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Rhetorical Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| audience | the listener, viewer or reader |
| concession | acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable |
| connotation | meanings or associations that readers may have with a word |
| context | the circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events |
| counterargument | an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward. |
| ethos | credibility and trustworthiness |
| logos | using logic, numbers, facts and statistics |
| occasion | the time and place a speech is given |
| pathos | appealing to an emotional side of the audience |
| persona | the face or character that a speaker is showing |
| polemic | an aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority |
| propaganda | the spread of ideas to further a cause(advertise) |
| purpose | the goal a speaker wants to achieve |
| refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing statement |
| rhetoric | the art of persuading an audience through text/imagery |
| rhetorical appeals | techniques used to appeal to and persuade an audience |
| rhetorical triangle | speaker, audience, subject in a text |
| SOAPS | subject, occasion, audience, purpose and speaker |
| speaker | person or group who creates and may be saying the text |
| subject | the topic of a text |
| text | written/ preformed pieces such as fiction, nonfiction and more |
| alliteration | repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in the sequence |
| allusion | brief references to a person, event or place(real of fictitious) or to a work of art |
| anaphora | repetition of words of phrase at the begging of successive phrases, clauses or line |
| antimetable | repetition of words in reverse order |
| antithesis | opposition, contrast of ideas or words in parallel construction |
| archaic diction | old fashioned or outdated choice of words |
| asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinated phrases, clauses or words |
| cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence then builds and adds on |
| hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores or calls to action |
| imperative sentence | sentence use to command or enjoin |
| inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence(variation of the subject-verb-object order) |
| juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences |
| metaphor | figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as |
| oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another |
| parallelism | similarity of structure in pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses |
| periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is witheld until the end |
| personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea |
| rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question pose for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer |
| synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole |
| zeugma | use of two different words in grammatically similar way that produces different,, often incongruous, meanings |
| chiasmus | |
| epistrophe | |
| hypophora | |
| apostrophe | |
| irony | |
| pun | |
| litotes |
Created by:
KhaleyS2020
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