Exam 17: Methods of Persuasion

How your audience perceives you after your speech is commonly known as ______ credibility.

When you respond to another's position by distorting, exaggerating, or misrepresenting their argument, you are depending on a ______ in an attempt to create the illusion that you refuted the other's stance successfully.

______ is Latin for "after this; therefore, because of this."

A/an ______ is an attack on a person instead of the veracity of the argument.

When you use ______ reasoning, you move from the general to the specific.

Which of the following is NOT a part of a syllogism?

A ______ is a statement that direct observation can prove true or false.

You make a hasty generalization when you are too quick to draw an inference and thus jump to a conclusion based on too little evidence.

Deductive reasons take the form of______, which are patterns to structure arguments.

Stephen Toulmin shows that effective reasoning has what components?

What is an appeal to misplaced authority?

An illogical fallacy is a flawed reason.

______ should be fair, unbiased, appropriate, and from a recognized expert.

What is an appeal to fear fallacy?

You make a ______ when you are too quick to draw an inference and thus jump to a conclusion based on too little evidence.

______ generalities are the opposite of a personal attack.

Why should you avoid using fallacies?

A false dichotomy is employed when you require your audience to choose between two options (usually polar opposites).

Describe a glittering generality.

______ credibility refers to how they perceive you while you are speaking.