5767390293 | rhetoric | act of finding ways to persuade an audience | 0 | |
5767401617 | audience | listener, reader, viewer of text | 1 | |
5767406249 | logos | reason, clear, rational, logic | 2 | |
5767408562 | context | circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, events surrounding text | 3 | |
5767430857 | purpose | goal the speaker wants to achieve | 4 | |
5767438513 | rhetorical triangle | illustrates the relationship among speaker, audience, subject | 5 | |
5767444201 | speaker | person or group who creates a text | 6 | |
5767446167 | persona | mask, face, or character that a speaker shows the audience | 7 | |
5767451794 | subject | topic- what the text is about | 8 | |
5767453367 | SOAPS | Subject Occasion Audience Purpose Speaker -remember various elements in rhetorical situation | 9 | |
5767467299 | rhetorical appeals | persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important -ethos, logos, pathos | 10 | |
5767485011 | ethos | credibility, trustworthiness | 11 | |
5767487731 | pathos | emotions, values, empathy, fears | 12 | |
5767493033 | counterargument | anticipate objections, opposing views | 13 | |
5767497204 | propagandistic | spread of ideas or info to further cause | 14 | |
5767694715 | concession | acknowledging an opposing argument as true or reasonable | 15 | |
5767701571 | refutation | denial of validity of opposing arguments | 16 | |
5767510244 | connotation | well-known description the audience understands | 17 | |
5767522673 | satire | sarcasm, irony to criticize | 18 | |
5767526873 | diction | choice of words | 19 | |
5767529017 | syntax | arrangement of words | 20 | |
5767535413 | hyperbole | exaggerated statement | 21 | |
5767552032 | parallelism | similarity in structure in series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 22 | |
5767556061 | juxtaposition | placement of 2 things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 23 | |
5767563496 | antithesis | opposition or contrast of ideas or words | 24 | |
5767568971 | compound sentence | more than 1 subject | 25 | |
5767577532 | complex sentence | has subordinate clause | 26 | |
5767589009 | periodic sentence | main clause at the end | 27 | |
5767592641 | cumulative sentence | main clause at beginning | 28 | |
5767594619 | imperative sentence | command or enjoin | 29 | |
5767621836 | hortative sentence | calls to action | 30 | |
5767597243 | pacing | details revealed quickly or suspense | 31 | |
5767603535 | figures of speech | word/phrase that adds rhetorical force | 32 | |
5767606076 | imagery | visual description or figurative language | 33 | |
5767608504 | oxymoron | contradicting terms | 34 | |
5767610547 | zeugma | same word- different way | 35 | |
5767613731 | anaphora | repetition of word/phrase -beginning of lines | 36 | |
5767627670 | alliteration | repetition of same consonant sound | 37 | |
5767641492 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | 38 | |
5767635814 | allusion | brief reference to person, event, etc. | 39 | |
5767649573 | archaic diction | old fashioned/outdated choice of words | 40 | |
5767655109 | asyndeton | emission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 41 | |
5767666970 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence | 42 | |
5767675231 | rhetorical question | question for effect not answer | 43 | |
5767678575 | synecdoche | uses part to represent whole | 44 | |
5767683724 | tone | attitude of writer | 45 | |
5767683725 | mood | feeling writer creates | 46 | |
5767741526 | paradox | statement that seems self-contradictory on the surface, with closer examination, may have underlying truth | 47 |
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