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| 8199446914 | Audience | the intended reader of a piece | 0 | |
| 8199446915 | Concession | An acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable | 1 | |
| 8199446916 | Connotation | Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 2 | |
| 8199714850 | Context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. | 3 | |
| 8199714851 | Counterargument | An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward. | 4 | |
| 8199714852 | Ethos | Speaker's credibility | 5 | |
| 8199714853 | Logos | Using specific details, examples, facts, statistics. | 6 | |
| 8199714854 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 7 | |
| 8199714855 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 8 | |
| 8199714856 | Persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. | 9 | |
| 8199714857 | polemic | an aggressive argument against a specific opinion | 10 | |
| 8199714858 | Propaganda | The spread of ideas and information to further a cause | 11 | |
| 8199714859 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 12 | |
| 8199714860 | Refutation | A denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 13 | |
| 8199714861 | Rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively | 14 | |
| 8199714862 | rhetoric appeals | ethos, logos, pathos. Used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling | 15 | |
| 8199714863 | rhetorical triangle (Aristotelian triangle) | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 16 | |
| 8199714864 | SOAPS | A mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker. | 17 | |
| 8199714865 | Speaker | The person or group who creates a text | 18 | |
| 8199948225 | subject | the topic of a text | 19 | |
| 8199948226 | Text | While this term generally means the written word, in the humanities it has to come to mean any cultural product that can be "read"- meaning not just consumed, but investigated. This includes fiction, nonfiction,poetry, political cartoons, fine art, photography, fashion, culture trends. | 20 | |
| 8199948227 | Audience | Gehrig's _______ was his teammates and fans in the stadium that day, but it was also the teams he played against, the fans listening on the radio, and posterity—us. | 21 | |
| 8199948228 | concession | Lou Gehrig concedes what some of his listeners may think- that his bad break is a cause for discouragement or despair | 22 | |
| 8199948229 | Connotation | The cat is plump. The cat is fat. The cat is obese. | 23 | |
| 8199948230 | Context | The _________ speech is his | 24 |
