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| 10602134949 | Rhetoric | The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion | 0 | |
| 10602134950 | Occasion | The time and place a text was written or spoken | 1 | |
| 10602134951 | context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. | 2 | |
| 10602134952 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 3 | |
| 10602134953 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 4 | |
| 10602134954 | Speaker | the person or group who creates a text | 5 | |
| 10602134955 | Persona | The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. | 6 | |
| 10602134956 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 7 | |
| 10602134957 | Subject | the topic of a text | 8 | |
| 10602134958 | SOAPS | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker | 9 | |
| 10602134959 | Ethos | appeal to credibility | 10 | |
| 10602134960 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 11 | |
| 10602134961 | propagandistic | the spread of ideas and information to further a cause | 12 | |
| 10602134962 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 13 | |
| 10602134963 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 14 | |
| 10602134964 | Mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work | 15 | |
| 10602134965 | Metaphor | Comparison between unlike things without using like or and | 16 | |
| 10602134966 | Similie | a comparison between two unlike things using like or as | 17 | |
| 10602134967 | Personification | Giving a nonhuman thing human qualities | 18 | |
| 10602134968 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 19 | |
| 10602134969 | Parellelism | use of similar grammitical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance | 20 | |
| 10602134970 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 21 | |
| 10602134971 | Antithesis | exact opposite | 22 | |
| 10602134972 | compound sentence | a sentence with more than one subject or predicate. | 23 | |
| 10602134973 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 24 | |
| 10602134974 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 25 | |
| 10602134975 | inverted sentence | A sentence in which the subject follows the verb | 26 | |
| 10602134976 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 27 | |
| 10602134977 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 28 | |
| 10602134978 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 29 | |
| 10602134979 | argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 30 | |
| 10602134980 | claim | the writer's position on an issue or problem | 31 | |
| 10602134981 | claim of fact | asserts that something is true or not true | 32 | |
| 10602134982 | claim of value | argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong | 33 | |
| 10602134983 | claim of policy | proposes a change | 34 | |
| 10602134984 | straw man fallacy | instead of dealing with the actual issue, it attacks a weaker version of argument | 35 | |
| 10602134985 | False Dilemma | A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options (usually two) when in fact more options are available. | 36 | |
| 10602134986 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence. | 37 | |
| 10602134987 | first-hand evidence | Evidence based on something the writer knows, whether it's from personal experience, observations, or general knowledge of events. | 38 | |
| 10602134988 | Anecdotes | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 39 | |
| 10602134989 | second-hand evidence | Evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. It includes factual and historical information, expert opinion, and quantitative data. | 40 | |
| 10602134990 | quantitative evidence | includes things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers | 41 | |
| 10602134991 | introduction (exordium) | introduces the reader to the subject under discussion | 42 | |
| 10602134992 | narration (narratio) | Provides factual information and background material on the subject at hand or establishes why the subject is a problem that needs addressing. | 43 | |
| 10602134993 | confirmation (confirmatio) | Usually the major part of the text, the confirmation includes the proof needed to make the writer's case. | 44 | |
| 10602134994 | refutation (refutatio) | Addresses the counterargument. It is a bridge between the writer's proof and conclusion. | 45 | |
| 10602134995 | conclusion (peroratio) | brings the essay to a satisfying close | 46 | |
| 10602134996 | Induction | the process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization | 47 | |
| 10602134997 | deduction | the process of moving from a general rule to a specific example | 48 |
