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| 5918946006 | Tone | The rhetor's attitude toward his/her subject and audience | 0 | |
| 5918946007 | Syntax | The way a sentence is arranged in a manner that is clear for rhetor's audience | 1 | |
| 5918986154 | Diction | The rhetor's word choice | 2 | |
| 5918986155 | Logos | The appeal to logic | 3 | |
| 5918986156 | Ethos | The appeal to the rhetor's credibility | 4 | |
| 5918986157 | Pathos | The appeal to emotions | 5 | |
| 5972930943 | Rhetorical Triangle | (Left) Purpose or Message Appeal to Logos (Top) Writer/Speaker Appeal to Ethos (Right) Audience Appeal to Pathos | 6 | |
| 6001806946 | Hyperbole | overstatement or exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis | 7 | |
| 6001810445 | Understatement | express an idea as less important than it actually is, either for ironic emphasis or highlight the extreme nature of the event | 8 | |
| 6001816449 | Litotes | a form of understatement that uses the word opposite to the condition for ironic effect | 9 | |
| 6001825081 | Hypophora | raising one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them | 10 | |
| 6001832427 | Rhetorical Question | a question is asked just for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected | 11 | |
| 6001840715 | Procatalepsis | anticipating an objection and answering it | 12 | |
| 6001845643 | Analogy | Uses something that is well known in order to explain something that is less well known | 13 | |
| 6001870752 | Allusion | reference to a person, place, thing that is well known. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers to. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in the | 14 | |
| 6111511197 | Parrellellism | Using the same structure for multiple parts of a sentence and keeps your writing balanced and intentional throughout. Useful for keeping long lists understandable or making parenthetical comments less cumbersome. Verb and adverb | 15 | |
| 6111511198 | Chiasmus | A form of parrellellism that flips the original form around. adverb and verb | 16 | |
| 6111522810 | Simile | The writer compares two things that are somewhat related or barely related using LIKE or AS | 17 | |
| 6111545137 | Metaphor | Comparing two things without using LIKE or AS. The rhetor's speaks of one thing as if it were something else | 18 | |
| 6113659256 | Anaphora | The writer repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence | 19 | |
| 6113659257 | Epistrophe | A word or phrase is repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences. | 20 | |
| 6113659258 | Symploce | Combines both epistrophe and anaphora. Ex. We enjoy life when we know ourselves to be free of temptation and sin, but we enjoy life also when we give ourselves completely to temptation and sin | 21 | |
| 6249463732 | Asyndeton | Leaves out conjuctions in a list or between clauses. Ex. He was tall,dark,handsome. Emphasizes | 22 | |
| 6249508518 | Polysyndeton | Puts a conjuction between every item in a list or between clauses. Ex. We have an army and soldiers and tanls and planes. | 23 | |
| 6249508519 | Zeugma | Unexpected items in a sentence are linked together by a shared word. | 24 | |
| 6249508520 | Synecdoche | The use of a part of somehing to represent the whole. Ex. The captain shouted "All hands on deck" | 25 | |
| 6249508521 | Metonymy | Refering to something closely related to the actual object and use it as a way to refer to the object itself | 26 | |
| 6779614383 | irony | a situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens | 27 |
