9940123489 | Ad hominem | appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect marked by or being on attack on an opponent's character | 0 | |
9940123490 | Ad populum | a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it, "if many believe, it is so." | 1 | |
9940123491 | Alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds | 2 | |
9940123492 | Allusion | an implied or indirect reference especially in literature | 3 | |
9940123493 | Analogy | similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar | 4 | |
9940123494 | Audience | a group of ardent admirers or devotes | 5 | |
9940123495 | Concession | the act or an instance of conceding | 6 | |
9940123496 | Connotation | the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the things it explicitly names or describes | 7 | |
9940123497 | Context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning | 8 | |
9940123498 | Counterargument | a piece used in reckoning or in games | 9 | |
9940123499 | Ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group or institution | 10 | |
9940123500 | Logos | the divine wisdom manifest in the creation, government and redemption | 11 | |
9940123501 | Occasion | a state of affairs that provides a ground or reason | 12 | |
9940123502 | Pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation | 13 | |
9940123503 | Persona | a character assumed by an author in a written work | 14 | |
9940123504 | Polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles | 15 | |
9940123505 | Propaganda | a congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories and related institutions | 16 | |
9940123506 | Refutation | to prove wrong by argument or evidence | 17 | |
9940123507 | Rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively/ communication/ persuasion | 18 | |
9940123508 | Rhetorical appeal | rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling | 19 | |
9940123509 | Rhetorical triangle | a diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience and subject in determining a text | 20 | |
9940123510 | SOAPS | a mnemonic device that stands for subject, occasion, audience, purpose and speaker | 21 | |
9940123511 | Speaker | the person or group who creates a text | 22 | |
9940123512 | Subject | the topic of a text | 23 |
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