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| 5369622317 | rhetoric | the art of effective and persuasive communication |  | 0 |
| 5369631883 | the rhetorical situation | the context in which the communication takes place | 1 | |
| 5369636121 | S.O.A.P.S. | subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and speaker | 2 | |
| 5369642904 | parallelism | use of components in a sentence that are grammatically and structurally similar | 3 | |
| 5369652756 | analogy | comparing two unlike things to show a correlation between two ideas | 4 | |
| 5369657721 | artistic proof | the author or speaker creates logical arguments based on their own research/findings | 5 | |
| 5369677192 | inartistic proof | the author or speaker uses evidence and researched facts | 6 | |
| 5369701773 | metaphor | makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share a common characteristic | 7 | |
| 5369707484 | wit | mental sharpness and inventiveness; intelligence | 8 | |
| 5369711542 | deductive reasoning | using a general fact to prove a more specific statement | 9 | |
| 5369714985 | allusion | a brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance | 10 | |
| 5369733581 | personification | where a thing, idea, or animal is given human atributes | 11 | |
| 5369737177 | rhetorical question | asked for effect or to lay emphasis on some point; no answer is expected | 12 | |
| 5369742938 | hyperbole | involves an exaggeration of ideas for sake of emphasis | 13 | |
| 5369746217 | logos | an appeal to logic through the use of evidence | 14 | |
| 5369756706 | anaphora | deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence or phrase to achieve an artistic affect | 15 | |
| 5369760688 | understatement | a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is | 16 | |
| 5369773999 | sarcasm | to speak bitterly; to say something that you do not mean | 17 | |
| 5369776749 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are joined to create an effect | 18 | |
| 5369784231 | inductive reasoning | using specific examples to prove the likelihood of a more general statement | 19 | |
| 5369787273 | asyndeton | a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunction between phrases and in a sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy | 20 | |
| 5369802884 | connotation | ideas, feelings, emotions, and images implied by a word | 21 | |
| 5369806175 | diction | the author's choice of words | 22 | |
| 5369807690 | denotation | the exact, dictionary definition of a word | 23 | |
| 5369810228 | tone | the author's attitude towards the subject | 24 | |
| 5369812511 | syllogism | a conclusion is drawn from at least two premises | 25 | |
| 5369834694 | process | showing how something occurs and/or works | 26 | |
| 5369837021 | jargon | specific words used by a certain group | 27 | |
| 5369842501 | definition | explaining what something is and/or isn't | 28 | |
| 5369848974 | description | describing a topic in detail | 29 | |
| 5369850948 | analysis | looking at parts of something and describing what they mean | 30 | |
| 5369853895 | cause/effect | a relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or others; action and reaction | 31 | |
| 5369865946 | narration | telling a story | 32 | |
| 5369869732 | begging the question | supporting your claim by restating your claim (circular reasoning) | 33 | |
| 5369874599 | straw man | oversimplifying an argument to make it easier to comprehend or refute it | 34 | |
| 5369881267 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | wrongfully claiming that one event caused another (false cause) | 35 | |
| 5369886868 | false analogy | when two subjects being compared are not similar enough for a fair comparison | 36 | |
| 5369900917 | hasty generalization | making a conclusion without enough evidence | 37 | |
| 5369903824 | red herring | attempting to change the subject to prove a point | 38 | |
| 5369908439 | ad hominem attack | attacking the person arguing, rather than their argument | 39 | |
| 5369910402 | false authority | uses authority in one field to represent authority in another | 40 | |
| 5369922227 | non sequitur argument | when an argument does not follow a logical sequence | 41 | |
| 5369924720 | false dilema | reducing a complex issue to only two option (either-or) | 42 | |
| 5369927879 | slippery slope | claiming that one action will cause a multitude of dire/drastic consequences | 43 | |
| 5369934883 | bandwagon | using the fact that other people believe something to prove a claim in an argument | 44 | |
| 5369965794 | tu quoque | "you do it too" argument (you too) | 45 | |
| 5369973755 | eqivocation | changing the meaning of a word to prove a point | 46 | |
| 5369975497 | ignoring the question | shifting focus to avoid the argument | 47 | |
| 5369984280 | ethos | an appeal to ethics and credibility | 48 | |
| 5369984281 | pathos | an appeal to emotions | 49 | |
| 5369987605 | syntax | the arrangement of words in a sentence | 50 | |
| 5369989065 | cumulative sentence | begins with standard sentence, details added on (loose sentence) | 51 | |
| 5369990627 | periodic sentence | begins with details followed by the main clause | 52 | |
| 5369994054 | anastrophe | changing the standard order of sentence components; s+v becomes v+s (inverted sentence) | 53 | |
| 5369996627 | satire | a work that criticizes an aspect of society through the use of humor and irony | 54 | |
| 5369996628 | verbal irony | when the speaker doesn't mean what they say; says one thing but means abother | 55 | |
| 5369998185 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something but the characters do not | 56 | |
| 5370000415 | situational irony | something happens and a reversal of expectations occurs | 57 | |
| 5370003466 | active voice | the subject of the sentence performs the action expressed in the verb | 58 | |
| 5370005934 | passive voice | the object of an action becomes the subject of the sentence; something is happening to the object | 59 |
