Persuasive Speaking Test

Name______

Logic Fallacies

  1. _____ I believe that it is the right of the women to decide if she should abort her pregnancy. However, most of my friends and family believe the opposite; therefore, I shut my mouth and pretend to be pro-life.
  1. _____ If you don’t turn that paper in by Friday you will be tarred and feathered. I am not accepting late work any longer. If you do not turn it in by Friday, you will fail and forever lose my confidence.
  1. _____ She is a great teacher. She is in-tune with her students and she puts in extra work by staying late. Yes, but she doesn’t dress very well. You’re right, she’s a bad teacher.
  1. _____ My mom took a poll yesterday and told me that 98% of all women wish they were thinner. Where did she take this poll? At her weight watchers meeting.
  1. _____ Can we please skip the sprints this one time? No, if you get out of it this time, you will always want to get out of it.
  1. _____ Jenny is so good at declam. She practices all the time and has a real knack for it. You would say that, you are her mother. I can’t believe what you say.
  1. _____ Yesterday, I ate at Wendy’s. Today, I have a stomach ache. Wendy’s poisoned me.
  1. _____ Dylan and Eric terrorized Columbine and shot people dead. Yes. But that behavior is justified because they were teased and ridiculed for being different.
  1. _____ Smoking is bad; never start, young lady. Now, get your homework done, while I go out for a smoke.
  1. _____ Your principal said you were at that drinking party and you have been hanging out with that bad crowd. You are grounded.
  1. _____ I am never drinking another beverage made by Coca Cola. Why not? Because I hate Mello Yello.
  1. _____ I’ve got to get an “A” this time. I haven’t earned an “A” since fourth grade; I am due for an “A.”
  1. _____ Boss, I love your outfit. Now, what about that raise?

Word Bank:

  1. Hasty Generalizations
  2. Appeal to flattery
  3. Guilt by Association
  4. Ad Hominem tu Quo
  5. Gambler’s fallacy
  6. Biased Sample
  7. Two wrongs don’t make a right
  8. Post Hoc
  9. Straw man
  10. Appeal to emotion
  11. Bandwagon
  12. Ad Hominem
  13. Slippery Slope

Evaluating Sources:

  1. Name two domain endings that would increase your chances of finding a reliable site on-line.
  1. Name three domain endings that would decrease you chances of finding a reliable site on-line.
  1. If you are deep into a website, what can you do to find the home page?
  1. Give me a description of a bad site; one that is unreliable.
  1. Name three pieces of information that would prove a site is reliable.
  1. Why is it so important where your information comes from? (2 pts)

Organizing Persuasive Speeches

  1. Name the five parts of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence. (5 pts)
  1. Using the topic “Tanning is bad for you” show me how your would organize in the Problem-Cause-Solution order. (3 pts)
  1. Show me an example of a topic and the plans you would discuss with the Comparative advantages and disadvantages form of organization.(4 pts)
  1. Write your best Attention or Introduction idea using your own persuasive speech topic. (5 pts)

Credibility/Reliability

  1. What does credibility mean?
  1. Name three types of support or proof that you could include in your speech to make it more credible and reliable. (3 pts)
  1. Name this proof: When I was 10 years old, I tore my ACL ligament in my knee. They had to take a ligament out of my arm to fix it.
  1. Name this proof: Four out of five dentists prefer Trident over any other gum.
  1. What is the number one piece of advice to remember when using evidence?

Create a Persuasion Map of you own topic and main points