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Term | Definition |
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Ethos | appeals to the speaker's status and authority |
Pathos | appeals to the emotions, trying to make the audience feel angry or sympathetic, for example. |
Logos | appeals to the audience’s reason, building up logical arguments |
Personification | a poetic literary device in which non-living things are given human traits |
Connotation | the use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning, which is known as denotation. For example, blue is a color, but it is also a word used to describe a feeling of sadness, as in: “She's feeling blue.” |
Antithetical phrase | one that is opposed or opposite |
appositive | a noun or phrase that renames or describes the noun to which it is next. |
interjection | an exclamation like "WOW" |