3539519100 | Paradigm | a structural framework on which you view the world | 0 | |
3539534404 | 4 parts of a rhetorical situation | persona, audience, purpose, strategies | 1 | |
3539551126 | ethos | credibility | 2 | |
3539554009 | pathos | emotions | 3 | |
3539554010 | logos | uses logic and reasonings | 4 | |
3539568388 | types of argument | definition, causation, ethics, evaluation, proposal | 5 | |
3539585968 | types of support | statistics, facts, authority, quick examples, narrative examples | 6 | |
3539596990 | types of appeals | logos, ethos, pathos | 7 | |
3539610250 | claim | controversial and debatable statement | 8 | |
3539620584 | qualifiers | limit your claim to a more reasonable level | 9 | |
3539630289 | counterclaim | a claim that is the opposite of your claim | 10 | |
3539636540 | rebuttals | the way you deal with the opponent's claim | 11 | |
3539653827 | three strategies for counterclaims | concession, refutation, demonstration of irrelevance | 12 | |
3539665607 | antanagoge | the placing of an unavoidable negative next to a positive one | 13 | |
3539677577 | refutation | bring up the opponent's argument to show the flaws in the argument | 14 | |
3539693209 | procatalepsis | raising objections up to your own argument that you want to address | 15 | |
3539723167 | irrelevance | showing that your opponent's argument does not apply to the point you are making | 16 | |
3539738554 | warrants | reasonings | 17 | |
3539750442 | six types of warrants | Generality, analogy, sign, causation, authority, principle | 18 | |
3539776791 | Backing | support for your reasonings | 19 | |
3539786772 | anecdotal evidence | using one person's story as a support for a claim | 20 | |
3539818439 | authority | know your audience | 21 | |
3541416196 | Premise | a declarative statement that is used to support or prove a point of an argument | 22 | |
3541426307 | deductive reasoning | starts with a principle, must move top to bottom of the ladder | 23 | |
3541458208 | inductive reasoning | probably true, specific--> to general | 24 | |
3541463692 | syllogism | another word for major premises, minor premises, and conclusion | 25 | |
3541481523 | causal | one incident(x) leads directly to another incident(y) | 26 | |
3541487290 | correlation | third element is the cause of the other two | 27 | |
3541491076 | analogy | extended simile | 28 | |
3541502175 | polysyndeton | when an author places conjunctions between every element in a series | 29 | |
3541507740 | Rhetorical question | a question asked in which the answer is assumed | 30 | |
3541514724 | anadiplosis | takes the last word of a sentence or phrase and repeats it as the first word of the next sentence or phrase | 31 | |
3541528991 | antithesis | is built by contrasting any of the different parts of a statement | 32 | |
3541538106 | zeugma | a structure in which two elements of a sentence are linked by a governing third element in a suggestive way | 33 | |
3541559068 | chiasmus | a special form of parallelism that flips the original form around | 34 | |
3541571148 | irony | opposite of what you would expect | 35 | |
3541580569 | romantic irony | when the audience or reader is deceived by the person telling the story | 36 | |
3541596436 | situational irony | when what happens is not what was expected to happen | 37 | |
3541616815 | verbal irony | when what is said is not what was meant (sarcasm) | 38 | |
3541619979 | dramatic irony | when the audience has information that the people in the movie/story do not have | 39 | |
3541628074 | structural irony | when the genre doesn't match the form | 40 | |
3541634351 | synecdoche | replace one thing for another because it is a part of a whole | 41 | |
3541657463 | metonymy | replace one thing with another through association | 42 | |
3541660850 | diction | word choice | 43 | |
3541663212 | denotation | dictionary definition | 44 | |
3541663213 | connotation | emotional power a word has | 45 | |
3541665884 | semantics | study of the meaning of words | 46 | |
3541668003 | euphemism | language to hide reality, the softening of an idea | 47 | |
3541669767 | litotes | emphasizes a point by using a word opposite to the condition | 48 | |
3541685736 | mode | how you write about the genre | 49 | |
3541688390 | motif | a recurring element in a work of art | 50 | |
3541700802 | archetype | a symbol that transcends time and culture | 51 | |
3541704467 | paradox | two contradictory statements that presents a truth | 52 | |
3541710608 | juxtaposition | to put two subjects side by side for comparing and contrasting | 53 | |
3541714497 | apostrophe | when a writer or speaker, usually overwhelmed by emotion, breaks from the normal flow of writing and address an inanimate object or presence which cannot respond | 54 | |
3541729423 | oxymoron | two words that are contradictory | 55 | |
3541731909 | caricature | exaggerating distinctive features of something | 56 | |
3541741070 | satire | a literary genre that uses representation, hyperbole, understatement, caricature, parody, irony, and wit to expose humanity's vices and foible, giving impetus to change or reform through ridicule | 57 | |
3541761310 | horation satire | pokes fun with indulgent tone | 58 | |
3541763950 | juvenalian satire | denounces human vice in a severe tone | 59 | |
3541769731 | direct satire | talks directly to the audience | 60 | |
3541776159 | indirect satire | is produced by modes of presentation and repesentation | 61 | |
3541778077 | parody | imitative use of the words, style, attitude,tone, and ideas of an author, genre, or style in such way as to make them ridicoulous | 62 | |
3541793699 | allusion | reference t mythology, religion, pop culture, historical people and events, and,or works of literature or art | 63 | |
3541798811 | genre | a type of writing on it's category or branch | 64 | |
3541805736 | epigraph | literally writing on the surface | 65 | |
3541809315 | continuum | the idea that things are not either black or white, but lies in the middle | 66 | |
3541813787 | pragmatism | does an action for a direct outcome | 67 | |
3541821698 | idealism | not always getting a tangable result | 68 | |
3541831750 | context | the situation in which something occurs | 69 | |
3541833519 | ubiquitous | seemingly everywhere | 70 | |
3541835167 | explicit | a message or meaning is directly stated | 71 | |
3541839287 | implicit | suggested meaning or message | 72 | |
3541841801 | foible | minor flaw in character | 73 | |
3541852441 | hypothetical situation | creates a possible world/future | 74 | |
3541859435 | types of introductions | anecdote/personal story, hypothetical situation,fact/statistics, the opposite (counterclaim), a question | 75 | |
3541869605 | funnel introduction | starts out abstract then casually get more specific towards the topic | 76 |
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