14918615217 | ad hominem | Falsehood- personal attack | 0 | |
14918619103 | aim, intention, purpose | The writers main goal or objective | 1 | |
14918624878 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 2 | |
14918629336 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 3 | |
14918633852 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 4 | |
14918645646 | anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 5 | |
14918652813 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 6 | |
14918676160 | Antithesis | Contrasting words or ideas used in parallel structure | 7 | |
14918698997 | appeal | A strategy of argument logos,ethos,pathos | 8 | |
14918755859 | argument | Your opinion or belief | 9 | |
14918779578 | Aristotelian | practical thinking subject, rhetor(writer), reader(aud.) | 10 | |
14918791359 | Arrangement | The structure and placement of | 11 | |
14918802310 | Asyndeton | The omit of conjunctions in a phrase | 12 | |
14918816316 | attitude, stance | The authors attitude towards the stance the tone the piece is written in | 13 | |
14918823376 | Audiences | Intended readers/listeners of an argument | 14 | |
14918829828 | begging the question | Situation based on the writers assumption that the audience reject | 15 | |
14919169352 | casual relationship | It's an if, then relationship of causes and effects | 16 | |
14919184690 | Claim/generalization/thesis | The main point of the argument | 17 | |
14919188362 | Climax | Arrangement of words in order of increasing importance | 18 | |
14919202120 | climbing the ladder | Increasing the climax and using anadiplosis (combo of both) | 19 |
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