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| the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle it is the "available means of persuasion" | ||
| patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; examples include narration, description, comparison, contrast, cause/effect, definition, argumentation | ||
| question asked to produce an effect rather than an answer | ||
| diagram to represent a rhetorical situation as the relationship among speaker, subject, and audience | ||
| ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something but actually argues against it | ||
| pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | ||
| arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions | ||
| using variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | ||
| figure of speech using "like" or "as" to compare two things | ||
| statement with subject and predicate; independent clause | ||
| book, article, person consulted for intormation | ||
| term for author, speaker, or person whose perspective is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | ||
| logical fallacy involving the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | ||
| distinctive quality of speech or writing created by selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | ||
| in rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | ||
| created by subordinating conjunction, clause that modifies an independent clause | ||
| dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | ||
| form of deductive reasoning in which the conclustion is supported by a major and minor premise | ||
| sentence structure | ||
| combining together two or more elements to produce something more complex |
