7469188101 | Speaker | The person who creates the text | 0 | |
7469188102 | Subject | The topic of the text | 1 | |
7469188103 | Audience | The listener, viewer, or reader, of a text | 2 | |
7469188104 | Context | The circumsrances, events, atmosphere and atttudes surrounding the text | 3 | |
7469188105 | Logos | Appeal to logic reasoning | 4 | |
7469188106 | Pathos | Apoeal go emotion | 5 | |
7469188107 | Ethos | Appeal to credibility and trustworthiness of speaker | 6 | |
7469188108 | Anaphora | Repetition of words at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses | 7 | |
7469188109 | Epistrophe | Repetition of words at the end of the successive phrases or clauses | 8 | |
7469188110 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting words/ideas in parallel structure | 9 | |
7469188111 | Rhetorical question | How does the author use rhetorical strategies to acheive his/her purpose | 10 | |
7509139156 | Rhetorical triangle | These three persuasive strategies make up the rhetorical triangle. | 11 | |
7509139157 | Persona | the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others | 12 | |
7509139158 | Thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or prove | 13 | |
7509139159 | genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. | 14 | |
7509139160 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 15 | |
7509139161 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 16 | |
7509139162 | Imagery | visual images collectively | 17 | |
7509139163 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 18 | |
7509139164 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 19 | |
7509139165 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 20 | |
7509139166 | Similie | Comparison using like or as | 21 | |
7509139167 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 22 | |
7509171795 | Rhetoric | The art of persuasion, an authors purposful shaping of text to produce a desired effect | 23 |
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