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| 4343698210 | 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 | 0 | |
| 4343698211 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 1 | |
| 4343701786 | Pathos | A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and logos). | 2 | |
| 4343701787 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 3 | |
| 4343704104 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a non-literal way; also called a figure of speech. | 4 | |
| 4343704105 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. | 5 | |
| 4343706145 | Premise | major, minor two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise. | 6 | |
| 4343708258 | Simple Sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 7 | |
| 4343710352 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 8 | |
| 4343711790 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 9 | |
| 4343711791 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 10 | |
| 4343711792 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 11 | |
| 4343713259 | Rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. | 12 | |
| 4343713260 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 13 | |
| 4343715419 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle). | 14 | |
| 4591821493 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work may be explicit or implicit. | 15 | |
| 4591823007 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 16 |
