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| 10873893943 | Diction | word choice | 0 | |
| 10873896698 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 1 | |
| 10873903177 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 2 | |
| 10873914943 | Context/Occasion | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. | 3 | |
| 10873926545 | writer's purpose | What the writer wants the reader to know or understand. It is the reason the text is written. (inform, persuade, or entertain are all purposes, but the purpose can be more specific than this as well) | 4 | |
| 10873938634 | Logos (logical appeal) | a way of persuading an audience through reasoning by offering them facts, statistics, and examples. | 5 | |
| 10873941943 | Ethos (credibility appeal) | a way of persuading an audience through the author's credibility--his/her attempt to prove to the audience his/her upstanding character, knowledge on a subject, and use of expert sources; the author's strategies to get the reader to trust him/her | 6 | |
| 10873970666 | Pathos (emotional appeal) | a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response; appealing to their sense of emotion--anger, sadness, frustration, patriotism, happiness, etc. | 7 | |
| 10873988057 | structure | the arrangement or framework of a paragraph or entire work | 8 | |
| 10873991997 | persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. This can be sincere or insincere. | 9 | |
| 10919405655 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 10 | |
| 11447170285 | alliteration | the repetition of the same beginning letter or sound within words that follow one another or are nearby. | 11 | |
| 11447174139 | anaphora | when the writer or speaker repeats the beginning word or words of the sentence within consecutive sentences. | 12 | |
| 11447177015 | parallelism | when the writer or speaker repeats the structure of their sentences. | 13 | |
| 11447180340 | juxtaposition | when the writer or speaker addresses two different things (ideas, people, places, locations, etc.) alongside one another. This is used to create a compare/contrast situation. | 14 | |
| 11447187570 | allusion | a reference to something outside of the work (another book, movie, essay, poem, person, fable, historical event, idea, etc.). | 15 | |
| 11447187571 | metaphor | a direct comparison between two different things that does not use the words "like" or "as." | 16 | |
| 11447191809 | personification | when the writer or speaker gives human-like qualities to a non-human figure (animals, machine, item, object, weather, etc.) | 17 | |
| 11447197805 | simile | a comparison between two different things that uses the words "like" or "as." | 18 | |
| 11563340729 | understatement | when the writer or speaker purposely presents something as less important, significant, or serious than it actually is | 19 | |
| 11563345182 | counterargument | an opposing argument to the one a speaker or writer is putting forward. | 20 | |
| 11563349888 | concession | when the writer or speaker acknowledges that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable | 21 | |
| 11563353749 | refutation | the denial of the validity or soundness of an argument; when the speaker or writer proves a claim false | 22 |
