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| 14502972487 | Rhetoric | the art of using words effectively in writing or speaking so as to influence of persuade. | 0 | |
| 14556862053 | Mnemonics | for analyzing texts | 1 | |
| 14556863554 | SoapStone - Used to analyze texts | S-Subject : what is the topic of the text ? O-Occasion: why is the speech being delivered or passage written? Is it a special event? A-Audience: With who is the writer or speaker communicating? How do you know ? Which words tell you? Purpose: what is the audience supposed to do? What lesson should they learn? How is the audience supposed to feel at the end? S-Speaker: (or author) is the speaker a reliable person to discuss this topic? What qualifications does he or she possess? T-Tone: What is the tone or attitude of the speaker or author towards the subject ? | 2 | |
| 14556876673 | Smell- used analyze advertising or other persuasive texts. | S- Sender-receiver relationship: Who is the target audience? Why is the sender using this language and/or these images? M-Message: summarize the statements made. E-Effect: What is the desired effect? What does the author want the reader to do ? L-Logic: What type of reasoning is at work? Consider images as well as words. Ho does its presence or absence affect the message? L-Language: How does the language of the text affect the meaning? How does it make the text more effective? Remember to consider images as well as words. | 3 | |
| 14556896314 | Didls- used when considering descriptive passages | D-Diction : Which words does the author use that are unusual or effective? I-Images: What specific images does the write enable you to envision clearly? Details: Which details- visual, auditory, etc, does the writer develop to help develop his main idea? L-Language: What do you notice about the ay the author puts the sentences together? Is it simple? Complicated? Is the author writing for people who know a lot or a little about the topic already? S-Syntax: Does the length of the sentence affect the topic? Does it affect the way you react? | 4 | |
| 14557032244 | Ad hominem fallacy | (Latin for " to the man") A fallacy of logic in which a person's character or motive is attacked instead of that person's argument | 5 | |
| 14557039106 | Ad populum fallacy | Latin for "to the crowd") A fallacy of logic in which the widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make it true of right. | 6 | |
| 14557046390 | Allegory | a story in which the people, places, and things represent general concepts or moral qualities. | 7 | |
| 14557052596 | Analogy | a comparison between two things in which the more complex is explained in terms of the more simple. | 8 | |
| 14557057448 | Anecdote | a short entertaining account of some happening, frequently personal or biographical | 9 | |
| 14557061049 | anticlimax | a sudden drop from the dignified or important in thought or expression to the commonplace or trivial, often for humorous effect. | 10 | |
| 14557066052 | Appeal to Authority | citation of information from people recognized for their special knowledge of a subject for the purpose of strengthening a speaker or writer's arguments. | 11 | |
| 14557070593 | Argumentation | exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it: persuasion through reason. | 12 | |
| 14557078599 | Begging the question | a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove. | 13 | |
| 14557081829 | Cause and effect | examination of the causes and/or effects of a situation or phenomenon. | 14 | |
| 14557083625 | Chronological ordering | arrangement in the order in which things occur; may move from past to present or in reverse chronological order, from present to past. | 15 | |
| 14557100491 | Classification as a means of ordering | arrangement of objects according to class. | 16 | |
| 14557104541 | Colloquial expression | words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing. | 17 | |
| 14557107102 | Damming with faint praise | intentional se of a positive statement that has a negative implication. | 18 | |
| 14557111472 | deduction | a form of reasoning that begins with a generalization, then applies the generalization to a specific case or cases; opposite to induction. | 19 | |
| 14557115641 | digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speaking or writing. | 20 | |
| 14557121140 | Ellipsis | in grammar, the omission of a word or words necessary for complete construction but understood in context. (...) | 21 | |
| 14557124813 | Euphemism | the use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another. | 22 | |
| 14557129851 | expository writing | writing that explains or analyzes. | 23 | |
| 14557137358 | False dilemma | a fallacy of logical argument which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered, and all but one are assessed and deemed impossible or unacceptable | 24 | |
| 14557140234 | Hyperbole | an extravagant exaggeration of fact, used either for serious or comic effect. | 25 | |
| 14557143498 | Imagery | lively descriptions which impress the images of things upon the mind; figures of speech | 26 | |
| 14557149009 | Induction | a form of reasoning which works from a body of fact to the formulation of a generalization; opposite to deduction; frequently used as the principal form of reasoning in science and history. | 27 | |
| 14557154701 | Inverted syntax | reversing the normal word order of a sentence Irony- a method of humorous or sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning f the words is the opposite of their usual meaning | 28 | |
| 14557158616 | Litoes | in rhetoric, a figure in which an affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary. | 29 | |
| 14557162653 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as though it were that thing. | 30 | |
| 14557167022 | non sequitur | statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it. | 31 | |
| 14557170308 | Order of importance | a method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics. | 32 | |
| 14557171642 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combined. | 33 | |
| 14557174636 | Parable | a short story from which a lesson may be drawn; Christ used the parable to teach his followers moral truth. | 34 | |
| 14557183813 | Parallel syntactic structures | using the same part of speech or syntactic structure in each element of a series before and after coordinating conjunction ( and , but, yet, or, for, nor) and after each of a pair of correlative conjunction (not only but also, neither...nor,both..an,etc. | 35 | |
| 14557191740 | Paradox | a statement which seems self-contradictory, but which may be true in fact. | 36 | |
| 14557198788 | Parody | a literary composition which imitates the characteristic style of a serious work or writer and uses its features to treat trivial nonsensical material in an attempt at humor or satire. | 37 | |
| 14557202717 | pedantry | a display of narrow minded and trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms. | 38 | |
| 14557208456 | personification | a figure of speech in which and inanimate object or abstract concept is endowed with human attributes | 39 | |
| 14557214744 | Periodic sentence structure | a sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end. | 40 | |
| 14557219759 | Persuasion | taking a single position for the purpose of getting others to accept that position; may appeal to emotion or reason. | 41 | |
| 14557224015 | Point of view | the way in which something is viewed or considered by a writer or speaker; in fiction, it is the relationship assumed between the teller of a story and the characters in it, usually demonstrated by the author's use of either first or third person. | 42 | |
| 14557233045 | Post hoc fallacy | (from the Latin; post hoc, ergo propter hoc meaning "after this therefore because of this"). This fallacy of logic occurs when the writer assume that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident | 43 | |
| 14557243400 | Rhetorical question | a question asked for rhetorical effect to emphasize a point, no answer being expected | 44 | |
| 14557255819 | Satire | a literary work in which vices, abuses, absurdities, etc., are geld up to ridicule and contempt; use of ridicule, sarcasm, irony, etc. to expose vices, abuses, etc. | 45 | |
| 14557264607 | simile | a figure of speech involving a comparison using like or as | 46 | |
| 14557270241 | Spatial ordering | organization of information using spatial cues such as top to bottom, left to right, etc | 47 | |
| 14557274888 | Syllogism | a form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them; a form of deductive reasoning | 48 | |
| 14557283608 | Symbol | something that stands for another thing; frequently an object used to represent and abstraction | 49 | |
| 14557287329 | Syntax | in grammar, the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship. | 50 | |
| 14557290097 | Tone | a way of wording or expressing things that expresses an attitude. | 51 | |
| 14557294287 | Understatement | deliberately representing something as much less than it really is. | 52 |
