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| 6806378291 | PASTA | Purpose, Audience, Support, Tone, Authorial Bias | 0 | |
| 6806387631 | Aristotelian Triangle | The relationship between the author/speaker, text, and audience | 1 | |
| 6806394764 | Pathos | Appeal to the reader/listener's emotions, such as fear, anger, sentiment, patriotism | 2 | |
| 6806403295 | Logos | Appeal to the reader or listener's logic | 3 | |
| 6806408692 | Ethos | An appeal to the reader/audience by stressing the writer/speaker's trustworthiness | 4 | |
| 6806428247 | Connotative language | Word choice that does more than denote--rather, this language elicits a positive or negative feeling from the reader/listener. Loaded language that encourages judgment.. | 5 | |
| 6806451581 | Denotative Language | Neutral word choice that simply and objectively describes something. Definition. | 6 | |
| 6806461785 | Antithesis | In rhetoric when 2 opposite ideas or objects are placed side by side to create contrast: "Give me liberty or give me death." | 7 | |
| 6806490286 | Claim of value | Judgment Statement that involves taste or morality: something is either good or bad, useful or worthless, etc. | 8 | |
| 6806505389 | Claim of fact | Statement based on factual, provable evidence. Objective. | 9 | |
| 6806525357 | Claim of policy | Statement wherein one plan or action is deemed more desirable or effective than another. Policy claims typically have the words "should" or "ought." | 10 | |
| 6807801751 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art | 11 | |
| 6807817023 | Hortative sentence | Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action: let us ... | 12 | |
| 6807825849 | Imperative sentence | A command: just do it! Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country! | 13 | |
| 6807838629 | Inversion | An inverted order of words in a sentence. Like Yoda talk. "Evil he is. Divided we are. Hungry I am." | 14 | |
| 6807868173 | Juxtaposed, juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences: justaposition of sweetness and saltiness in kettlecorn makes for a delicious treat. | 15 | |
| 6807885504 | Oxymoron | Paradoxical justaposition of words that seem to contradict one another: peaceful revolution, the blind can truly see, etc. | 16 | |
| 6807899844 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 17 | |
| 6807914118 | Periodic sentence | A sentence whose main clause (an independent clause) appears right before the period. | 18 | |
| 6807926474 | Cumulative sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on. | 19 | |
| 6807940587 | Rhetorical question | A figure of speech in the form of a question posed for effect rather than for actually getting an answer. What's in your wallet? | 20 | |
| 6807953308 | Ad hominem attack | A logical fallacy or weakness in an argument that occurs when the arguer resorts to character assassination rather than a legitimate debate of ideas. | 21 | |
| 6807970909 | Ad populum | The fallacy known as the band wagon: come on! Everyone is doing it! | 22 | |
| 6807982601 | Appeal to False Authority | A fallacy in which someone famous who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority. | 23 | |
| 6808001294 | Either/or | Another fallacy in which the speaker or author argues that only two choices exist--and both are extreme | 24 | |
| 6808015752 | Straw man | A fallacy that occurs when a speaker or writer deliberately chooses an oversimplified example to ridicule or refute an opponent's idea.m | 25 | |
| 6808035219 | SOAPS | Subject Occasion. Audience Purpose Speaker | 26 | |
| 6808047769 | Polemic | An aggressive argument that refuses to concede that other arguments might have merit | 27 | |
| 6808067809 | Compound sentence | A sentence that includes at least 2 independent clauses joined by a conjunction | 28 | |
| 6808084211 | Complex sentence | A sentence that contains a Dependent and an independent clause: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." | 29 | |
| 6808105232 | Analogy | A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 30 | |
| 6808121274 | Annotation | Taking notes on a text | 31 | |
| 6808128553 | Anecdote | A brief story used to illustrate a point | 32 | |
| 6808138494 | Diction | A speaker or writer's choice of words. Archaic diction is old-fashioned or obsolete words. | 33 | |
| 6808158508 | Figurative Language | Nonliteral language that evokes strong imagery: similes, metaphors, personification, paradox, hyperbole (overstatement), understatement. Irony. | 34 | |
| 6808181450 | Hyperbolr | Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect. Nantucket!!! | 35 | |
| 6808204600 | Tone | A speaker's attitude towards her subject as conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. | 36 |
