Rhetoric List 1 Flashcards
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Ad populum
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Tactic of appealing to irrational fears and prejudices to prevent audiences from facing the issue.
Ex-sadam Hussein will give his weapons of mass destruction to the terrorists–>the terrorist will harm the USA
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Ad hominen
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Emotional argument, fallacy of switching the argument from a discussion of issue to discussion of peron/ality
Ex:every Tory is a coward: George iii is a drunk
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Anadiplosis
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Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
Ex-aboard my ship, excellence performance is standard. Standard performance is substandard. Substandard performance is not permitted to exist
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Anelepsis
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Flashback
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Analogy
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Likeness or parallelism in the relationship between objects and subjects
Ex-a is to b as c is to d
