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| 2900085257 | Aristotelian Triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between speaker, audience, and subject in *determining* a *text* | 0 | |
| 2900115242 | Audience | The listener, reader, or viewer of a text | 1 | |
| 2900127728 | Concession | An *acknowledgement* that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable | 2 | |
| 2900144284 | Connotation | Meanings or Associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation. | 3 | |
| 2900170766 | Context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and *events* surrounding a *text* | 4 | |
| 2900178750 | Counterargument | An *opposing* argument to the one that a writer is putting forward. | 5 | |
| 2900228596 | Occasion | The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written. | 6 | |
| 2900266858 | Persona | Greek for "mask". The face or character that a *speaker* shows to his audience. | 7 | |
| 2900277946 | Polemic | Greek for "Hostile". An aggressive argument the superiority of one opinion over all others. | 8 | |
| 2900283640 | Propaganda | The spread of Ideas or Information to *further* a cause. | 9 | |
| 2902598702 | Purpose | The goal the speaker wants to achieve | 10 | |
| 2902599405 | Refutation | A denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 11 | |
| 2902610721 | Rhetorical Apeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade the audience by emphasising what they find most important or *compelling* | 12 | |
| 2902615147 | Rhetorical Triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text | 13 | |
| 2902615904 | SOAPS | A mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker. | 14 | |
| 2902617957 | Speaker | The person or group who creates a text. | 15 | |
| 2902619347 | Subject | The topic of a text | 16 | |
| 2902620691 | Text | While this term generally means the written word, in the humanities it has come to mean any *cultural product* that can be "read"- meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated. | 17 | |
| 2900242607 | Pathos | Greek for "suffering" or "experience". Speakers appeal to pathos to emotionally motivate their audience. | 18 | |
| 2900190127 | Ethos | Greek for "Character". Speakers appeal to Ethos to demonstrate that they are Credible and Trustworthy to speak on a given topic. | 19 | |
| 2900167662 | Logos | Greek for "Embodied thought". Speakers appeal to logos, or reason, *by offering clear rational ideas*, and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up. | 20 | |
| 2902602695 | Rhetoric | As Aristotle defined the term "The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion". In other words, it's the art of finding ways to persuade an audience. | 21 |
