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| 5408802745 | audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom text is addressed | 0 | |
| 5408802746 | concession | An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent's point | 1 | |
| 5408802747 | connotation | An implied meaning of a word | 2 | |
| 5408802748 | context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 3 | |
| 5408802749 | counterargument | An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward | 4 | |
| 5408802750 | ethos | An appeal to an audience's sense of morality/trust; Achieved by projecting an image of credibility which supports the speaker's position | 5 | |
| 5408802751 | logos | An appeal based on logic or reason | 6 | |
| 5408802752 | occasion | The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 7 | |
| 5408802753 | pathos | An appeal to emotion | 8 | |
| 5408802754 | persona | The face or character that a speaker shows to his/her audience | 9 | |
| 5408802755 | polemic | Controversial argument, esp. one attacking a specific idea | 10 | |
| 5408802756 | propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 11 | |
| 5408802757 | purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 12 | |
| 5408802758 | refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 13 | |
| 5408802759 | rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively | 14 | |
| 5408802760 | rhetorical appeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. The three major appeals are to ethos (character), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion) | 15 | |
| 5408802761 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle) | 16 | |
| 5408802762 | speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a text | 17 | |
| 5408802763 | subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of text | 18 | |
| 5408802764 | text | Any cultural product that can be "read", meaning consumed, comprehended, and investigated. Fiction, Nonfiction, poetry, speeches, fine art, cartoons, cultural trends, performances, etc | 19 | |
| 5408802765 | tone | Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices (diction, syntax, rhetorical devices) | 20 | |
| 5408802766 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. | 21 | |
| 5408802767 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 22 | |
| 5408802768 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. | 23 | |
| 5408802769 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order. | 24 | |
| 5408802770 | antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses. | 25 | |
| 5408802771 | archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 26 | |
| 5408802772 | asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions. | 27 | |
| 5408802773 | cumulative sentence | A sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases (main clause is at the beginning). | 28 | |
| 5408802774 | hortative sentence | A sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action. | 29 | |
| 5408802775 | imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 30 | |
| 5408802776 | inversion | The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. | 31 | |
| 5408802777 | juxtaposition | Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast. | 32 | |
| 5408802778 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared, does not use like or as. | 33 | |
| 5408802779 | oxymoron | A compact paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict each other. | 34 | |
| 5408802780 | parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 35 | |
| 5408802781 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 36 | |
| 5408802782 | personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 37 | |
| 5408802783 | rhetorical question | A figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 38 | |
| 5408802784 | synecdoche | A rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part. | 39 | |
| 5408802785 | zeugma | The use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings. | 40 |
