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| 7538459166 | audience | listener, view, or reader of a text | 0 | |
| 7538461000 | concession | an acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. | 1 | |
| 7538469232 | connotation | meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 2 | |
| 7538475713 | Context | circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text | 3 | |
| 7538480518 | Counterargument | an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward. | 4 | |
| 7538486613 | Ethos | speakers appeal to credibility and trustworthiness. | 5 | |
| 7538493216 | Logos | Appeal to reason, logic, and rational ideas | 6 | |
| 7538497048 | Occasion | time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 7 | |
| 7538501807 | Pathos | appeal to emotionally motivate audience | 8 | |
| 7538506279 | Persona | face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience | 9 | |
| 7538511362 | Polemic | argument that tries to establish superiority of one opinion over all others | 10 | |
| 7538519259 | Propaganda | Spread of ideas and information to further a cause | 11 | |
| 7538526161 | Purpose | Goal of speaker | 12 | |
| 7538529337 | Refutation | A denial of validity of an opposing argument. | 13 | |
| 7538534266 | Rhetoric | art of finding ways to persuade people | 14 | |
| 7538538376 | Rhetorical appeals | techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos | 15 | |
| 7538550649 | Rhetorical triangle | relationship between speaker, audience, and subject | 16 | |
| 7538557089 | SOAPS | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker | 17 | |
| 7538564208 | Speaker | person who creates a text | 18 | |
| 7538566532 | Subject | topic of text | 19 | |
| 7538568509 | Text | written word | 20 | |
| 7538578371 | Alliteration | repetition of same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence | 21 | |
| 7538583337 | Allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place | 22 | |
| 7538587255 | Anaphora | repetition of word or phrase at beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 23 | |
| 7538595257 | anitmetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | 24 | |
| 7538602273 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in parallel construction | 25 | |
| 7538607255 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 26 | |
| 7538612451 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 27 | |
| 7538620444 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes main idea at beginning of sentence and then builds and adds on | 28 | |
| 7538627917 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 29 | |
| 7538632931 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 30 | |
| 7538636535 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence | 31 | |
| 7538639458 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 32 | |
| 7538647132 | metaphor | compare two things without using like or as | 33 | |
| 7538649744 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 34 | |
| 7538656693 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 35 | |
| 7538662805 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 36 | |
| 7538669179 | synedoche | use a part to represent the whole | 37 | |
| 7538671915 | zeugma | use of two different words in grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 38 | |
| 7538691687 | ad hominem | switching argument from issue at hand to character of the other speaker | 39 | |
| 7538697633 | bandwagon appeal | occurs when evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it" | 40 | |
| 7538702870 | appeal to false authority | occurs when someone with no expertise speaks on an issue | 41 | |
| 7538710937 | argument | a process of reasoned inquiry | 42 | |
| 7538719076 | backing | further assurances or data without assumption lacks authority | 43 | |
| 7538725443 | begging the question | claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt | 44 | |
| 7538729814 | circular reasoning | writer repeats claim as a way to provide evidence | 45 | |
| 7538736507 | claim | states argument or main idea | 46 | |
| 7538739036 | claim of fact | asserts that something is true or not true | 47 | |
| 7538742351 | claim of policy | proposes change | 48 | |
| 7538744887 | claim of value | argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable | 49 | |
| 7538749669 | classical oration: -introduction -narration -confirmation -refutation -conclusion | five-part argument structure used by classical rhetoricians | 50 | |
| 7538762956 | closed thesis | statement of main idea of argument that previews major points writer intends to make | 51 | |
| 7538769951 | deduction | logical process whereby one reaches a conclusion by starting general principle or universal truth and applying it to specific case | 52 | |
| 7538779084 | either/or | speaker presents two extreme options as only possible choice | 53 | |
| 7538784966 | faulty analogy | analogy compares two things that are not comparable | 54 | |
| 7538792848 | first-hand evidence | evidence based on something the writer knows, whether it's from personal experience, observations, and general knowledge | 55 | |
| 7538802907 | hasty generalization | faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence | 56 | |
| 7538810496 | induction | logical process whereby the writer reasons from particulars to universals, using specific cases in order to draw conclusion | 57 | |
| 7538818444 | logical fallacy | potential vulnerabilities or weaknesses in an argument | 58 | |
| 7538823517 | open thesis | does not list all points the writer intends to cover in essay | 59 | |
| 7538828954 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier | 60 | |
| 7538840327 | qualifier | uses words like usually, probably, maybe, and most likely to temper claim, making it less absolute | 61 | |
| 7538848731 | rebuttal | voices objections | 62 | |
| 7538851876 | reservation | explains terms and conditions necessitated by qualifier | 63 | |
| 7538862438 | rogerian arguments | arguments based on assumption that having a full understanding of an opposing position is essential to responding to it persuasively and refuting it | 64 | |
| 7538870831 | second-hand evidence | evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation | 65 | |
| 7538877134 | straw man | speaker chooses deliberately poor or oversimplified example | 66 | |
| 7538885019 | syllogism | logical structure that uses major premise and minor premise to reach necessary conclusion | 67 | |
| 7538902015 | Toulmin model | approach to analyzing and constructing arguments | 68 | |
| 7538894614 | warrant | expresses assumption necessarily shared by speaker and audience | 69 |
