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Audience

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One’s listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed

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Rhetoric

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The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the “available means of persuasion”

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Context

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Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning

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Purpose

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One’s intension or objective in a speech or piece of writing

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Bias

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Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue

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Thesis

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The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer

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Claim

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An assertion, usually supported by evidence

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Assertion

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An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument

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Subject

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In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing

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Speaker

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A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing

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Rhetorical Triangle

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A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience

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Aristotelian Triangle

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A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience

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Persona

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The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece if writing

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Ethos

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Appeal to character to demonstrate that they are trustworthy

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Logos

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Appeal to logic, contains facts, examples, and statistics

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Pathos

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Appeal to emotion

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Tone

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The speakers attitude toward the subject or audience

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Counter argument

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A challenge to a position; an opposing statement

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Assumption

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A belief or statement taken for granted without proof

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Concede

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Agree

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Refute

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To discredit an argument, particularly a counter argument

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Connotations

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That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the words literally meaning

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Propagandistic

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Pertaining to propaganda (advertisement)

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Polemical

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An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion

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Avante Gard

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The suggestion that using this product puts the user ahead of the times

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Magic ingredients

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The suggestion that some almost miraculous discover makes the product exceptionally effective

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Patriotism

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The suggestion that purchasing this product shows your love of the country

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Transfer

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Positive words integers and ideas are used to suggest that the product being sold is positive

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Plain folks

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The suggestion that the product is a practical product for good value for ordinary people

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Snob appeal

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The suggestion that the use of the product makes a good customer part of me you elite group within the jury is in glamorous lifestyle

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Bribery

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Offers bring you something extra with the product

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Bandwagon

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The suggestion that you should join the crowd or be on the winning side by using a product- you don’t want to be the only one without it

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Stereotype

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Nf

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Alliteration

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Depiction of words with the same sounds

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Allusion

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Brief reference to to a person event or place

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Anaphora

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Religion of words or phrases at the beginning of successful phrases

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Antimetabole

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Repition of words in reverse order

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Antithesis

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Opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

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Asyndeton

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Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
[w]e shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any for to assure the survival and the success of liberty

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Cumulative Sentence

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Sentence that completed the main ideas at the beginning of the sentence, and the. Builds and adds on

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Hortative Sentence

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Sentence that exhorts, advices, cal to action

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us

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Juxtaposition

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Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts