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Question 1

What are the 8 principles of effective praise? How do we use them in a speech we create?

Answer 1

1. Show a person did something noble not for themselves but for others
2. Establish that a person’s noble deeds are intentional
3. Show the person did what was just
4. Some deeds are more appropriate for one person or organization than for another
5. If appropriate show a person has lived up to the noble example of his ancestors
6. Use comparisons and contrasts
7. Respect the audience’s hierarchy of value
8. Aim your praise to build up the first 5 of Cialdini’s points of influence

Question 2

How do we use the principles of effective praise to censure someone effectively?

Answer 2

Reverse order of the principles of effective praise

Question 3

How does the Perspective Triangle help us map all the issues of judicial rhetoric.

Answer 3

Normative Perspective: An act of wrongdoing must break a norm.
Situational Perspective: An act of wrongdoing must be an event that occurred in time and space.
Personal Perspective: An act of wrongdoing must be intentional, having a motive.

Question 4

What is lawfare? How did William Wilberforce use it to pass abolition in the British Empire?

Answer 4

Lawfare is what we call the use of laws to fight a particular practice or institution. By passing laws, he criminalized parts of the slave trade. This created a legal Situational Perspective, making slave trading formal legal wrongdoing.

Question 5

Defend the thesis that comedy was an important part of classical rhetoric in the ancient classical source documents.

Answer 5

“Comedy helps people connect with others. It gives them the courage and cheer to relieve their pain and face the world. People only laugh at a joke when they see its truth.”

Question 6

What are the 5 types of stand up comedy?

Answer 6

1. observational comedy
2. sketch comedy
3. putdown humor
4. crowd work
5. edgy stand up

Question 7

What is the 6-part form of stand up comedy? What parts make up the “set up” and the “act out” sections of this form?

Answer 7

1. Topic (1 - everything outside you 2 - everything inside you),
2. attitude (POV we want our audience to consider; weird, scary, hard, stupid),
3. premise (particular occasion, person, or thing that gives is a concrete event or example),
4. SERIOUS first act out (close the distance between comedian and premise, acting out whatever is happening),
5. mix (a small bit of music, words, or movement to transition to a new act out),
6. second act out. FUNNY

Question 8

What is a comic persona? How can we use it to make our comedy better?

Answer 8

The character that a comedian plays on stage. Use different forms and POVs to get across to the audience.

Question 9

How can we use comedy in leadership?

Answer 9

Hannibal connected with his soldiers in a humorous way that motivated and strengthened them.

Question 10

What is satire? How does it work?

Answer 10

Satire is teaching about folly indirectly, using pointed comedy, irony, and horror.