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| 7285187299 | Audience | Listener, viewer, or reader of a text. | 0 | |
| 7285187300 | Concession | Acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. | 1 | |
| 7285187301 | Connotation | Meaning or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictonary definition | 2 | |
| 7285187302 | Context | Circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and evenets surrounding a text. | 3 | |
| 7285187303 | Counterargument | An opposing argument to the one a writer us putting forward | 4 | |
| 7285187304 | Ethos | Greek for "character" speakers appeal to ethos to demonstrate that they are credible and trustwortht to speak on a given topic | 5 | |
| 7285187305 | Logos | Greek for "embodied thought". Speakers appeal to logos, or reason, bh offering clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, oe expert testimony to back them up. | 6 | |
| 7285187306 | Occasion | The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 7 | |
| 7285187307 | Pathos | Greek for "suffering" or "experience". Speakers appeal to pathos ro emotionally motivate their audience. | 8 | |
| 7285187308 | Persona | Greek for "mask". The face or charscter that a speaker shows to his audience. | 9 | |
| 7285187309 | Polemic | Greek for "hostile". An agressive argument that tries to establish that superiority of ones opninokn over all the others. | 10 | |
| 7285187310 | Propaganda | The spead if ideas and info. to further a cause. In its negative sense, propaganda is the use of rumors, lies, disinformation, and scare tactics in order to damage or promite a cause | 11 | |
| 7285187311 | Purpose | The goal the speaker wants to achive | 12 | |
| 7285187312 | Refutation | A denial of the validity of an opposing argument. | 13 | |
| 7285187313 | Rhetoric | As aristotle defined the term, "the faculty of observing in any given case the availabke means of persuasion" in kther words, it is the art of finding ways to persuade an audience. | 14 | |
| 7285187314 | Rhetorical appeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by cmphasizing what they find most important or compelling | 15 | |
| 7285187315 | Rhetoric Triangle | A diagram that illistrates the unterrelationship among the speaker, audience, ans subject in determining a text. | 16 | |
| 7285187316 | SOAPS | A mnemonic device that stands for subject, occasion, audience l, purpose, and speaker. | 17 | |
| 7285187317 | Speaker | A person or group who creates a text | 18 | |
| 7285187318 | Subject | The topic of a text | 19 | |
| 7285187319 | Text | Written word, in the humanitites jt has coem to mean any cultural product that can be "read" | 20 |
