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In her speech about fuel injected engines, Tima wanted to show a picture of an engine she was working on in her garage. Which of the following should she make sure to do in her speech while using the presentation aid?   

The Principle of Outlining that reflects the idea that each main point should contain one idea is: 

Rodrigo states, “The opposition claims that marijuana is a gateway drug.”  This is the first step of:

A speaker should carefully consider language choices when persuading an audience. One common language device is metaphor, which highlights similarity between two dissimilar things. Which of the following is a metaphor?        

Words such as “first,” “initially,” and “finally,” are examples of:

You attempt to derive ethos by quoting statistics, experts, and presenting the information in an easily understood manner. Which aspect of ethos are you attempting to derive?

Sophists were commonly known for what:

“The opposition claims that the policy is going to cost too much. $300 million does sound like a lot, but that’s less than $1 per American. That’s nothing.” What kind of refutation strategy does this sentence reflect?

Emilia said, “I have visited the Idaho Falls animal shelter, the Twin Falls animal shelter, the American Falls animal shelter and all they have are Labrador retrievers. Based on these specific cases Pocatello will likely only have Labrador retrievers. What type of reasoning did Emilia use to arrive at her conclusion? 

Consider the following enthymeme: “Marla is three years old. She doesn’t know much about the super hero Deadpool.” The missing premise of this enthymeme is: