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Rhetoric Is the art of persuasion.
Logos Is a Rhetorical appeal to reason and logic.An argument that uses logos to persuade needs to provide things like objective evidence,hard facts,statistics,and/or logical argumentation
Ethos Is a rhetorical appeal to the speaker's credibility and/or character- whether or not the speaker should be believed based on her expertise and her personality.
Pathos Is a rhetorical appeal to the emotions of the audience.
Diction "word choice"
Syntax Is the ordering of words in a sentence.
Cohesion Refers to how well an argument flows.strong arguments are cohesive because each sentence leads clearly and logically to the next sentence.
Structure and Organization Often refer to the arrangement of paragraphs in an argument.strong arguments build from one paragraph to the next.
Faulty Analogy is an illogical,misleading comparison between two things.
Synecdoche Is when a part of something is used to represent the whole.
Aphorism is a concise,pithy statement of an opinion or a general truth.
Malapropism Is the unintentional use of a word that resembles the word intended but that has a very different meaning.
Circumlocution the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea. "talking around a subject" or "talking around a word"
Euphemism Is a word or words that are used to avoid employing an unpleasant or offensive term.
Satire Something is portrayed in a way that's deliberately distorted to achieve comic effect.
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