20- Get Instant Cleverness Flashcards
Schemes as persuasive tricks
Figure of thought- analogy-rhetorical question-hyperbole
coyness
Oh let me … really?
You should not have figure
dialogue
Repeat the conversation from rhetorical perspective
Speak around
Use description for a proper name
She who must be obeyed
figueres
Of speech
Of thoughts
Of tropes
and
Use it as a figure of speech to show continuity instead of Hmm or you know
Repeat the first word
Now it is time to act
Now it is time to show what we can do
Play by play- multiple yolking
Makes one noun serve a cluster of verbs
You failed to …, used ..,made up facts…,didn’t bother to…
Idioms
Repeat it to people to become appealing
figure of thought
Logos and pathos
Self answering
What do we do? justice when do we do it ? Now
trope: swap an image or concept for another
metaphors: the moon is balloon
Irony
Synecdoche: White House-swap for collection of things
Metonymy: Red for red haired-makes it go whole
cliche
Giving the expression a twist
take your opponent cliche and stick a surprise ending:
it is a great book for killing time
Sure, if you like it better dead
take it literally :
Wild whose could not drag me away
You really they would try
Cliche : argument tool
Conceded and turn it around
The yoda technique - banal idioms
Switch words around-chaismus in business
Let’s not settle for swimming with sharks, let’s make the shakes want to swim with us
It is not a question of weather you are cheating the government it is the question of whether the government is cheating you.
My friends never called me
Do you ever call your friends
In accusing:
We are being accused so some power players can score some easy point
In faulty move:
they sweet talked her and drugged her, she was responsible of her soul but not responsible for what they did with her
Dialysis
Offer distinct choices-either this or that
Antithesis
Weight one argument close to other
Those who can not do, teach
Those who can not teach, teach gym
This was not weak until you weakened it
Say yes and no
Edit yourself aloud
I have never been lost but I admit being confused for several weeks
Repeat and add no:
You have been a lil put out with me
Put out, no. Pissed yes
Litotes: calming down the argument- deny its opposition
OJ : I am not doing this for my health
father: you are not dressed for the party
Climax-pyramid plots for logic
For want of show the horse was lost, for want of horse the rider was lost
reach across to form teams, teams boost creativity, creativity boost productivity
Can add slippery slope fallacy
If you lie you cheat if you cheat you steal
Break rules and make new words
Contact as a verb
Tools
Twist cliche
Change word order
Weigh both sides
Edit out loud
Turn the volume down:double negative
Turn the volume up
Invent new words
