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| 7266110433 | Rhetoric | the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion. | 0 | |
| 7266110434 | Texts | cultural products that can be read and investigated-- both visual and written messages | 1 | |
| 7266110435 | Occasion | the time and place the text was written or spoken | 2 | |
| 7266110436 | Context | the circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding the text: Writers always write in response to a rhetorical situation (time, place, circumstances; context) that affects their decisions about what they say and how they say it. | 3 | |
| 7266110437 | Purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 4 | |
| 7266110438 | Speaker | the person or group who creates the text | 5 | |
| 7266110440 | Audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text or performance, there may be multiple audiences | 6 | |
| 7266110441 | Subject | the topic | 7 | |
| 7266110442 | SOAPS | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker. A mnemonic device that offers a practical way to approach the concept of the rhetorical situation | 8 | |
| 7266110443 | Rhetorical Appeals | the tools of rhetoric to persuade an audience: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos | 9 | |
| 7266110444 | Ethos | demonstrate that a speaker is credible and trustworthy | 10 | |
| 7266110445 | Logos | reason, speakers appeal to logos by offering clear, rational ideas | 11 | |
| 7266110449 | Pathos | an appeal to emotions, values, desires, and hopes on the one hand or fears and prejudices on the other | 12 | |
| 7266110450 | Persona | the role, attitude, personality a writer assumes in order to achieve a literary purpose | 13 | |
| 7295295465 | Rhetorical Triangle | The relationship between the speaker/writer, audience and the subject/purpose |  | 14 |
| 7295302758 | Traditional Canons of Rhetoric | invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery | 15 | |
| 7295305220 | Invention | how writers generate their ideas so that they are most effective for the audience | 16 | |
| 7295311204 | Arrangement | organization that will lead to an effective text : introduction, statement of facts, division, proof, refutation, conclusion | 17 | |
| 7295317777 | Exordium (introduction) | the part of an argument that introduces the reader to the subject under discussion, draws the reader in by piquing interest | 18 | |
| 7295326988 | Narratio (statement of Facts) | provides factual information and background material on the subject; logos and some pathos | 19 | |
| 7295333618 | Partitio (division) | outlines what will follow | 20 | |
| 7295359742 | Confirmatio (Proof) | development needed to make the writer's case; evidence | 21 | |
| 7295362192 | Refutatio (Refutation) | addresses the counterargument | 22 | |
| 7295397067 | counterargument | an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward | 23 | |
| 7295399382 | Peroratio (conclusion) | reminds reader of ethos, pathos, answers the "so what" question - | 24 | |
| 7295403261 | style | choices writers make with sentences and words; artful expression of ideas | 25 | |
| 7295406413 | Memory | writer taps into the "cultural memory" of their audience; also, what devices will the writer use to help his/her audience remember the text and its message | 26 | |
| 7295410404 | Modes of writing | an organizational method for presenting information in a text (narration, cause and effect,) | 27 | |
| 7295417116 | genre | what type of method of delivery: letter, speech, essay, | 28 | |
| 7295439249 | didls | diction, imagery details, language, syntax | 29 | |
| 7295440593 | diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 30 | |
| 7296340492 | imagery | Language/Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 31 |
| 7296347830 | details | the facts given by the author or speaker as support for the attitude or tone | 32 | |
| 7296352151 | figurative language | Words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation: metaphors, similes, personification, symbols, hyperbole |  | 33 |
| 7296361259 | syntax | the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | 34 | |
| 7313301799 | tone | an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience |  | 35 |
