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| 10561231058 | speaker | the person or group who creates a text | 0 | |
| 10561236440 | stance | a speaker's attitude toward the audience | 1 | |
| 10561246665 | straw man | A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea. | 2 | |
| 10561250353 | subject | The topic of a text. What the text is about. | 3 | |
| 10561252562 | Syllogism | a logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion | 4 | |
| 10561258642 | Synecdoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 5 | |
| 10561260578 | Syntax | the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 6 | |
| 10561266144 | synthesize | combining two or more ideas in order to create something more complex in support of a new idea | 7 | |
| 10561273637 | 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. | 8 | |
| 10561275247 | Tone | A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. | 9 | |
| 10561280186 | Toulmin Model | An approach to analyzing and constructing arguments created by British philosopher Stephen Toulmin. | 10 | |
| 10561285096 | Trope | Artful diction; from the Greek word for "turning," a figure of speech such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, metonymy, or synecdoche. | 11 | |
| 10561288366 | Understatement | a figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, good, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect. | 12 | |
| 10561302213 | warrant | In the Toulmin model, the warrant expresses the assumption necessarily shared by the speaker and the audience. | 13 | |
| 10561305741 | wit | In rhetoric, the use of laughter, humor, irony, and satire in the confirmation or refutation of an argument. | 14 | |
| 10561309729 | Zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 15 |
