10634785577 | Argument | method of representing a belief or opinion | 0 | |
10634802748 | Ad hominem | Type of logical fallacy where you attack the person you are arguing with personally; don't want to have in argument | 1 | |
10634829406 | Aim/Intention/Purpose | Writer's main goal or objective | 2 | |
10634837987 | Allusion | Reference to something outside the source | 3 | |
10634904029 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 4 | |
10648262929 | Analogy | Comparison between something that's familiar with something that is not | 5 | |
10648317379 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in consecutive clauses, but in reverse order | 6 | |
10648333313 | Antithesis | Opposite of words or phrases that are used in parallel structure | 7 | |
10648343214 | Appeal | Strategies of Argument | 8 | |
10648350982 | Anecdote | Short story or personal event that's used to grab attention of the audience or to support an opinion | 9 | |
10648442425 | Aristotelian Triangle | Rhetor - Topic/Subject - Audience | 10 | |
10648486378 | Arrangement | Structure of argument and placement of rhetorical devices | 11 | |
10648493843 | Asyndeton | Phrases without conjections | 12 | |
10648526800 | Attitude/Stance | A writer's belief towards audience and subject matter | 13 | |
10648538433 | Audience | Intended reader or listener of an argument | 14 | |
10648550375 | Begging of the question | A situation based on a writer/speaker's assumption that the audience rejects | 15 | |
10648572335 | Causal relationship | Cause and effect/if-then relationship; good way to persuade logically | 16 | |
10648592241 | Claim/Generalization/Thesis | Main point of argument | 17 | |
10648594829 | Climax | Arrangement of words in order of increasing importance | 18 | |
10648611326 | Climbing the ladder | Combo of climax and anadiplosis | 19 | |
10659013199 | Logos | an appeal to logic and reason | 20 | |
10659015526 | Ethos | Trying to establish credibility and reliability | 21 | |
10659018766 | Pathos | Bringing emotions into it | 22 |
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