3461875903 | Rhetorical situation | Paps persona audience purpose linguistic argumentative strategies | 0 | |
3461875904 | Rhetoric | Art of persuasion | 1 | |
3461875905 | Types of arguments | Definition causation ethics evaluation proposal | 2 | |
3461875906 | Types of support | Stats facts authority examples anecdotes narrative | 3 | |
3461875907 | Types of appeals | Logos pathos ethos | 4 | |
3461875908 | Claim | Controversial and debatable statement. Can get a good question from it | 5 | |
3461875909 | Counterclaim | Claim opposite mine Concession refutation demonstration of irrelevance | 6 | |
3461875910 | Rebuttal | How one deals with opponents counterclaim | 7 | |
3461875911 | Antanagoge | Concession placing unavoidable negative next to a positive | 8 | |
3461875912 | Procatalepsis Not on test | Refutation bring up flaws on your side for the purpose of enhancing persona. Also irrelevance. It doesn't apply because... | 9 | |
3461875913 | Warrent | Reasons. Connects top to bottom GAS CAP Generality analogy sign causation authority principle | 10 | |
3461875914 | Backing | Support for warrent | 11 | |
3461875915 | Premise | Declarative statement to prove or support the point of the argument | 12 | |
3461875916 | Major premise | Higher on ladder than the minor | 13 | |
3461875917 | Conclusion | The idea that the premise is designed to prove....Therefore | 14 | |
3461875918 | Syllogism | Deductive reasoning | 15 | |
3461875919 | Deductive reasoning | Major to minor premise. If the principle is agreed. Everything under must be true | 16 | |
3461875920 | Inductive reasoning | Scientific method. Probably true. Specific to general. Evidence to conclusion. | 17 | |
3461875921 | Causation | X leads to y | 18 | |
3461875922 | Correlation | X results in y because of z. Third party causes the other two | 19 | |
3461875923 | Analogy | Extended simily. Take something complicated and explain with simplistic terms | 20 | |
3461875924 | Sign | Some evidence is symptomatic of a wider principal | 21 | |
3461875925 | Anecdotal evidence | Persons story to support a claim. One instance is bad. Lots is proof | 22 | |
3461875926 | Authority | Must be justified to carry evidential weight | 23 | |
3461875927 | Polysyndeton | When conjunctions are placed in between every element in a series | 24 | |
3461875928 | Rhetorical | Question asked when answer is obvious | 25 | |
3461875929 | Andiplosis | The last word repeated as the first in sentences or phrases | 26 | |
3461875930 | Antithesis | Contrasting any of the different parts of a statement | 27 | |
3461875931 | Juxtaposition | Two subjects side by side to compare and contrast | 28 | |
3461875932 | Zeugma | Two elements in a sentence are linked by a governing third in a suggestive way. I drank of her .... | 29 | |
3461875933 | Chiasmus | Parallelism that flips the original form around ab is ba. U have seen a man made a slave now u shall see a slave made a man | 30 | |
3461875934 | Tropes | Irony. Opposite of what is expected 5 types. Romantic situational verbal dramatic structural | 31 | |
3461875935 | Structural irony | When the genre doesn't match the form of something | 32 | |
3461875936 | Dramatic irony | When audience knows what characters don't | 33 | |
3461875937 | Verbal irony | What is said is not what is meant. Sarcasm or what an ugly doggy | 34 | |
3461875938 | Situational irony | What happens is not what was expected. Guy terrified of planes. Rides once and it crashes | 35 | |
3461875939 | Romantic irony | Audience or reader is deceived by person telling story. | 36 | |
3462244348 | Diction | Word choice | 37 | |
3462244349 | Denotation | Objective definition of a word | 38 | |
3462244350 | Connotation | Emotional power a word has | 39 | |
3462244351 | Semantics | Study of meanings of words | 40 | |
3462244352 | Euphemisms | Language used to hide reality or change the way we view reality. Softens the sound of language | 41 | |
3462244353 | Litotes | Emphasizes point by using a word opposite to the condition. Irony sarcasm. Not the smallest consideration to a hungry man | 42 | |
3462244354 | Mode | Genre is what is written about. Mode is how it is written | 43 | |
3462244355 | Motif | Reoccuring element in a work of art. Theme symbol imagry | 44 | |
3462244356 | Archetype | A symbol that transcends time and culture. Tree | 45 | |
3462244357 | Paradox | Two contradicting statements that present the truth. Your never more alive than when your almost dead | 46 | |
3462244358 | Apostrophy | Character addresses an object or some entity that cannot respond | 47 | |
3462244359 | Characature | Exaggeration of a distinct feature | 48 | |
3462244360 | Satire | Used to cause change through ridicule | 49 | |
3462244361 | Horation satire | Pokes fun with an indulgent tone | 50 | |
3462244362 | Jurenalian satire | Denounces human vice in a severe tone | 51 | |
3462244363 | Parody | Imitative use of the words, style, attitude, tone and ideas of an author genre or style in such a way as to make them ridiculous | 52 | |
3462244364 | Understatement | Rhetorical form in which the force of a descriptive statement is less than one would expect | 53 | |
3462244365 | Genre | Type of writing based on category or branch | 54 | |
3462244366 | Contunuum | Not black or white. Somewhere in the middle | 55 | |
3462244367 | Pragmatism | Practical. Act for a direct outcome | 56 | |
3462244368 | Idealism | Lofty goal sometimes without a tangible result. Looking for ideal | 57 | |
3462244369 | Context | The situation in which something occurs | 58 | |
3462244370 | Ubiquitous | Seemingly everywhere | 59 | |
3462244371 | Explicit | When a message or meaning is directly apparent | 60 | |
3462244372 | Implicit | When the moral meaning is suggested | 61 | |
3462244373 | Fetters | Shackles chains | 62 | |
3545035820 | Epograph | Writing on the outside | 63 | |
3547845429 | Allusuon | Referring to another stuff historical | 64 | |
3547845430 | Modes | Exemplifications Narrative Anicdotal | 65 | |
3548609943 | Didactic | Writing that's meant to teach but can be negative and dirogatory. Over preachy teachy | 66 | |
3548609944 | Red herring | Bring up an unrelated answer | 67 | |
3549908484 | Loaded question | Do u still beat your wife | 68 | |
3549908485 | Ad hominem | Attack person | 69 | |
3549908486 | Appeal to emotions | ... | 70 | |
3549908487 | False analogy | ... | 71 | |
3549908488 | Ad hominem tu quoque | Hypocracy | 72 | |
3549923786 | Types of writing | Synthesis Argumentative Analysis | 73 | |
3549923787 | Types of a topic sentence not on test | Specific subject and detailed claims | 74 | |
3549923788 | Parts of coherence | Transitions Reminder of topic sentence Explanation of support | 75 | |
3574038704 | Post hawk | A resulted in b so a equals b | 76 | |
3574038705 | Thin entering wedge | Past equals present | 77 | |
3574038706 | Slippery slope | Present equals future | 78 |
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