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| 14647910337 | appeals | to take a case to a higher court for a rehearing ex: going to court with a case | 0 | |
| 14647910338 | assessment | The evaluation or estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something Ex: giving a test | 1 | |
| 14647910339 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. Ex: going to a show and being in the spectated crowd | 2 | |
| 14647910340 | Attitude | A person's consistently favorable or unfavorable evaluations, feelings, and tendencies toward an object or idea ex: show the way you feel about someone | 3 | |
| 14753718021 | Context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. | 4 | |
| 14753718022 | Occasion | The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written. | 5 | |
| 14753718023 | Purpose | The goal the speaker wants to achieve. | 6 | |
| 14753718024 | Speaker | The person or group who creates a text. | 7 | |
| 14753718025 | Persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. | 8 | |
| 14753718026 | Subject | The topic of a text. What the text is about. | 9 | |
| 14957998837 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 10 | |
| 15038297000 | Ethos | demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic. | 11 | |
| 15038297001 | pathos | emotionally motivate their audience. | 12 | |
| 15038297002 | Logos | reason, by offering clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up. | 13 | |
| 15038297003 | Counterargument | opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward | 14 | |
| 15038297004 | Concession | acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable | 15 | |
| 15038297005 | Refutation | denial of the validity of an opposing argument. | 16 | |
| 15157836322 | Propoganda | The spread of ideas and information to further a cause. | 17 | |
| 15157845906 | polemic | An aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others | 18 | |
| 15157852233 | connotation | Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation. | 19 | |
| 15157857744 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 20 | |
| 15274054605 | qualified arguments | An argument that is not absolute | 21 | |
| 15274066708 | bias | A prejudice or preconceived notion that prevents a person from approaching a topic in a neutral or an objective way. | 22 | |
| 15274073443 | deduction | logical process wherein you reach a conclusion by starting with a general principle or universal truth | 23 | |
| 15274087116 | equivocation | A fallacy that uses a term with two or more meanings in an attempt to misrepresent or deceive. | 24 | |
| 15274094516 | hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point. | 25 | |
| 15617693001 | Contemplative | expressing or involving prolonged thought | 26 | |
| 15617693002 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 27 | |
| 15617693003 | Homily | This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | 28 | |
| 15617693004 | Inference | A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning | 29 | |
| 15617693005 | Invective | (n.) a strong denunciation or condemnation; abusive language; (adj.) abusive, vituperative | 30 | |
| 15725383442 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 31 | |
| 15725383443 | Cliché | a worn-out idea or overused expression | 32 | |
| 15725383444 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 33 | |
| 15725383445 | elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation | 34 | |
| 15725383446 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 35 |
