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| 8916234685 | Rhetorical Appeals | Tools of rhetoric to persuade an audience. |  | 0 |
| 8916234686 | Context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes and events surrounding the text. |  | 1 |
| 8916234687 | Logos | An appeal to logic or reason, using statistics and data in an argument. |  | 2 |
| 8916234688 | Persona | The difference between the person who speaks in real life and the role he plays when delivering the speech. |  | 3 |
| 8916234689 | Concession | Agreeing, especially to a counterargument. |  | 4 |
| 8916234690 | Counterargument | objections or opposing views to an article or speaker's argument. |  | 5 |
| 8916234691 | Occasion | The time and place an article talks about or takes place in. |  | 6 |
| 8916234692 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes on a person. |  | 7 |
| 8916234693 | Ethos | An appeal to credibility or character in an argument. |  | 8 |
| 8916234694 | Pathos | An appeal to emotions in an argument. |  | 9 |
| 8916234695 | Propaganda | Information, usually biased, used to promote a political cause or point of view. |  | 10 |
| 8916234696 | Purpose | The reason someone wrote the article: main objective to change something |  | 11 |
| 8916234697 | Rhetoric | The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion |  | 12 |
| 8916234698 | Refutation | To refuse a counterargument or other argument; deny its validity |  | 13 |
| 8916234699 | Polemic | A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something. |  | 14 |
| 8916259948 | Ad Hominem | appealing to personal considerations rather than to reason - usually taking the form of a personal attack on one's opponent. |  | 15 |
| 8916270698 | Allusion | passing reference or indirect mention |  | 16 |
| 8916275005 | Analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity |  | 17 |
| 8916278573 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses |  | 18 |
| 8916283525 | Anecdote | short account of an incident |  | 19 |
| 8916286104 | Antecedent | a preceding occurrence or cause or event |  | 20 |
| 8916288100 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas for balance |  | 21 |
| 8916291458 | Apostrophe | an address to an absent or imaginary person |  | 22 |
| 8916294260 | Asyndenton | omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used |  | 23 |
| 8916297826 | Polysyndenton | using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') |  | 24 |
| 8916306191 | Caricature | a representation of a person exaggerated for comic effect |  | 25 |
| 8916309498 | Chiasmus | inversion in the second of two parallel phrases |  | 26 |
| 8916314338 | Diction | the manner in which something is expressed in words |  | 27 |
| 8916317139 | Ellipsis | omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences |  | 28 |
| 8916321549 | Epigram | a witty saying |  | 29 |
| 8916323563 | Epigraph | a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing |  | 30 |
| 8916329754 | Euphemism | an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one |  | 31 |
| 8916333579 | Exposition | a systematic interpretation or explanation of a topic |  | 32 |
| 8916338630 | Generalization | the process of abstracting common properties of instances |  | 33 |
| 8916341959 | Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |  | 34 |
| 8916345678 | Idiom | expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words |  | 35 |
| 8916349807 | Sensory | involving or derived from the senses |  | 36 |
| 8916353063 | Implication | a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred |  | 37 |
| 8916357920 | Inference | drawing a conclusion on the basis of circumstantial evidence | 38 | |
| 8916360924 | Invective | abusive language used to express blame or censure |  | 39 |
| 8916363402 | Inversion | the reversal of the normal order of words |  | 40 |
| 8916366314 | Jargon | technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject |  | 41 |
| 8916368713 | Juxtaposition | the act of positioning close together |  | 42 |
| 8916383009 | Litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect |  | 43 |
| 8916386405 | Malapropism | misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar |  | 44 |
| 8916392008 | Maxim | a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits |  | 45 |
| 8916395773 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity |  | 46 |
| 8916397922 | Metonym | substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing |  | 47 |
| 8916405607 | non-sequitur | a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it |  | 48 |
| 8916411237 | Objectivity | judgment based on observable phenomena |  | 49 |
| 8916417161 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms |  | 50 |
| 8916422428 | Paradox | a statement that contradicts itself and remains true |  | 51 |
| 8916425126 | Parallelism | similarity by virtue of corresponding |  | 52 |
| 8916430402 | Paraphrase | express the same message in different words |  | 53 |
| 8916435687 | reductio ad absurdum | (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction |  | 54 |
| 8916437716 | Resolution | the logical ending of a piece of writing, speech, or narrative |  | 55 |
| 8916441488 | Rhetoric | using language effectively to please or persuade |  | 56 |
| 8916443934 | Subjective | judgment based on individual impressions and feelings |  | 57 |
| 8916460876 | Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | 58 | |
| 8916462775 | Zuegma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ) |  | 59 |
