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| 4851705290 | rhetoric | individual words can trigger emotions in us | 0 | |
| 4851708110 | audience appeals | method of persuading an audience through emotion, logic , or ethos | 1 | |
| 4851715585 | logos | appeal to logic, the presentation of fact and statistics | 2 | |
| 4851724423 | pathos | appeal to emotions, the quality of speech or written work that appeals to the emotions of the audience | 3 | |
| 4851730091 | ethos | the character and credibility of the writer in the eyes of the reader | 4 | |
| 4851733338 | rhetorical device | a persuasive technique used to help convince an audience | 5 | |
| 4851738465 | rhetorical question | a question with an obvious answer which is used to emphasize a writer.s main point | 6 | |
| 4851745195 | diction | the word choice and purposeful arrangement of words that affect meaning in speech or writing | 7 | |
| 4869857159 | parallelism | a pattern in which words and phrases are similar in structure, one echoing each other | 8 | |
| 4869860900 | figurative language | a non-literal use of language to suggest a specific feeling or meaning | 9 | |
| 4869869292 | simile | a type of figurative language in which two unlike things are compared using like, as, than, or resembles | 10 | |
| 4869885483 | metaphor | a type of figurative language in which one thing is said to be another thing | 11 | |
| 4869891195 | personification | a type of figurative language in which nonhuman objects are given human qualities | 12 | |
| 4869900376 | tone | the authors attitude toward a subject | 13 | |
| 4869902459 | authors purpose | the reason the author wrote or is writing about a topic | 14 | |
| 4869904596 | rationalism | the belief that reason, logic, and experience should have greater influence than emotions or religious beliegs | 15 | |
| 4928134102 | trope | a figure of speech that involves a nonliteral use of language, such as a simile, metaphor, or an understatement | 16 | |
| 4928141199 | scheme | an arrangement of words for effect that relies on the literal meaning of the words | 17 | |
| 4928150125 | anaphora | an example of parallelism in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of consecutive phrases or clauses, the purpose to create rhythm and emphasize not only the words that are repeated, but also the words that differ in each sentence | 18 | |
| 4928170424 | allusion | an implied or indirect reference to something historical, literary, religious, mythical, or popular, such as a well-known story or a famous person | 19 | |
| 4928220456 | introduction paragraph | the first paragraph in an essay; it almost always includes the main idea, claim, or thesis statement | 20 | |
| 4928229564 | body paragraph | a section of an essay in which the topics are presented and supported | 21 | |
| 4928234315 | conclusion paragraph | the final paragraph in an essay in which the writer sums up his or her argument | 22 | |
| 4928250196 | claim | an argument or point that has not yet been proved | 23 | |
| 4928321261 | evidence | information that helps to support a claim, thesis, or main idea | 24 | |
| 4928331633 | counterclaim | a claim that is in opposite to another claim | 25 | |
| 4928333254 | rebuttal | a response to a counterclaim or counter argument | 26 | |
| 4928349593 | bias | a preference that often detracts from a person's ability to be objective | 27 | |
| 4928368612 | transition | in writing, a word or group of words that helps a reader move from one idea to the next ( and, in addition, furthermore, although, in contrast, to illustrate, as a result, next) | 28 | |
| 4928410512 | context | a part of a text that surrounds a word or passage and helps to determine its meaning | 29 | |
| 4928414476 | connotation | everything a word suggests or implies, the feeling a word gives you | 30 | |
| 4928421179 | denotation | the most direct or literal meaning of a word, a words definition | 31 | |
| 4928465729 | aphorism | a brief statement of principles and truth | 32 | |
| 4928467176 | metonymy | a literary device in which an idea or concept is substituted for closely related words or concept | 33 |
