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Not true Scotsman
Defend by denying the counter example
Pathos
The use of emotion of pursued the audience
Hysteria proton
A disorder of time, what is first is not supposed to be first
Ad hominem
Attack an irrelevant part of the argument
Chiasmus
Words/ phrases that are repeated in reverse order
Ethos
The use of credibility to persuade the audience
Judicial oratory
The use of oratory in the courts
Style
The way in which the speech is set up
Antithesis
Word and phrases that are both opposite and parallel
Special pleading
Argument for an exception to the rules
Pleonism
Use of more word than are necessary are used
Anaphora
Words and phrase that are repeated in a group of sentences
Syllogism
Reasoning that incudes 2 premises and a conclusion
Ad noviem
Because something is new it is better
Invention
The process of coming up with arguments in a speech
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Logos
The uses of logical reasoning in an argument
Paranomasia
A play on words, a pun
Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc
Because a happens at the same time as b, a must have caused b
What about ism
Deflection by point out someone is that has done just as bad or worse
Brachylogy
Consider speech, omission of some words that are normally in a phrase
Arrangement
the part of prep. that focuses on Theo the words will be spoken
Euphemism
The use of a milder phrase in place of a harsher one
Asyndeton
Lack of conjunctions
Non sequiter
A statement that doesn’t logically follow the one that come before
Deliberative oratory
An speech on policy
Apona
When an oratory pretends not to know what to say next
Straw-man
Misrepresentation of another’s argument
Black and white fallacy
False fallacy, there are only two solutions to a problem
Prosopopoeia
Personification
Interrogative
Rhetorical question
Onomatopoeia
Word that sound like what they describe
Memory
Remember a speech
