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4817947834Aristotelian TriangleA diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between speaker, audience, and subject in *determining* a *text*0
4817947835AudienceThe listener, reader, or viewer of a text1
4817947836ConcessionAn *acknowledgement* that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable2
4817947837ConnotationMeanings or Associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation.3
4817947838ContextThe circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and *events* surrounding a *text*4
4817947839CounterargumentAn *opposing* argument to the one that a writer is putting forward.5
4817947840OccasionThe time and place a speech is given or a piece is written.6
4817947841PersonaGreek for "mask". The face or character that a *speaker* shows to his audience.7
4817947842PolemicGreek for "Hostile". An aggressive argument the superiority of one opinion over all others.8
4817947843PropagandaThe spread of Ideas or Information to *further* a cause.9
4817947844PurposeThe goal the speaker wants to achieve10
4817947845RefutationA denial of the validity of an opposing argument11
4817947846Rhetorical AppealsRhetorical techniques used to persuade the audience by emphasising what they find most important or *compelling*12
4817947847Rhetorical TriangleA diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text13
4817947848SOAPSA mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker.14
4817947849SpeakerThe person or group who creates a text.F15
4817947850SubjectThe topic of a text16
4817947851Textany cultural product that can be "read"- meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated.17
4817947852PathosGreek for "suffering" or "experience". Speakers appeal to pathos to emotionally motivate their audience.18
4817947853EthosGreek for "Character". Speakers appeal to Ethos to demonstrate that they are Credible and Trustworthy to speak on a given topic.19
4817947854LogosGreek 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
4817947855Rhetoric"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
4817947856Greek word for logosembodied thought22
4817947857greek word for pathossuffering, experience23
4817947858greek word for ethoscharacter24
4817947859greek word for polemichostile25
4817947860greek word for personamask....... The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience.26
4817952784Rhetoric"the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." Persuasive27
4817983047TextCultural products that can be read and investigated28
4818089920AudienceThe listener, viewer, or reader of a text29
4818094544Subjecttopic30
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