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Definition of etymology
The study of the origin of words
define rhetoric
persuasive speaking or writing, means speaker/master orator - comes from rhetor
How are Aristotle Plato and Socratices connected
Socrates taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle
3 parts of rhetorical triangle
Speaker, Audience, Message
Who is the speaker
The author
Who is the audience
The reader
what is the subject
the topic on which the story have to be written.
define SOAPSTONE
speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, tone
Definition of rhetoric from Plato and Aristotle
Plato: “rhetoric is the art of enchanting the soul”
Aristotle: Rhetoric is “the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.”
Ethos, Pathos, Logos appeal
persuasion - ethos credibility/pathos emotions/logos facts
difference between tone and mood
Tone: The authors attitude toward a subject
Mood: how the author makes you feel
what goes under style
Diction and Syntax
difference between diction and syntax
Diction: the choice of words
Syntax: How the words are arranged in a sentence
connotation
The emotional suggestions of a word
denotation
The direct definition of the word