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LANG Vocab 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polemic | a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something. |
| Propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular cause, doctrine, or point of view. |
| Purpose | the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. |
| Refutation | the action of proving a statement or theory to be wrong or false. |
| Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. |
| Rhetorical Triangle | Ethos, Logos, Pathos |
| SOAPS | Speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject |
| Speaker | Person / voice of a literary voice (likely the author) |
| Subject | The general topic, content, or main idea of the text. It is what the author is writing about. |
| Text | anything that conveys a set of meanings to the person who examines it |