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| 7220498576 | Rhetoric | Rhetoric is the study of effective speaking and writing | 0 | |
| 7220499049 | Kairos | the way a given context for communication both calls for and constrains one's speech | 1 | |
| 7220499628 | Decorum | A central rhetorical principle requiring one's words and subject matter be aptly fit to each other, to the circumstances and occasion, the audience, and the speaker. | 2 | |
| 7220500658 | Audience | those who will hear or read | 3 | |
| 7220501794 | Persuasive/Rhetorical Apeals | Reason to believe | 4 | |
| 7220517212 | Ethos | persuasive appeal of one's character | 5 | |
| 7220516793 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 6 | |
| 7220516794 | Logos | appeal to reason | 7 | |
| 7220516322 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same letter or sound within nearby words | 8 | |
| 7220516323 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines | 9 | |
| 7220515287 | Antithesis | Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas | 10 | |
| 7220515288 | Asyndecton | The omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect | 11 | |
| 7220510743 | Epistrophe | Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words | 12 | |
| 7220510352 | Hyperbole | Rhetorical exaggeration | 13 | |
| 7220509732 | Irony | Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest | 14 | |
| 7220508495 | Litotes | Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite | 15 | |
| 7220508496 | Metonymy | Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes | 16 | |
| 7220507969 | Oxymoron | Placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another | 17 | |
| 7220507345 | Paradox | A statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless | 18 | |
| 7220507087 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 19 | |
| 7220506504 | Polysyndeton | any question asked for a purpose other than to obtain the information the question asks | 20 | |
| 7220505823 | Rhetorical Question | any question asked for a purpose other than to obtain the information the question asks | 21 | |
| 7220504863 | Sarcasm | Use of mockery, verbal taunts, or bitter irony | 22 | |
| 7220504864 | Synecdoche | A whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice versa. | 23 | |
| 7220504614 | Zeugma | term describing when one part of speech governs two or more other parts of a sentence | 24 |
