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| 4840857669 | Rhetorical Triangle | The relationships, in any piece of writing or argument, between the writer, audience, and the subject. All analysis of writing is essentially an analysis of the relationships between the points on the triangle. |  | 0 |
| 4840873545 | Logos | Logical appeal | 1 | |
| 4840873546 | Ethos | Credibility/character | 2 | |
| 4840877799 | Pathos | Emotional appeal | 3 | |
| 4840878935 | Rhetoric | The art of effective communication | 4 | |
| 4840880380 | Speaker | The person delivering an argument | 5 | |
| 4840888926 | Audience | The people who hear an argument; those who you are persuade/are trying to persuade | 6 | |
| 4840894815 | Occasion | The event or situation that triggers an argument | 7 | |
| 4840899796 | Subject | What an argument is about | 8 | |
| 4840905689 | Argument | A course of reasoning meant to prove or disprove something, or convince an audience of something | 9 | |
| 4840913556 | Context | The circumstances surrounding a writing situation or argument. Includes purpose, audience, and focus | 10 | |
| 4840918482 | Counterargument | A set of reasons put forward to oppose the ideas of an argument | 11 | |
| 4840924460 | Scheme | A deviation from the ordinary pattern or arrangement of words (transference of order) | 12 | |
| 4840930054 | Trope | A deviation from the ordinary and principal meaning of a word (transference of meaning) | 13 | |
| 4840937158 | Purpose | The reason why a writer or speaker is making their argument; in an argument it is oftentimes to persuade an audience of something or manipulate the way an audience views something | 14 | |
| 4840949704 | Propaganda | Information used to promote a particular point of view | 15 | |
| 4840955426 | Pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way ("I'm reading a book on anti-gravity; it's impossible to put down!") | 16 | |
| 4840980541 | Metaphor | Making an implied comparison, not using "like" or "as" ("My feet are popsicles") | 17 | |
| 4840984720 | Simile | Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two different things ("My feet are so cold they feel like popsicles") | 18 | |
| 4840988992 | Personification | Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human ("the tired old truck groaned as it inched up the hill") | 19 | |
| 4840994247 | Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen does | 20 | |
| 4840997413 | Verbal irony | When you say something but mean the opposite. (if you were going to run eight miles and your gym teacher said it would be a "walk in the park") If verbal irony is used with a bitter tone, it is sarcasm | 21 | |
| 4841003604 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something a character does not | 22 | |
| 4841006552 | Situational Irony | Found in plots and story lines. When something happens differently than expected. Oftentimes humorous. | 23 | |
| 4841013359 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 24 | |
| 4841015027 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole (referring to a car as "wheels") | 25 | |
| 4841033767 | Metonymy | Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept ("I could not understand his tongue") | 26 | |
| 4841082546 | Oxymoron | When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox ("jumbo shrimp") | 27 | |
| 4841085872 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true ("You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get experience without a job") | 28 | |
| 4841090825 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked for effect rather than information ("Are you finished interrupting me?") | 29 | |
| 4841097376 | Onomatopoeia | The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes ("snap") | 30 | |
| 4841102125 | Litotes | A type of understatement that denies the opposite of the statement which would otherwise be used ("not bad") | 31 | |
| 4841106506 | Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of words is reversed ("Fair is foul and foul is fair") | 32 | |
| 4841115194 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words | 33 | |
| 4841124661 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds ("Refresh your zest for living") | 34 | |
| 4841135210 | Consonance | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words ("Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door") | 35 | |
| 4841146480 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row. This is deliberate and makes a writer's or speaker's point more powerful ("I came, I saw, I conquered") | 36 | |
| 4841206393 | Parallelism | Sentence structure which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns. Used to add emphasis, organization, or pacing. ("Cinderella swept the floor, dusted the mantle, and beat the rugs") | 37 | |
| 4841214757 | Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of words, phrases, or clauses ("I came, I saw, I conquered") | 38 | |
| 4841236547 | Anastrophe | The inversion of natural word order (Yoda) | 39 | |
| 4841242685 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or appropriate substitute for an unpleasant or offensive word or concept ("earthly remains" instead of "corpse") | 40 | |
| 4841250271 | Apostrophe | When a speaker addresses someone or something that isn't present, such as a person, place, object, symbol such as the moon, or abstract concept like love | 41 | |
| 4841269350 | Polysyndeton | When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions. ("I walked the dog, and fed the cat, and milked the cows") This changes the pacing/speed of the text or speech | 42 | |
| 4841281047 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, the presentation of something as less significant than it actually is | 43 | |
| 5098056526 | declarative | assertive --a statement | 44 | |
| 5098056595 | imperative | authoritative --command | 45 | |
| 5098060288 | interrogative | asks a question | 46 | |
| 5098062838 | simple sentence | one subject and one verb | 47 | |
| 5098062839 | loose sentence | details after the subject and verb --happening now | 48 | |
| 5098078923 | periodic sentence | details before the subject/verb ---reflection on a past event | 49 | |
| 5098086890 | juxtaposition | normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases placed together | 50 | |
| 5098098201 | telegraphic | sentence less than 5 words | 51 | |
| 5098100212 | medium sentence length | about 18 words | 52 | |
| 5098104870 | long and involved sentence length | over 30 words | 53 | |
| 5098120383 | balanced sentence | phrases or clauses balance each other on either side of a conjunction or semicolon | 54 |
