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| 8241751093 | Speaker | The person or group who creates a text | 0 | |
| 8241774307 | rhetorical triangle | speaker, audience, subject | 1 | |
| 8241780068 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 2 | |
| 8241784941 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 3 | |
| 8241798556 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 4 | |
| 8241802902 | Subject | The topic of a text. What the text is about. | 5 | |
| 8241806516 | SOAPS | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker | 6 | |
| 8241812506 | Rhetorical Appeals | The ways in which a writer can influence his/ her audience; logos, ethos, and pathos | 7 | |
| 8241816135 | Ethos | Credibility | 8 | |
| 8241825230 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 9 | |
| 8241828568 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 10 | |
| 8241832010 | Concession | An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable | 11 | |
| 8241837296 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 12 | |
| 8241843138 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 13 | |
| 8241854605 | Diction | Word choice | 14 | |
| 8241854606 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 15 | |
| 8241863529 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 16 | |
| 8241863530 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 17 | |
| 8241868739 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 18 | |
| 8241871793 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 19 | |
| 8241875485 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 20 | |
| 8241882759 | Compound Sentence | a sentence with more than one subject or predicate. | 21 | |
| 8241885754 | Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 22 | |
| 8241888911 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 23 | |
| 8241894556 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on. | 24 | |
| 8241897398 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 25 | |
| 8241897399 | Pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | 26 | |
| 8241904314 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 27 | |
| 8241911167 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 28 | |
| 8241916605 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 29 | |
| 8241916606 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | 30 | |
| 8241929359 | Hortative Sentence | Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action. | 31 | |
| 8241929360 | Thesis Statement | a statement or sentence that states the purpose of a paper or essay | 32 | |
| 8241936760 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 33 | |
| 8241939710 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 34 | |
| 8241955462 | Claim of Value | Argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong. | 35 | |
| 8241995468 | Closed thesis | A statement of the main idea and brief preview of an argument | 36 | |
| 8242001377 | Open thesis | One that does not list all the points the writer intends to cover in an essay | 37 | |
| 8242009226 | Counterargument thesis | a summary of a counterargument, usually qualified by although or but | 38 | |
| 8242028770 | Toulmin Argument | system of reasoning that offers advice for building convincing cases that has no order, just parts | 39 | |
| 8242034920 | Warrant | expresses the assumption necessarily shared by the speaker and audience. | 40 | |
| 8242079217 | Backing | Support or evidence for a claim in an argument | 41 | |
| 8242084552 | Qualifier | a word or phrase that clarifies, modifies, or limits the meaning of another word or phrase | 42 | |
| 8242097802 | Logical Fallacies | An error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid. | 43 | |
| 8242097803 | Red Herring | When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue | 44 | |
| 8242103416 | Ad Hominem | An attack on the person rather than the issue at hand - a common fallacy - common in elections | 45 | |
| 8242112797 | Faulty Analogy | A fallacy that occurs when an analogy compares two things that are not comparable. | 46 | |
| 8242119136 | Straw Man Fallacy | A statement that refutes a claim that was never made | 47 | |
| 8242128732 | Either/Or Fallacy | tendency to see an issue as having ONLY two sides | 48 | |
| 8242132599 | False Dilemma | occurs when it is suggested that only two alternatives exist even though there may be others | 49 | |
| 8242137634 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence. | 50 | |
| 8242142517 | Circular Reasoning | A fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence. | 51 | |
| 8242147081 | First Hand Evidence | evidence based on something the writer knows | 52 | |
| 8242152425 | Second Hand Evidence | Evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. | 53 | |
| 8242157397 | Expert Opinion | an authoritative source of relevant information | 54 | |
| 8242164743 | Quantitative Evidence | Includes things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers | 55 | |
| 8242172135 | Bandwagon Appeal | Make you think that everyone is doing it so you should too! | 56 |
