Rhetorical Terms and Concepts Quiz

The figure of coyness ('Oh, you shouldn't have.')

An attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas.

A figure of hidden meaning.

<p>If something less likely is true, then something more likely is bound to be true.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Doubling back' or the rhetorical repetition of one or several words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A literary device of repetition at the beginning of a series of lines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A balancing of two opposite or contrasting ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expression of doubt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence that is doubtful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fractured syntax and repeated code words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but reversed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Indirect language that avoids getting to the point.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A logical fallacy that uses a bad example to generalize.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The type of rhetoric used to argue what a society should do in the future.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Persuasion that deals with values that bring a group together.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth through logical arguments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The dialogue figure: speaking as someone else.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The this-not-that figure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Uses a single subject to govern a succession of verbs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freedom from special interest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Feigned doubt about one's speaking ability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vivid description that makes an audience believe something is happening before their eyes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A syllogism with an unstated premise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Correction figure or edit yourself aloud.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Demonstrative rhetoric.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To intentionally use vague language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Debating that seeks only to win points.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Credibility.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Disinterest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A specific case that demonstrates a general idea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Argument that determines guilt or innocence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unabashed use of illogic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Raising a question and then proceeding to answer it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the individual words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The fallacy of proving the wrong conclusion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The technique of planting negative ideas in the audience's mind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A prophecy of doom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The opportune time to do or say something.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rhetorical term for quibbling.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An understatement by negating the opposite.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Argument by logic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Correction or qualifying a statement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A comparison establishing figurative identity between objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A figure of thought that skips over an awkward matter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Substituting one phrase for another closely associated phrase.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A new word or expression.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A statement that does not logically relate to what came before it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word whose sound suggests its meaning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Something serving as a model or example.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mentioning something while claiming not to mention it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attaching a surprise ending to a thought.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Argument by emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The 'speak around' figure using description as a name.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Begging the question or a circular argument.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Practical wisdom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deliberate use of many conjunctions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It attempts to prove that one event caused another because it followed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'Phronesis'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Anticipation of objections in advance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making petty distinctions or irrelevancies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The fallacy of distraction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To reduce to the absurd.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The art of persuasion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A fallacy that assumes taking a first step will lead to unavoidable subsequent events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nonstandard grammatical usage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attacking a weaker version of the argument, instead of the actual issue.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A figure that reframes an argument by redefining it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A figure of speech that uses a part as representative of the whole.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unnecessary repetition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idiot savant figure, where illogic makes a sort of sense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using the voice of God and refusing to hear the other side.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assumes this moment is identical to past moments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A limited number of options is presented, while more exist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Claiming a statement is true because it hasn’t been proven false.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The assumption that anything labeled natural is inherently good.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using your opponent's terms to attack them if they favor you.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using contrasting terms about your opponent to make them look bad.</p> Signup and view all the answers