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| 14953872214 | audience | The listener, viewer, or reader of a text. Most texts are likely to have multiple _________. | 0 | |
| 14953872215 | concession | An acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. In a strong argument, a _______________ is usually accompanied by a refutation challenging the validity of the opposing argument. | 1 | |
| 14953872216 | connotation | Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation. _____________ are usually positive or negative, and they can greatly affect the author's tone. | 2 | |
| 14953872217 | context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text | 3 | |
| 14953872218 | counterargument | An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward. Rather than ignoring a ___________, a strong writer will usually address it through the process of concession and refutation.. | 4 | |
| 14953872219 | ethos | Greek for "character." Speakers appeal to _______ to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic. _______ is established by both who you are and what you say. | 5 | |
| 14953872220 | logos | Greek for "embodied thought." Speakers appeal to _________, or reason, by offering clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up. | 6 | |
| 14953872221 | pathos | Greek for "suffering" or "experience." Speakers appeal to _________ to emotionally motivate their audience. More specific appeals to ________ might play on the audience's values, desires, and hopes, on the one hand, or fears and prejudices, on the other. | 7 | |
| 14953872222 | occasion | The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written. | 8 | |
| 14953872223 | persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. | 9 | |
| 14953872224 | polemic | Greek for "hostile." An aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others. ___________ generally do not concede that opposing opinions have any merit. | 10 | |
| 14953872225 | propaganda | The spread of ideas and information to further a cause. In its negative sense, the use of rumors, lies, disinformation, and scare tactics in order to damage or promote a cause. | 11 | |
| 14953872226 | purpose | The goal the speaker wants to achieve. | 12 | |
| 14953872227 | refutation | A denial of the validity of an opposing argument. In order to sound reasonable, _________ often follow a concession that acknowledges that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. | 13 | |
| 14953872228 | rhetoric | "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." In other words, it is the art of finding ways to persuade an audience. | 14 | |
| 14953872229 | rhetorical appeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. The three major __________ are to ethos (character), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion). | 15 | |
| 14953872230 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 16 | |
| 14953872231 | SOAPS | It is a handy way to remember the various elements that make up the rhetorical situation. | 17 | |
| 14953872232 | speaker | The person or group who creates a text. This might be a politician who delivers a speech, a commentator who writes an article, an artist who draws a political cartoon, or even a company that commissions an advertisement. | 18 | |
| 14953872233 | subject | The topic of a text. What the text is about. | 19 | |
| 14953872234 | text | While this term generally means the written word, in the humanities it has come to mean any cultural product that can be "read"-meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated. This includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, political cartoons, fine art, photography, performances, fashion, cultural trends, and much more. | 20 | |
| 14953872235 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. | 21 | |
| 14953872236 | allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. | 22 | |
| 14953872237 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. | 23 | |
| 14953872238 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order. | 24 | |
| 14953872239 | antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. | 25 | |
| 14953872240 | archaic diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. | 26 | |
| 14953872241 | asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. | 27 | |
| 14953872242 | cumulative sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on. | 28 | |
| 14953872243 | hortative sentence | Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action. | 29 | |
| 14953872244 | imperative sentence | Sentence used to command or enjoin. | 30 | |
| 14953872245 | inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order). | 31 | |
| 14953872246 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences. | 32 | |
| 14953872247 | metaphor | Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. | 33 | |
| 14953872248 | oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another. | 34 | |
| 14953872249 | parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 35 | |
| 14953872250 | periodic sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end. | 36 | |
| 14953872251 | personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. | 37 | |
| 14953872252 | rhetorical question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. | 38 | |
| 14953872253 | synecdoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. | 39 | |
| 14953872254 | zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings. | 40 | |
| 14953886544 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 41 | |
| 14953886545 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 42 | |
| 14953886546 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 43 | |
| 14953886547 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 44 |
