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| 14589848486 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 0 | |
| 14589848487 | audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 1 | |
| 14589848488 | concession | used in argumentative writing, where one acknowledges a point made by one's opponent | 2 | |
| 14589848489 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 3 | |
| 14589848490 | context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. | 4 | |
| 14589848491 | counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 5 | |
| 14589848492 | ethos | credibility | 6 | |
| 14589848493 | logos | Appeal to logic | 7 | |
| 14589848494 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 8 | |
| 14589848495 | pathos | Appeal to emotions | 9 | |
| 14589848496 | persona | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 10 | |
| 14589848497 | polemic | controversy; argument; verbal attack | 11 | |
| 14589848498 | propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 12 | |
| 14589848499 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 13 | |
| 14589848500 | refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 14 | |
| 14589848501 | rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and personal | 15 | |
| 14589848502 | rhetorical appeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. The three major appeals are to ethos (character), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion). | 16 | |
| 14589848503 | SOAPS | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker | 17 | |
| 14589848504 | speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 18 | |
| 14589848505 | subject | The topic of a text. What the text is about. | 19 | |
| 14589848506 | the text | While this term generally means the written word, in the humanities it has come to mean any cultural product that can be "read" - meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated. This includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, political cartoons, fine art, photography, performances, fashion, cultural trends, and much more. | 20 | |
| 14589848507 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant soundscapes | 21 | |
| 14589848508 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 22 | |
| 14589848509 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 23 | |
| 14589848510 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 24 | |
| 14589848511 | antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 25 | |
| 14589848512 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 26 | |
| 14589848513 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses. | 27 | |
| 14589848514 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 28 | |
| 14589848515 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 29 | |
| 14589848516 | imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 30 | |
| 14589848517 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 31 | |
| 14589848518 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 32 | |
| 14589848519 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 33 | |
| 14589848520 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 34 | |
| 14589848521 | parralelism | the repetition of words or phases that have similar grammatical structures | 35 | |
| 14589848522 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 36 | |
| 14589848523 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 37 | |
| 14589848524 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 38 | |
| 14589848525 | synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 39 | |
| 14589848526 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 40 | |
| 14589848527 | active voice | The subject of the sentence performs the action | 41 | |
| 14589848528 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or personal | 42 | |
| 14589848529 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or personal | 43 | |
| 14589848530 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of wordsmith | 44 | |
| 14589848531 | colloquial | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | 45 | |
| 14589848532 | denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 46 | |
| 14589848533 | jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 47 | |
| 14589848534 | vernacular | everyday language | 48 | |
| 14589848535 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 49 | |
| 14589848536 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 50 | |
| 14589848537 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 51 | |
| 14589848538 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 52 | |
| 14589848539 | situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 53 | |
| 14589848540 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 54 | |
| 14589848541 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 55 | |
| 14589848542 | pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | 56 | |
| 14589848543 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 57 | |
| 14589848544 | syntax | Sentence structure | 58 | |
| 14589848545 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 59 |
