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| 6729881609 | Rhetoric | The study of the techniques of effective language usage in the context of persuasion and argumentation. | 0 | |
| 6729881590 | Context | The time and place in which a work is generated, including particularly important cultural, historical, and social events or phenomena. | 1 | |
| 6729881591 | Exigence | The event that compelled or inspired the writer or speaker to compose a work. | 2 | |
| 6729881592 | Audience | The listeners or readership; also, the individuals to whom the speech is intentionally directed toward. | 3 | |
| 6729881593 | Purpose | The intention or objective of a speech; also, the impact a speaker desires to have on the audience. | 4 | |
| 6729881594 | Logos | Appeals to logic or reasoning, generally consisting of a variety of evidence types. | 5 | |
| 6729881595 | Ethos | Appeals to ethics, credibility, and authority, generally focused on information about the speaker. | 6 | |
| 6729881596 | Pathos | Appeals to emotion and audience engagement, generally focused on language usage. | 7 | |
| 6729987727 | Rhetorical Mode | Refers to the various text structure an author uses to organize his or her ideas in a cohesive manner. | 8 | |
| 6729881597 | Diction | The choice of words for the purpose of achieving various effects upon the audience. | 9 | |
| 6729881598 | Syntax | The structure of sentences, often examined in the context of langauge patterns and poetic arrangements. | 10 | |
| 6729881599 | Figurative Language | Unusual uses of language, often consisting of comparisons and exaggerations for the purpose of achieving certain effects upon the audience. | 11 | |
| 6729881600 | Imagery | Language that activates our five senses. | 12 | |
| 6729881601 | Anecdote | A personal story related to the subject matter and intended to prove a particular point. | 13 | |
| 6729881602 | Allusion | A reference to a historical or literary event or figure, often intended to draw comparisons or prove a point. | 14 | |
| 6729881603 | Hyperbole | The use of extreme exaggeration meant to express strong emotion or evoke laughter. | 15 | |
| 6729881604 | Personification | Imbuing inhuman or inanimate objects with human traits. | 16 | |
| 6729881605 | Simile | A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" to examine similarities. | 17 | |
| 6729881606 | Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things without "like" or "as" that nevertheless have similar aspects or traits. | 18 | |
| 6729960677 | Parallelism | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical construction near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns. | 19 | |
| 6729955324 | Anaphora | Repetition or a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. | 20 | |
| 6729955323 | Antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. | 21 | |
| 6729881608 | Repetition | The repeated use of the same word or phrase to create an effect upon the audience, especially to emphasize a the drama and importance of a point. | 22 | |
| 6729881610 | Tone | The attitude of the speaker toward her subject, influenced by diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax. | 23 | |
| 6729881611 | Mood | The emotional atmosphere or the work, i.e., the desired emotional impact of the work upon the audience. | 24 | |
| 6729890678 | Persona | A character or figurative mask that an actor, speaker, or writer takes on for a given performance or text. | 25 | |
| 6729914600 | Active Voice | Grammatical construction in which the subject of the sentence performs the action. | 26 | |
| 6729918796 | Passive Voice | Grammatical construction in which the subject of the sentence receives the action. | 27 | |
| 6729925900 | Satire | A work intended to expose or reveal some fault or human folly to some humorous effect. | 28 | |
| 6732846254 | Paradox | A statement that is self contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time. | 29 | |
| 6729969319 | Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen does. | 30 | |
| 6729938426 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence in which the main idea (often the independent clause) is not completed until the end of a sentence. | 31 | |
| 6729942043 | Loose Sentence | A sentence in which the main idea (often the independent clause) is articulated at the beginning of a sentence, followed by a subordinate clause. | 32 |
