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4835679238AudienceThe listener, viewer, or reader of the text.0
4835679239ConcessionAn acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable.1
4835679240ConnotationMeanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition.2
4835679241ContextThe circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text.3
4835679242CounterargumentAn opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward.4
4835679243EthosUsage to demonstrating that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic.5
4835679244LogosUses statistics, examples, rational ideas, facts, and specified details to back anything up.6
4835679245OccasionThe time and place a speech is given or a price is written.7
4835679246PathosTo emotionally motivate their audience.8
4835679247PersonaThe face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience9
4835679248PolemicAn aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others.10
4835679249PropergandaThe spread of ideas and information to further a cause. Uses rumors, lies, disinformation, and scare tactics in order to damage or promote a cause.11
4835679250PurposeThe goal the speaker wants to achieve.12
4835679251RefutationA denial of a validity of an opposing argument.13
4835679252RhetoricThe art of finding ways to persuade an audience.14
4835679253Rhetorical appealsRhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find mist important.15
4835679254Rhetorical triangleA diagram that illustrates the interrelationships among the speaker, audience, and the subject in determining a text.16
4835679255SoapsUses subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and speaker.17

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