Argumentation

Question 1

Horation

Answer 1

Tolerant, witty, wise

Question 2

Juvenalian

Answer 2

Angry, resentful, personal

Question 3

Verbal irony

Answer 3

Saying the opposite of what is meant

Question 4

Dramatic irony

Answer 4

When the words or actions the character carry meaning unperceived by himself understood by the audience

Question 5

Socratic Irony

Answer 5

Pretending ignorance to achieve advantage over opponent

Question 6

Situational irony

Answer 6

Discrepancy between purpose and results

Ie burning fire house, cardiologist dying young of heart failure

Question 7

Travesty

Answer 7

Present serious (often religious) thing frivolously; reduces to lowest level
Mocking

Question 8

Burlesque

Answer 8

Ridiculous exaggeration

Question 9

Parody

Answer 9

Compositions imitating or burlesque for another, usually serious, piece of work

Question 10

Farce

Answer 10

Slap-stick, low comedy

Question 11

Knaves and fools

Answer 11

Rogues-knaves-exploit people

Suckers- fools

Question 12

Malapropism

Answer 12

Deliberate mispronunciation

Question 13

Anachronism

Answer 13

Something in the wrong time period

Question 14

Comic juxtaposition

Answer 14

Linking together with no commentary items which normally do not go together

Question 15

Mock heroic

Answer 15

Makes trivial things seem very dramatic

Question 16

Understatement

Answer 16

Taking a real life situation and reducing it to make it ridiculous

Question 17

Deflation

Answer 17

Something that happens that reduces the status of the person

Question 18

Grotesque

Answer 18

Sick humor/dark humor

Question 19

Invective

Answer 19

Most bitter; harsh language directed at something/one

Question 20

Saracasm

Answer 20

A sharply mocking or contemptuous remark, directed towards people

Question 21

Mock encomium

Answer 21

Praise which suggests blame instead

Question 22

Ad hominem

Answer 22

Don’t like the person so you don’t like their beliefs

Question 23

Bandwagon

Answer 23

Everyone is doing it

Question 24

Either or reasoning

Answer 24

An oversimplification that assumingly reduces several option to two

Question 25

Equivocating

Answer 25

A conclusion is reached incorrectly due to a shift in meaning of some word in an argument

Question 26

Hasty generalization

Answer 26

Reasoning from information about very few things to conclude about many things

Question 27

Name calling

Answer 27

Calling an opponent bad name, suggestion the name itself is bad

Question 28

Personifying abstractions

Answer 28

Speaker makes argument based on unity of belief in diverse group of sources
Doctors say
History tells us

Question 29

Red herring

Answer 29

Avoiding main argument by diversionary tactics such as following tangents

Question 30

Slippery slope

Answer 30

Assuming that a proposed step will set off undesirable chain of events

Question 31

Straw man

Answer 31

Tries to prove argument by overstating, exaggerating, or over-simplifying the other side

Question 32

Generalization

Answer 32

Well chosen sample reflects larger group

Question 33

Analogy

Answer 33

Taking from one situation based on outcome of other event

Question 34

Sign

Answer 34

Types of evidence are symptomatic

Question 35

Causation

Answer 35

Given occurrence is result of factor

Question 36

Authority

Answer 36

Authoritative source

Question 37

Principle

Answer 37

Using principles considered valid and show situation where principle applies

Question 38

Introduction

Answer 38

Thesis

Question 39

Narration

Answer 39

Background material, information needed, set up stakes

Question 40

Confirmation

Answer 40

Providing evidence for each claim

Question 41

Refutation and concession

Answer 41

Opposing viewpoints and anticipating objections from audience. Allows in other viewpoints without weakening the thesis

Question 42

Summation

Answer 42

Strong conclusion

Question 43

Inductive

Answer 43

Thesis at end

Question 44

Deductive reasoning

Answer 44

Thesis in intro