14927487140 | ad hominem | personal attack | 0 | |
14927491607 | Aim/Intention/Purpose | the writer's main goal | 1 | |
14927494140 | Allusion | a reference outside of source | 2 | |
14927506888 | Anadiplosis | type of repetition - last word of one phrase is the 1st word of next phrase | 3 | |
14927520500 | Analogy | comparison between something familiar + something unfamiliar | 4 | |
14927534709 | Antimetabole | repetition of phrases in a reverse order | 5 | |
14927553705 | Antithesis | using contrasting words/ideas near each other | 6 | |
14927558511 | Appeal | ethos, logos, pathos | 7 | |
14927638900 | Argument | belief/opinion on a topic | 8 | |
14927643636 | Aristotelian Triangle | rhetor (writer), subject, audience (reader) | 9 | |
14927651605 | Arrangement | structure of the peace | 10 | |
14927660277 | Asyndeton | group of phrases w/out conjunctions | 11 | |
14927702056 | Attitude/Stance | writer's belief towards subject | 12 | |
14927711583 | Audience | intended readers | 13 | |
14927717327 | Begging of the questions | when the writer falsely assumes the audience's belief | 14 | |
14927737327 | Casual Relationship | if/then relationship | 15 | |
14927748006 | Claim/Generalization/Thesis | main point of argument | 16 | |
14927761680 | Climax | arrangement of words w/increasing importance | 17 | |
14927766215 | Climbing the ladder | climax -> anadiplosis | 18 |
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