chapter one vocab

Question 1

audience

Answer 1

the listener, viewer, reader of a text

Most texts are likely to have multiple audiences

Question 2

concession

Answer 2

an acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reation in a stronf argument usually accompaoned by a refutation challenging thr validity of the opposing argunment

Question 3

connotion

Answer 3

meaning or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition or denotation usually positive or negative anf they can greatly affect the authors tone

Question 4

context

Answer 4

the circumstances armophere attiudes and events surrounding a text

Question 5

counterargument

Answer 5

a opposing argument to one a writer is puttinf forward writers usally address it with concession and reutation

Question 6

ethos

Answer 6

character established by both who you are and what you say

Question 7

logos

Answer 7

emboied thought

Question 8

occasion

Answer 8

the time and place a speech is givin or a pice os writen

Question 9

pathos

Answer 9

suffering or experince used to motivate

Question 10

persona

Answer 10

mask the face or character thar a speaker shows to their audinece

Question 11

polemic

Answer 11

hostile establish superiorty

Question 12

propagansa

Answer 12

speard of ideas and infos

Question 13

purpose

Answer 13

the goal the speaker wants to achieve

Question 14

refutation

Answer 14

a denial of the validity of an opposing argument

Question 15

rhetoric

Answer 15

the art of finding ways to persuade an audience

Question 16

rhetorical appeals

Answer 16

used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most imporant

Question 17

rheroeical triangle

Answer 17

a diagram that illustrated the interrelatioship among the speaker audience and subject in a determining a text

Question 18

speaker

Answer 18

the person or group who creats the text

Question 19

subejct

Answer 19

topic of the text

Question 20

text

Answer 20

something that can be read