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| 14963425987 | Rhetoric | Aristotle defined it as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." The art of finding ways of persuading an audience | 0 | |
| 14963425988 | Aristotelian Triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 1 | |
| 14963425989 | SOAPstone | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, tone | 2 | |
| 14963425990 | Open Thesis | one that does not list all the points the writer intends to cover in an essay | 3 | |
| 14963425991 | closed thesis example | A statement of the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make. | 4 | |
| 14963425992 | Concession | An acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. | 5 | |
| 14963425993 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 6 | |
| 14963425994 | Ethos | Appeal to ethics | 7 | |
| 14963425995 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 8 | |
| 14963425996 | Claim of Fact | Asserts that something is true or not true | 9 | |
| 14963425997 | Claim of Policy | proposes a change | 10 | |
| 14963425998 | Claim of Value | Argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong | 11 | |
| 14963425999 | Inductive Reasoning | Logical process wherein you reason from particulars to universals, using specific cases in order to draw a conclusion, also called generalization | 12 | |
| 14963426000 | Deductive reasoning | Logical process wherein you reach a conclusion by starting with a general principle or universal truth and apply it to a specific case. | 13 | |
| 14963426001 | Syllogism | A logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion | 14 | |
| 14963426002 | Diction | A speaker's choice of words. | 15 | |
| 14963426003 | Syntax | Arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. This includes word order, the length and structure of sentences; and such schemes as parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, and antimetabole. | 16 | |
| 14963426004 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 17 | |
| 14963426005 | Connotation | Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation. | 18 | |
| 14963426006 | Tone | A speakers attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. | 19 | |
| 14963426007 | Exordium | In classical oration, the introduction to an argument, in which the speaker announces the subject and purpose, and appeals to ethos in order to establish credibility. | 20 | |
| 14963426008 | Narratio | In classical oration, the factual and background information, establishing why a subject or problem needs addressing it precede the confirmation, or laying out of evidence to support claims made in the argument | 21 | |
| 14963426009 | Confirmatio | In classical oration, this major part of an argument comes between the narration and refutation; it provides the development of proof through evidence that supports the claims made by the speaker | 22 | |
| 14963426010 | Refutatio | A denial or the validity of an opposing argument. In order to sound reasonable, it often follows a concession that acknowledges that an opposing argument may be true. One of the stages in classical oration, usually following the confirmation, or proof, and preceding he conclusion, or peroration | 23 | |
| 14963426011 | Peroration | In classical oration, the final part of an argument. Follows the refutation and typically appeals to pathos as it moves the audience toward the conclusion | 24 | |
| 14963426012 | Ad hominem | Latin for "to the man," this fallacy refers to the specific diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker. | 25 | |
| 14963426013 | ad populum | This fallacy occurs when evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do." | 26 | |
| 14963426014 | appeal to false authority | occurs when someone who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority | 27 | |
| 14963426015 | begging the question | a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt. | 28 | |
| 14963426016 | False Dilemma | the speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices | 29 | |
| 14963426017 | Hasty Generalization | in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence. | 30 | |
| 14963426018 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | Latin for "after this therefore because of this." Meaning that it is incorrect to always claim that something is a cause just because it happened earlier | 31 | |
| 14963426019 | Straw man | when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea | 32 | |
| 14963426020 | Red Herring | When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue | 33 | |
| 14963426021 | Compound sentence | A sentence that includes at least two independent clauses | 34 | |
| 14963426022 | complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 35 | |
| 14963426023 | compound-complex sentence | a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 36 | |
| 14963426024 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 37 | |
| 14963426025 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 38 | |
| 14963426026 | Metaphor | compares two things without using like or as | 39 | |
| 14963426027 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 40 | |
| 14963426028 | Hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect | 41 | |
| 14963426029 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 42 | |
| 14963426030 | Zuegma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meanings | 43 | |
| 14963426031 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 44 | |
| 14963426032 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 45 | |
| 14963426033 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 46 | |
| 14963426034 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence | 47 | |
| 14963426035 | Allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 48 | |
| 14963426036 | Oxymoron | a paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words | 49 | |
| 14963426037 | Personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea | 50 | |
| 14963426038 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 51 | |
| 14963426039 | Onomonopia | The use of words or sounds which resemble the sounds they describe. (ex boom, psst) | 52 | |
| 14963426040 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 53 | |
| 14963426041 | Synecdoche | the use of the part for the whole | 54 | |
| 14963426042 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 55 |
