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What is syntactic ambiguity?

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When the faulty structure/grammar of a sentence makes it ambiguous

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What is semantic ambiguity?

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When a sentence is ambiguous because it has more than one meaning

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What is God’s from in LOTR

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God does not manifest in the physical but exists as light

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How does LOTR demonstrate that we are both fated and free?

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1) Stories only proceed because of free will and poor choices
2) Nothing and no one forced Frodo to carry the burden of the ring

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What is the link between God and truth?

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As per Tolkein, God is the ultimate source of truth in the world.

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Which race of creatures is the most aesthetic?

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The elves

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What is a euphemism?

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Making something bad sound good

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What is a dysphemism?

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Making something good sound bad

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What is a downplayer?

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Reducing the gravity of an event or accomplishment

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What does it mean to reject the buffered self?

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Rejecting it means to see beyond the physical and allow yourself to be lost in the nature of things.

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What makes Gandalf angelic?

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1) Always shows up at the right time
2) Never manipulates or forces others to do what he wants
3) Reincarnation

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What is a stereotype?

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Cultural beliefs related to a specific group of people

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What is an inneuendo?

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Making an accusation by insinuating that the accused did something wrong (indirect accusation)

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What is a loaded question?

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A question that cannot be answered simply without making one look bad (usually contains an accusation)

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What is the importance of nature according to Tolkein?

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It is the ultimate source of beauty. It makes us happy simply because of its beauty. It helps us recover feelings of enchantment.

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What is cartesian dualism?

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The idea that the mind and body are separate and that there is more than just the physical world (Ex: Humans are not merely flesh robots)

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What is hyperbole?

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An overstatement or gross exaggeration

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What is a rhetorical definition?

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Defining something using emotionally charged language

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What is a rhetorical explanation?

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Explaining something using emotionally charged language

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What is a proof surrogate?

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Giving evidence for a claim based on a perceived common sense (there is no evidence)

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What is a rhetorical analysis
Making a comparison between two terms with emotionally charged language
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What is Argumentum Ad Hominem?
Invalidating an opinion or fact by dismissing the person who provided it
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What is a circumstantial Argumentum Ad Hominem?
Believing that because someone stands to benefit from saying something, they are automatically wrong
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What is poisoning the well?
Invalidating an opinion or fact by attacking the personality or background of the person who provided it
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What is a genetic fallacy?
Invalidating an opinion or fact because its origins are believed to be bad
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What is a straw man?
Distorting an argument in order to dismiss it/ make it look worse
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What is a false dilemma
The illusion of having only two choices
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What is a line drawing fallacy?
Refusing to draw a line simply because it is difficult to do so
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What is a perfectionist fallacy?
Refusing to do something simply because it is impossible or very difficult to perfect
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What is misplacing the burden of truth?
Placing the burden of proof upon the person giving an argument (part of their argument is very difficult to prove)
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What is begging the question?
Using the argument itself as evidence for the argument (circular logic)
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What are scare tactics?
Creating a sense of fear towards something instead of providing an argument
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What is argument from outrage?
Believing one has the right to do something dramatic simply because they are upset
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What is an appeal to pity?
Using pity to convince someone instead of an argument
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What is apple polishing?
Sucking up to someone in order to convince them
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What is an appeal to jealousy?
The attribution of ones success to negative things
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What is an inconsistency ad hominem?
Dismissing an argument because it is hypocritical
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What happens when someone lives too long?
The person begins to fade as things weigh down on them
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What is the true conquest of nature?
The conquest of death; immortality
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What is divine providence?
God on earth; providing and caring for humans
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Who is Arwen in LOTR
Aragorn's true love, daughter of Elrond
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Who is Faramir in LOTR
The brother of Boromir
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Who is Wormtongue in LOTR
King Theoden's adviser. An agent of Saruman meant to keep the king weak.
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What is the name of Saruman's orb? What does it tell Pippin?
The Palantir. It tells him of the attack on Minas Tirith
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Who is king Theoden in LOTR?
He is the king of Rohan.
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Who is Steward Denethor in LOTR
Father of Boromir and Faromir. Temporary ruler of gondor
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Who is Elrond in LOTR?
The father of Arwen
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Who is Galadriel in LOTR? What does she do for Frodo and Sam?
She is an elder of Lorien. She gives a powerful rope to Frodo.
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Who is Rosie in LOTR?
Sam's wife
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What brings the Ents to attack Isenguard?
Merry and Pippin steer Treebeard to the part of the woods that had been levelled by Saruman's army, enraging the Ents.
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What is 'summum bonnum'?
Humanity's conquest of nature
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What does Gandalf fight on the bridge in the mines of Moria?
A Balrog
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What do the ringwraiths ride on?
Fell beasts

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