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143 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Speech and Debate exam

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A

Ad populum fallacy
Affirmative rejoinder
Anadiplosis
APA Style
Appeal to Tradition
Applause lines
Argument flow
Argument from Ignorance
Articulation
As brave as a lion
Asynchronous debate
Attention Grabber
Audience appeal
Audience perceptions

B

Backing
Beat gestures
Beginning-middle-end
Bias in judging
Brave and Bold
Bridging Statements

C

Captive audience
Case solvency
Character assassination
Cherry-picked data
Cherry-picking
Chronological organization
Circumstantial Ad Hominem
Closed-ended questions
Cohesion
Communication accommodation theory
Credibility establishment
Credibility Statements
Cross-examiner

D

Debate ballot
Deictic gestures
Deliberative speech
Demonstrative speech
Douglas's Freeport Doctrine

E

Effective Framing
Emphatic language
Entertaining speech
Epideictic speech
Evidence standards
Expectancy Violations Theory
Expert testimony
Explicit premises
External validity

F

Fact claim
Fake news
Fallacious reasoning
Fallacy of affirming the consequent
False equivalence
Flowing
Flowing a policy debate
Formal analysis
Framework
Framing

G

Generating Clash

H

Hashtag activism
Heterogeneous audience
Homogeneous audience
Hostile audience

I

Iconic gestures
Impact framing
Implicit premises
Indirect approach
Informal Fallacies
Informative speaking
Informative Speech
Initial burden
Internal Preview

J

Judge
Judge adaptation in policy debate

K

Karl Popper
Kenneth Burke