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| 14924338069 | rhetorical triangle (Aristotelian triangle) | The interaction between subject, speaker, and audience, as well as how this structure determines the structure and language of an argument |  | 0 |
| 14924342278 | Speaker | The voice of the work Ex. Someone narrating the story | 1 | |
| 14924342279 | Context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. Ex. You can use context clues to determine what a word means | 2 | |
| 14924345280 | Persona | The character of the first person narrator in verse and the speaker in lyric poetry. Ex. The Old Man and Sea (By Ernest Hemingway) | 3 | |
| 14924345281 | rhetorical appeals | strategies that writers use to move or inform their audience; a writer may use all of these strategies in a single text, but the writer should consider which strategies are most effective to fulfill her / his intended purpose with a specific audience. Ex. The summer work essays had these | 4 | |
| 14924356865 | Ethical Appeal | when a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him or her based on a presentation of image of self through the text. |  | 5 |
| 14924356866 | ethos | one of the appeals; character or morality; shared values of a large group Ex. The democratic candidate making a commercial explaining why they are the best using their mortality | 6 | |
| 14924356867 | logos | one of the appeals; logic or reason; offers clear, rational ideas, facts, etc. Ex. Commercials using stats to convince one to buy their products | 7 | |
| 14924363412 | Counterargument | a fact or opinion that challenges the reasoning behind somebody's proposal and shows that there are grounds for taking an opposite view Ex. An argument that goes against a hypothesis | 8 | |
| 14924363413 | Refutatio | addresses the counterargument, acts as a bridge between the writer's proof and conclusion; appeals largely to logos Ex. Writing an argumentative essay with a counterclaim and rebuttal | 9 | |
| 14924375606 | refute | to prove something wrong through logical argument or by providing evidence to the contrary Ex. Arguing why something is wrong using logic | 10 | |
| 14924375607 | Pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking emotion or compassion Ex. Things appealing to emotions such as the Budweiser Horse Commericals | 11 | |
| 14924383405 | polemic | a passionate argument Ex. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | 12 | |
| 14924383406 | Propoganda | deceptive or distorted information that is systematically spread Ex. WW2 news articles targeting Germany falsely | 13 | |
| 14924386785 | Connotation | implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association Ex. cheap, cool, stubborn | 14 | |
| 14924386786 | Rhetoric | the art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse; rhetoric focuses on the interrelationship of invention, arrangement, and style in order to create felicitous and appropriate discourse Ex. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | 15 |
