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Stack #4642585
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adjectives | descriptive words used to add emphasis and to create an emotional response |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in order to emphasize certain words and make them memorable |
| Anecdotes | short personal stories used to connect with the audience and add evidence or credibility |
| Asyndeton | A figure of speech in which coordinating conjunctions are committed (for, and, nor, but, or, yet) |
| Assertion | When an idea is presented as fact without full explanation or evidence; it is used to assert authority and make claims sound factual |
| Attacks | When a speaker/writer addresses an opposing view or speaker and attacks their argument or character |
| bias | presentation of only one side of an issue or viewpoint and is used to subjectively influence and audience |
| connotation | the ideas or feelings that a certain word invokes and is used to relate certain word invokes in an audience |
| Ethos (credibility) | "I'm the expert" the establishment of authority and reliability, and is used to gain confidence and trust of the audience |
| Pathos (emotion or pity) | feelings accentuated by experiencing love, hate, fear, ect. An appeal to emotion is used to create emotional response |
| Exaggeration | representing something as greater than it actually is, used to grab the attention of the audience and emphasize certain points |
| evidence | 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 addition to its dictionary definition. Most words carry meanings, impressions, or associations apart from their literal meaning |
| Denotation | the literal dictionary meaning of a word. |
| Diction | the authors word choice |
| Figurative language | used to create imagery and express non-literally, it can help to make an idea more emotive, vivid and convincing |
| Generalization | the inference that a claim is true for most people or a majority and is used to speak to prevailing beliefs or prejudices of an audience |
| Rule of 3 | when groups of 3 adjectives or phrases are used to make ideas more memorable |
| Jargon | special words or expressions used by a profession or certain group; it is used to signal expertise and establish credibility |
| Loaded words | words charged with an underlying meaning or implication and are used to produce emotion in an audience |
| Pronouns | words that take place of nouns and are used to create a sense of unity with an audience or distance from a certain common enemy |
| Logos(facts and statistics) | power of the mind to think and form judgements logically; it is used to appeal to the rationality of an audience |
| Meiosis | a figure of speech that minimizes of something through euphemism |
| Euphemism | a word or phrase that softens an uncomfortable topic Kicked the bucked= death between jobs= unemployed |
| Repetition | reoccurrence of certain words or phrases and is used to emphasize certain ideas, and make them more memorable |
| Rhetorical Questions | statements which are voiced as questions but are not expected to be answered; they are used to imply certain answers and draws to certain conclusions |
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