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Question 1

Dubitatio

Answer 1

start a speech with uncertainty in your voice and grow more confident as you go. OR look down at first then raise eyes to meet theirs when making main point

Question 2

The adventageous

Answer 2

speak to whats good for the audience

Question 3

tactical flaw (part of cause)

Answer 3

a defect or mistake, intentionally revealed, that shows rhetorical value

Question 4

storytelling

Answer 4

the best way to change an audiences mood. make it directly involve you or your audience.

Question 5

the pathetic ending

Answer 5

emotion works best at the end

Question 6

passive voice

Answer 6

pretend things happened on their own

Question 7

smile to disengage thinking

Answer 7

frowning correlates to thinking. smiling triggers “system one”/autopilot

Question 8

babbling

Answer 8

what Aristotle calls an arguer’s tendency to repeat himself over and over. this reveals the bedrock of your audiences opinion.

Question 9

the rejection

Answer 9

an audience will often say no in the form of a commonplace. you now have your starting ground providing you can continue the argument.