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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:

Pablo states the following: “She was a volcano of rage. Destroying anything in her path.” This is an example of which stylistic device.

Match the the speech excerpt with the step in Monroe’s Motivated Sequence that it best represents. 

In his speech, Malik argued, “My opposition claims that Universal Healthcare would be too expensive and is not realistic. Actually switching to a universal system could save money. A study done by Yale epidemiologists found that switching to a universal healthcare system could save around 450 billion dollars a year.” Which refutative strategy does Malik use? 

One of the visual cues of form is shape. We discussed triangles as the most active and dynamic shape. Which of the following statements best explains the power of an equilateral triangle: 

This Greek philosopher created the artistic proofs of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos.

Which refutative strategy is illustrated in this statement: “Although 29,000 sounds like a lot of students who cheat on the SAT, the test is taken by 6.7 million students worldwide, making this only a .004% rate of cheating.”