Rhetoric

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rhetoric

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art of persuasion

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audience

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the group or individual to whom a speech or written work is directed to

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3 rhetoric appeals

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ethos logos and pathos

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ethos

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appeal to credibility of the speaker; also appeals to your values/ beliefs

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intrinsic ethos

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created from within the text from style and tone and the authors treatment of differring viewpoints.

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extrinsic ethos

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comes from the outside the text; authors reputation

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pathos

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appeal to emotion

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logos

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an appeal logic and reasoning

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rhetorical devices

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techniques to make language more memorable and persuasive.

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rhetorical question

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a question asked in a way that no answer is expected or needed

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parrallelism

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use of a series of words, phrases or sentences that have similar grammatical form

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anaphora

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repition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences

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connotative diction

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writers choice of words because of their association or implications

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euphemism

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substitution of an inoffensive term (passed away to died)

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imagery

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painting pictures with words through the use of sensory language

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repetition

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repeating the same word or group of words

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hyperbole

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extreme exaggeration

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simile

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comparing two seemingly unlike things using “like” or “as”

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metaphor

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a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between not using like and as

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oxymoron

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contradictory terms appear side by side (bittersweet)

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juxtaposition

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two things being seen or placed colse together with contrasting affect (living and dead)

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antithesis

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two opposite ideas in parallel structure

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polysyndeton

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several conjunctions are used to join clauses, phrases or words in places where they are not necessary

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asyndeton

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ommission or absense of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

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allusion

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indirect reference to a person, place or event, reak or fictional

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ancedote

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short intresting story taken from a persons past to create an emotional response

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tone

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writers additude toward the subject audience and self

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PIGMACE

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person intention genre message audience context exigence