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| 14664950550 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 0 | |
| 14664950551 | Kairos | The opportune time and/or place to say or do the right/appropriate thing. | 1 | |
| 14664950552 | Decorum | the use of a style that is appropriate to a subject, situation, speaker, and audience | 2 | |
| 14664951605 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 3 | |
| 14664951606 | Ethos | the ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author's credibility or character. | 4 | |
| 14664951607 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 5 | |
| 14664951608 | Logos | an appeal based on logic or reason | 6 | |
| 14664951609 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 7 | |
| 14664952533 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 8 | |
| 14664952534 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it (e.g. the Redcoats of the UK) | 9 | |
| 14664952535 | Parellelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 10 | |
| 14664952536 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase in successive phrases, clauses, or lines (often at the beginning of each, but not always) | 11 | |
| 14664952537 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 12 | |
| 14664953660 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. (e.g. deafening silence) | 13 | |
| 14664953661 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 14 | |
| 14664953662 | Antithesis | opposites in clauses, phrases, words, etc (e.g. intro to A Tale of Two Cities) | 15 | |
| 14664953663 | Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. (e.g. I'm not as young as I used to be) | 16 | |
| 14664954658 | Paradox | a rhetorical device that is made up of two opposite things and seems impossible or untrue but is actually possible or true | 17 | |
| 14664954659 | Synecdoche | a rhetorical device by which a part of something actually refers to the whole (e.g. Milwaukee beat the Lakers) | 18 |
