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techniques or persuasive laungage
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alliteration | is the repetition or initial consonant sounds in order to emphasize certain words and make them more memorable |
adjectives | are descriptive words used to add emphasis and to create an emotional response |
anecdotes | are short personal stories used to connect with the audience and add evidence or credibility to an argument. |
asyndeton | is a figure of speech in which coordinates conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so that join words or clauses in a sentence into relationships of equal importance are omitted. |
assertion | is when an idea is presented as fact without full explanation or evidence it is used to assert authority and make claims sound factual. |
attacks | are when a speaker/writer addresses an opposing view or speaker and attacks their argument or character |
bias | is the presentation of only one side of an issue or viewpoint and is used to subjectively influence an audience |
connotation | is the ideas or feeling that a certain word invokes and is used to create certain emotional responses in an audience |
Ethos (credibility) | think"i'm The Expert" is the establishment of authority and reliability, and is used gain the confidence and trust or the audience |
Pathos(Emotion or pity) | is feelings accentuated by experiencing love, hate, fear,etc. An appeal to emotion is used to engage with an audience and create an emotional response |
exaggeration | is the respresentation of something as greater than is actually the case and is used to grab the attention of the audience and empasize certain points. |
evidence | is the facts or information that indicate whether a view is true or valid and is used to give weight to an argument or belief. |
connotation | the array of emotions and ideas suggested by a word in additon to its dictionary definition. most words carry meanings , impressions ,or associations apart from or beyond their literal meaning |
denotation | is the literal dictionary meaning or a word. diction is a author's or poets word choice. |
figurative launguage | is used to create imagery and express things non-literally it can help to make an idea more emotive, vivid and convincing |
generalization | is the infrence that a claim is true for most people or a majority and is used to speak to prevailing beleifs or prejudices or an audience. |
rule of three | is when groups of 3 adjectives or phrases are used to make ideas more memorable. |
jargon | is special words or expression used by a professions or certain group it is used to signal expertise and expertise and establish credibility. |
loaded words | are words charges with an underlying meaning or implication and are used to produce emotion in an audience. |
pronouns | are words that take the place or nouns and are used to create a sense of unity with an audience or distance from a commom enemy . |
Logos (facts and statistics ) | is the power of the mind to think and form judgements logically it is used to appeal to the rationality or the audience. |
meiosis | is a figure of sppech that minimizes the importance of something through euphemise. |
repetition | is the reoccurrence of cetain words or phases and it is used to emphasize certain ideas, and make them more memorable. |
rhetorical questions | are statements which are voiced as questions but are NOT expected to be a |