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| 8808960641 | polemic | Greek for hostile, Aggressive arguments that attempts to establish superiority of one opinion over all others | 0 | |
| 8808973708 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of multiple conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 1 | |
| 8808988580 | Point of view | perspective the work is told from | 2 | |
| 8808999092 | First Person | told from the narrator's point of view, using "I", sometimes deemed unreliable due to inability to see the "Big Picture" or are biased | 3 | |
| 8809016372 | Second person | Told from the reader's point of view, using "you", cast the reader as a character in the narrative | 4 | |
| 8809029326 | Third person | Narrator is not a character, but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts | 5 | |
| 8809033061 | Post hoc ergo propter hoc | This is a conclusion that assumes that if 'A' occurred after 'B' then 'B' must have caused 'A.' | 6 | |
| 8809049117 | Propoganda | Spread of ideas and information to further a cause, can be seen negatively as the spread of lies, rumors, disinformation, and scare tactics | 7 | |
| 8809088035 | pun | Play on words that derives its humor from the replacement of one word with another that has a similar pronunciation or spelling but a different meaning | 8 | |
| 8809103357 | purpose | Goal the speaker wants to recieve | 9 | |
| 8809110994 | qualified argument | an argument that is not absolute; it acknowledges an opposing view and refutes it with a stronger case for their own position | 10 | |
| 8809114896 | Qualifier | words used to temper a claim and make it less absolute (I.e. Usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely) | 11 | |
| 8809129681 | Qualitative evidence | Evidence supported by reason, tradition, or precedent | 12 | |
| 8809140821 | Quantitative Evidence | Evidence of this sort can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numerics | 13 | |
| 8809164404 | Rebuttal | A counterargument, especially in debate | 14 | |
| 8809169876 | Red Herring | A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 15 | |
| 8809173574 | Reservation | Terms and Conditions necessitated by the qualifier as exposed in the Toulmin model | 16 | |
| 8809184600 | Rhetoric | Finding a way to persuade an audience | 17 | |
| 8809255773 | Rhetorical Appeals | The use of emotional, ethical, and logical arguments to persuade in writing or speaking | 18 | |
| 8809261556 | Rhetorical Triangle | author, audience, purpose | 19 | |
| 8809266678 | Rhyme | correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) | 20 | |
| 8809269553 | Slant Rhyme | pairs are similar but not exactly the same | 21 | |
| 8809269554 | End Rhyme | Rhyme at the end of two or more lines of poetry | 22 | |
| 8809275566 | Eye Rhyme | Works because the words look the same | 23 |
