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| 15240676169 | Allusion | An indirect or passing reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance. The writer expects that reader to have enough background knowledge to understand the allusion. | 0 | |
| 15240676170 | Analogy | A comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect. | 1 | |
| 15240676171 | Anecdote | A usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or illustrative incident. | 2 | |
| 15240676172 | Argument of degree | A simple argument that suggests people want more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. | 3 | |
| 15240676173 | Artistic Appeal | An appeal based on reasoning rather than empirical evidence and requiring great skill. | 4 | |
| 15240676174 | Audience | The intended, actual, and or invoked consumers of a text, speech or other form of media. | 5 | |
| 15240676175 | Claim | An assertion open to challenge. | 6 | |
| 15240676176 | Common sense reasoning | Reasoning based on practical wisdom rather than advanced logic. | 7 | |
| 15240676177 | Cost benefit analysis | A system to resolve an argument by maximizing benefits and minimizing costs. | 8 | |
| 15240676178 | Deliberative | Describes arguments which take place about future courses of action. | 9 | |
| 15240676179 | Empty Rhetoric | Argument based on emotion and false promises rather than reason and substance. | 10 | |
| 15240676180 | Enthymeme | A statement which makes a claim without stating or acknowledging an assumption upon which the claim is based. | 11 | |
| 15240676181 | Epideictic | Describes arguments which take place about present times. | 12 | |
| 15240676182 | Ethos | Part of the rhetorical triangle, appeals to credibility of the speaker or writer | 13 | |
| 15240676183 | Exigence | The part of a rhetorical situation that inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts writers to create a text. | 14 | |
| 15240676184 | Experiments | Testing a hypothesis in a controlled setting and recording empirical evidence. | 15 | |
| 15240676185 | Expert Opinions | The perspective of a credible speaker who has ample prior knowledge. This perspective can support a claim provided the audience accepts the speaker as credible. | 16 | |
| 15240676186 | Fact | A piece of information presented as having objective reality. | 17 | |
| 15240676187 | Forensic | Describes arguments which take place about what happened in the past. | 18 | |
| 15240676188 | Illustration | An example or instance that helps make something clear. | 19 | |
| 15240676189 | Inartistic Appeal | An appeal based on self-evident empirical evidence and which therefore requires little skill. | 20 | |
| 15240676190 | Logos | Part of the rhetorical triangle, appeals to logic and evidence. | 21 | |
| 15240676191 | Metaphor | A figurative and indirect comparison between two unlike things. | 22 | |
| 15240676192 | Pathos | Part of the rhetorical triangle, appeals to the emotions of the audience. | 23 | |
| 15240676193 | Personal Experiences | A type of evidence base on direct participation in an event. | 24 | |
| 15240676194 | Personal Observations | A type of evidence based on an eye-witness account. | 25 | |
| 15240676195 | Poll | A questioning or canvassing of persons selected at random or by quota to obtain information or opinions to be analyzed. | 26 | |
| 15240676196 | Precedent | Something done or said that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a subsequent analogous act. | 27 | |
| 15240676197 | Purpose | What the writer hopes to accomplish with a text. | 28 | |
| 15240676198 | Rhetoric | A Greek term for the art of persuasion. | 29 | |
| 15240676199 | Shared Value | A value the acquires near universal acceptance in a given culture. | 30 | |
| 15240676200 | Simile | A figurative and direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as. | 31 | |
| 15240676201 | Stasis Theory | A set of questions used to focus an argument on fact, definition, quality, or policy. | 32 | |
| 15240676202 | Statistic | A quantitative description or generalization based on precise measurement and sampling. | 33 | |
| 15240676203 | Statistics | Mathematical values used to describe or draw inferences about actual phenomena. | 34 | |
| 15240676204 | Survey | To question someone in order to collect data for subsequent analysis. | 35 | |
| 15240676205 | Syllogism | A formal, structured logical argument in which major and minor premises lead to an inevitable conclusion. | 36 | |
| 15240676206 | Testimony | Firsthand authentication of a fact. | 37 | |
| 15246512094 | Absolutism | The belief that morals and ethics are universal and transcend culture or context. It is the belief that actions can be judged as ultimately right or wrong. | 38 | |
| 15246512095 | Archetype | An old imaginative pattern (including plots, characters, or images) that has appeared in literature throughout the ages. | 39 | |
| 15246512096 | Brackets | Punctuation marks used to enclose text that has been added by an editor for clarity. | 40 | |
| 15246512097 | Creation Myth | A story which explains how the world and its inhabitants came into existence. | 41 | |
| 15246512098 | Ellipses | Punctuation marks, usually consisting of three periods, used to indicate the editorial omission of text. | 42 | |
| 15246512099 | Myth | The belief system of a culture (including the explanation of nature phenomena, the justification of social stratification, the establishment of ritual, and the inculcation of social values) put into narrative form. | 43 | |
| 15246512100 | Noble Savage | Describes an idealized native person who has not been corrupted by civilization and who, therefore, possesses some innate human goodness that modern people have lost. | 44 | |
| 15246512101 | Oral Tradition | A method of storing and passing on information without the use of written technology. | 45 | |
| 15246512102 | Pamphlet | An unbound, and therefore easily printed, booklet popular in the 18th century and used for political protest and public debate. | 46 | |
| 15246512103 | Primary source | A text produced by one with first-hand knowledge or experience. | 47 | |
| 15246512104 | Providence | Divine guidance or care; God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding destiny. | 48 | |
| 15246512105 | Relativism | The belief that morals and ethics differ based on culture and context. It is the belief that actions cannot ultimately be judged as right or wrong; rather, cultural contexts need to be considered. | 49 | |
| 15246512106 | Sacred | Dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; of or relating to religion | 50 | |
| 15246512107 | Secular | Not overtly or specifically religious | 51 | |
| 15246512108 | William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth Colony and author of Of Plymouth Plantation. | 52 | |
| 15246512109 | Mary Rowlandson | Puritan woman held for ransom by Native Americans and who documented the experience in a well-known captivity narrative. | 53 | |
| 15246512110 | Jesse Cornplanter | Seneca craftsman and story teller responsible for sharing Seneca folklore with Carl Carmer. | 54 | |
| 15246512111 | Carl Carmer | Author and folklorist who published a collection of Seneca mythology titled Legends of the Longhouse. | 55 | |
| 15246512112 | Benjamin Franklin | Publisher, inventor and statesmen who wrote a pamphlet defending the civility of Native Americans. | 56 | |
| 15246512113 | Puritans | 16th and 17th century Protestant group in England and New England opposing the Church of England. | 57 | |
| 15246512114 | Seneca/Iroquois | Native American group from New York and Pennsylvania. | 58 | |
| 15246512115 | George W. Harkins | Choctaw leader who penned an open letter to American citizens during the Trail of Tears. | 59 | |
| 15246512116 | N. Scott Momaday | Native American Pulitzer prize winning novelist. | 60 | |
| 15246512117 | Andrea Lunsford and John Ruszkiewicz | College professors and authors of Everything's an Argument. | 61 | |
| 15246512118 | Howard Fineman | Journalist and author of The Thirteen American Arguments. | 62 |
