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| 10823230653 | Allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictional) or to a work of art | 0 | |
| 10823230654 | Analogy | A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 1 | |
| 10823230655 | Anecdote | a brief story used to illustrate a point or claim | 2 | |
| 10823230656 | Aphorism | short, concise statement of truth | 3 | |
| 10823230657 | Epigram | a pithy saying and often antithetical (a concise statement that usually contains something directly opposing the other) | 4 | |
| 10823230658 | Explication | a line by line explanation of a poem or other literary work | 5 | |
| 10823230659 | Occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 6 | |
| 10823230660 | Parody | an imitation of a particular writer's style with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | 7 | |
| 10823230661 | Persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience | 8 | |
| 10823230662 | Purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 9 | |
| 10823230663 | Rhetoric | the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. In other words, it is the art of finding ways of persuading an audience | 10 | |
| 10823230664 | Satire | the use of irony or sarcasm to critique society or an individual | 11 | |
| 10823230665 | Style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and the arrangement of words and figures of speech. The combination of two elements: the idea to be expressed and the individuality of the author | 12 | |
| 10823230666 | Synthesis | combining two or more ideas in order to create something more complex in support of a new idea | 13 | |
| 10823230667 | Thesis | the essay's main idea or the central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 14 | |
| 10823230668 | Tone | a speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices | 15 | |
| 10823230669 | Voice | in rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun | 16 | |
| 10823230670 | Pathos | Greek for "suffering" or "experience." Speaker's attempt to emotionally motivate their audience. Specifically, they play on the audiences values, desires, and hopes on the one hand, or fears and prejudices on the other | 17 | |
| 10823230671 | Ethos | Greek for "character. "Speaker's attempt to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic. It is established by both who you are and what you say | 18 | |
| 10823230672 | Logos | Greek for "embodied thought" Speaker's appeal to reason by offering clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up | 19 | |
| 10823230673 | Rhetorical Modes | things that describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language based communication, particularly writing and speaking | 20 | |
| 10823230674 | Description | generic name for a group of figures in order to make the reader visualize a person, place, or thing | 21 | |
| 10823230675 | Exposition | the presentation of a essential information to explain | 22 | |
| 10823230676 | Narration | in classical oration, the factual and background information, establishing why a subject or problem needs addressing. It precedes the confirmation, or laying out of evidence, to support claims made in the argument | 23 | |
| 10823230677 | Persuasion | the presentation of known information on a debatable subject to change the reader's mind | 24 |
