Emphasis Markers and Debate

• Emphasis

  • Form of exaggeration or amplification making things bigger in some way than they really are
  • Used to tell the listener where the important parts are and focus their attention
• Different Emphasis Markers (EPREI):

  • Emotive Words
  • Personal Pronouns
  • Repetition
  • Exaggeration
  • Imperatives
• Emotive Words

  • Words design to evoke emotions
• Personal Pronouns

  • Involve the readers
  • Use you, your, us, and we in writing arguments
• Repetition

  • Saying the words or phrase more than once promote emphasis
• Exaggeration

  • It makes something seem much better or much worse than it really is
• Imperatives

  • Used commands or instructions
• Types of Debate (LROO):

  • Lincoln-Douglas (Two-men debate)
  • Rebuttal
  • One-type Rebuttal
  • Oregon-Oxford
• Lincoln-Douglas (two-men debate)

  • A kind of debate when there is only one speaker in the affirmative as well as in the negative.
  • The speaker in the affirmative sside opens the debate then followed by the negative speech
• Rebuttal

  • Debate where each team from the affirmative and the negative side is composed of about two or three members.
  • As the debate starts, the affirmative speaker opens the constructive speech and the negative speaker starts this
  • The debate is closed with the affirmative side giving the last say.
• Oregon-Oxford

  • Considered as a modified form of the Lincoln-Douglas type of debate.
  • However, in this type of debate, there are about two to three members in both the affirmative and the negative side.
  • All of the speakers have a chance to refute the argument of the opponent with the exception of the first affirmative speaker.