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| 14776569245 | Rhetoric | effective writing or speaking | 0 | |
| 14776570892 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 1 | |
| 14776574236 | rhetorical appeals | ethos, pathos, logos | 2 | |
| 14776575492 | Ethos | Ethical appeal | 3 | |
| 14776579046 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 4 | |
| 14776580794 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 5 | |
| 14776590649 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 6 | |
| 14776592101 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 7 | |
| 14776595512 | Persona | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 8 | |
| 14776595513 | Diction | word choice | 9 | |
| 14776596429 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 10 | |
| 14776597780 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 11 | |
| 14776599015 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 12 | |
| 14776600852 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 13 | |
| 14776602317 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 14 | |
| 14776606353 | Antithesis | Direct opposite | 15 | |
| 14776730175 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 16 | |
| 14776730176 | argument | argument | 17 | |
| 14776730177 | Rogerian Argument | based on the assumption that having a full understanding of an opposing position is essential to responding to it persuasively | 18 | |
| 14776730178 | claim | the writer's position on an issue or problem | 19 | |
| 14776730179 | claim of fact | asserts that something is true or not true | 20 | |
| 14776730180 | claim of value | argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong | 21 | |
| 14776730181 | claim of policy | proposes a change | 22 | |
| 14776730182 | closed thesis | a statement of the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make | 23 | |
| 14776730183 | open thesis | A thesis that does not list all the points the writer intends to cover in an essay. | 24 | |
| 14776730184 | counterargument thesis | a summary of the counterargument | 25 | |
| 14776730185 | logical fallacy | a mistake in reasoning | 26 | |
| 14776730186 | Fallacy of Relevance | The premise is logically irrelevant, or unrelated, to the conclusion | 27 | |
| 14776730187 | Red Herring | something that draws attention away from the main issue | 28 | |
| 14776730188 | ad hominem fallacy | when speakers attack the person making the argument and not the argument itself | 29 | |
| 14776730189 | faulty analogy | an illogical, misleading comparison between two things | 30 | |
| 14776730190 | Fallacy of Accuracy | using evidence that is intentionally or unintentionally inaccurate | 31 | |
| 14776730191 | straw man fallacy | instead of dealing with the actual issue, it attacks a weaker version of argument | 32 | |
| 14776730192 | either/or fallacy | oversimplifying an issue as offering only two choices | 33 | |
| 14776730193 | fallacy of insufficiency | not enough evidence | 34 | |
| 14776730194 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence. | 35 | |
| 14776730195 | circular reasoning | A fallacy in which the argument repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence. | 36 | |
| 14776730196 | first-hand evidence | evidence based on something the writer knows | 37 | |
| 14776730197 | anecdote | short account of event | 38 | |
| 14776730198 | second-hand evidence | Evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. | 39 | |
| 14776730199 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | after this, therefore because of this | 40 | |
| 14776730200 | appeal to false authority | occurs when someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority | 41 | |
| 14776730201 | Quantitive evidence | Quantitative evidence includes things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers. | 42 | |
| 14776730202 | bandwagon appeal | taps into people's desire to belong | 43 | |
| 14776730203 | Induction | factual reasoning | 44 | |
| 14776730204 | deduction | reasoning down from principles | 45 | |
| 14776730205 | Toulmin Model | An approach to analyzing and constructing arguments created by British philosopher Stephen Toulmin. | 46 | |
| 14776730206 | warrant | to justify | 47 | |
| 14776730207 | assumption | a belief accepted as true | 48 | |
| 14776730208 | Backing | Support or evidence for a claim in an argument | 49 | |
| 14776730209 | qualifier | uses words like usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely to temper the claim, making it less absolute | 50 | |
| 14776730210 | reservation | a feeling of doubt about a plan or an idea | 51 | |
| 14776730211 | Rebuttal | a refutation or contradiction | 52 | |
| 14776730212 | Synthesis | combination | 53 | |
| 14776730213 | bias | prejudice | 54 | |
| 14776730214 | classical oration | five-part argument structure used by classical rhetoricians | 55 | |
| 14776730215 | introduction (exordium) | introduces the reader to the subject under discussion | 56 | |
| 14776730216 | narration(narratio) | Provides factual information and background material on the subject at hand or establishes why the subject is a problem that needs addressing. | 57 | |
| 14776730217 | confirmation (confirmatio) | Usually the major part of the text, the confirmation includes the proof needed to make the writer's case. | 58 | |
| 14776730218 | refutation (refutatio) | addresses the counterargument | 59 | |
| 14776730219 | conclusion (peroratio) | brings the essay to a close | 60 |
