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Rhetorical Analysis
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ethos | Appeal that connects to readers' sense of ethics |
| Pathos | Appeal that connects to the readers' emotions |
| Logos | Appeal that connects to the reader's sense of logic or reasoning |
| Appositive | word or phrase placed next to a noun or pronoun that supplements its meaning |
| Antecedent | A word or phrase that a pronoun stands for |
| Adage | A folk saying that teaches a moral lesson |
| Allusion | Indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or text |
| Aphorism | terse statement that expresses a truth |
| Anecdote | Brief reading of a relevant story. Usually to illustrate a point |
| Diction | word choice |
| Colloquial diction | an ordinary or familiar type of every day speech |
| Jargon diction | The language of those in a similar activity or occupation |
| Vernacular diction | language or dialect of a specific region |
| Denotation | A words dictionary definition |
| Connotation | The emotional baggage of a word |
| Euphemism | a nicer less offensive substitute for unpleasant ideas |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| Imagery | Descriptive language that appeals to the sense |
| Understatement | minimizing something often for humor |
| Analogy | a comparison between a set of information and another set of parallel information. |
| Metaphor | Comparing 2 things without using like or as |
| personification | Giving human qualities to non-human things |
| Simile | Comparing 2 things using like or as |
| Metonymy | Replacing and actual word or idea with a related concept |
| Syntax | A grammatical grouping of words |
| Parallelism | Sentences have similar or identical grammatical patterns to each other to add emphasis, improve organization, or affect the pace of the text |
| Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of 2 or more sentences or clauses in a row |
| Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in a row, but in different format |
| Epistrophe | the repetition of a word,phrase, or clause at the end of 2 or more sentences or clauses in a row |
| Ad Hominem | Attacking the speakers credibility or trustworthiness instead of their argument |
| Bandwagon | The idea that if many people believe or support something, then it must be true or worthy |
| Hasty | A conclusion or generalization based on a data sample that is too small or unrepresented |
| Slippery slope | claiming if A is allowed to happen then z will eventually happen too, so A should not happen |
| Tone | the authors attitude toward the subject of the text |
| Juxtaposition | Placing two things next to each other for the purpose of comparison and in order to make a point |
| Satire | A work that relies on humor |
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