Persuasion MCQ Questions Answers

1. Questioning or proving the existence or actuality of some event - action - thing - person

2. An argument whose conclusion does not follow from its premise

3. Claims attack the person and not the issue

4. This technique wants you to associate the good feelings created in the ad with the product - Because you deserve it - We want you to have the best.

5. The feelings or emotions that are evoked from a word

6. Takes as evidence what it claims to prove

7. Statements claiming that some proposition is untrue or incorrect

8. The business technique that uses narration and storytelling to evoke a particular experience of a product - person - company. Also used to promote particular lifestyles. By consuming this bran - you participate within this lifestyle - e.g. Starbucks-

9. A logical appeal or an appeal to reason (facts - statistics - and expert testimony)

10. When you assume that the audience will automatically supply and accept an unspoken premise; construct an argument that does not explicitly state all the premises because you know the audience members will fill in those premises on their own.

11. What's my message? - Who's my audience? - How should I adapt my message to my specific audience? - What's my rhetorical strategy? - What's my goal?

12. To misrepresent your opponents argument; to seemingly refute your opponent's argument when in fact you have not accurately described his/her position

13. An ethical appeal that establishes the speaker's or writer's credibility and trustworthiness

14. Dissimilarities between two things are so much greater than their similarities - that their connection is unjustified

15. A fact that may be used to infer another fact

16. Does not acknowledge the possibility of a neutral position

17. Advertisers try to make their products stand out by focusing on a single element that is found only in their product - hoping that consumers will think this means their product is better - he only breathmint that has retsyn - There's nothing else lik

18. Appeal to an unqualified expert

19. To reduce complex matters to an either/or logic

20. Advertisers intentionally do not finish a comparison - Our Candy is Sweetest - The safer car for your family

21. A suggestion that is offered for consideration or acceptance

22. An expressed opinion - statement - or point of view

23. The ability to make a 'rational' link between your claim and evidence - which helps the audience consent to your argument

24. The dictionary definition of a word

25. An argument based on two premises and a conclusion that is logically true - E.g. vegetarian do not eat meat - I am a vegetarian - Therefore - I do not eat meat

26. Evidence supporting the team's position or used to denigrate or defeat the opposing view

27. The generally held opinion held prior to the debate

28. Facts - figures - numbers - graphs - charts - polls - surveys

29. A discussion adhering to parliamentary rules of proposition between two opposing sides

30. When you read a nonfiction passage - you must decide what information is important and what is not. What you must remember is the essential information. Essential information is necessary to understand a passage. This includes the main idea and the s