10915027127 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
10915027128 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 1 | |
10915027129 | Antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 2 | |
10915027130 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 3 | |
10915027131 | concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 4 | |
10915027132 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 5 | |
10915027133 | context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 6 | |
10915027134 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 7 | |
10915027135 | Ethos | credibility | 8 | |
10915027136 | Exemplification | showing by example | 9 | |
10915027137 | Logos | facts | 10 | |
10915027138 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 11 | |
10915027139 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 12 | |
10915027140 | Persona | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 13 | |
10915027141 | polemic | an aggressive argument against a specific opinion | 14 | |
10915027142 | Propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. | 15 | |
10915027143 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 16 | |
10915027144 | Refutation | The part of an argument wherein a speaker or writer anticipates and counters opposing points of view. | 17 | |
10915027145 | Rhetoric | effective writing or speaking | 18 | |
10915027146 | SOAPS | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker | 19 | |
10915027147 | Speaker | the voice of the poem | 20 | |
10915027148 | subject | The topic of a text. What the text is about. | 21 | |
10915027149 | text | written words | 22 | |
10915027150 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 23 | |
10915027151 | visual rhetoric | The use of images as an integrated element in the total communication effort a speaker makes to achieve the speaking goal | 24 | |
10915027152 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 25 |
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