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| 14915699197 | rhetorical triangle | ethos, pathos, logos | 0 | |
| 14915699198 | logos | a persuasive appeal based on logic or reason | 1 | |
| 14915699199 | ethos | the persuasive appeal of one's character, or credibility of the speaker/ writer | 2 | |
| 14915699200 | pathos | appeal to the audience based on emotion | 3 | |
| 14915699201 | rhetoric | from the greek word for "orator," this term describes the principles of governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | 4 | |
| 14915699202 | speaker | A term used for the author, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 5 | |
| 14915699203 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 6 | |
| 14915699204 | occasion | The reason or moment for writing or speaking | 7 | |
| 14915699205 | subject | about what the story is being written | 8 | |
| 14915699206 | argument | a statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work | 9 | |
| 14915699207 | context | the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. | 10 | |
| 14915699208 | counterargument | an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument. | 11 | |
| 14915699209 | scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 12 | |
| 14915699210 | trope | The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. | 13 | |
| 14915699211 | purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 14 | |
| 14915699212 | propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. | 15 | |
| 14915699213 | pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 16 | |
| 14915699214 | metaphor | implied comparison between two things of unlike nature | 17 | |
| 14915699215 | simile | explicit comparison between 2 things of unlike nature using "like" or "as" | 18 | |
| 14915699216 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 19 | |
| 14915699217 | irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 20 | |
| 14915699218 | hyperobole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect | 21 | |
| 14915699219 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 22 | |
| 14915699220 | metonymy | substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant | 23 | |
| 14915699221 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 24 | |
| 14915699222 | paradox | contradictory statement that also contains a measure of truth | 25 | |
| 14915699223 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 26 | |
| 14915699224 | onomotopoiea | words that mimic the sound it represents | 27 | |
| 14915699225 | litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 28 | |
| 14915699226 | chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 29 | |
| 14915699227 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 30 | |
| 14915699228 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 31 | |
| 14915699229 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 32 | |
| 14915699230 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 33 | |
| 14915699231 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 34 | |
| 14915699232 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 35 | |
| 14915699233 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 36 | |
| 14915699234 | polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 37 | |
| 14915699235 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 38 | |
| 14915699236 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 39 | |
| 14915699237 | anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order | 40 | |
| 14915699238 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 41 |
