Types Of Evidence (rhetorical Devices) Flashcards
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Anecdote
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Short story from past
2
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Analogie
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Comparing two things
3
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Alliteration
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Makes argument more poetic and appealing (sally sells sea shells)
4
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Compelling words
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To persuade the reader
5
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Metaphor
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To create a connection (this is this: you light up my life)
6
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Negative assertiveness
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Proving a point by showing the bad in others, or what they lack
7
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Parallelism
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Make memorable (they are eating, they are playing)
8
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Rhetorical questions
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Answer curiosity of readers
9
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Statistics
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Numbers
10
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Testimony
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Use personal experience or “eye witness” accounts
11
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Other types of evidence:
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Details, examples, expert opinion, experiments, personal observations, personal experiments, repetition, researches.
