audience | | establishment of authority |
concession | | logos, pathos, ethos |
connotation | | a command |
context | | piece of writing |
counterargument | | Setting foot on the moon is one small step for man, but one giant step for mankind" |
ethos | | a literary device used in argumentative writing where one acknowledges a point made by ones opponent |
logos | | message, speaker and audience |
occasion | | the reason a text was created |
pathos | | appealing to a persons reasoning or logic |
persona | | an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theoryd developed in another argument |
polemic | | anything beyond the specific words of a literary work that is relevant to the meaning |
propaganda | | how someone is perceived by others |
purpose | | when the normal order of words is reversed aka anastrophe |
refutation | | choice or words urging to some course of action or conduct |
rhetoric | | a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. |
rhetorical triangle | | group of readers to whom this piece id directed |
rhetorical appeals | | "Without looking, without making a sound, without talking" |
speaker | | "Fair is foul and foul is fair" |
subject | | a verbal or written attack on of someone or something |
text | | "cruel kindness, or living death" |
alliteration | | the person telling the story |
allusion | | words and phrases that are no longer in use or are outdated |
anaphora | | appealing to emotions such as fear, sympathy, sadness, happiness etc |
antimetabole | | biased information used to promote a particular point of view or political cause |
antithesis | | "She is all states and all princes, I" |
archaic diction | | what the piece of writing is about |
asyndeton | | effective persuasion in the form of speaking and or writing |
horative sentence | | "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew" |
imperative sentence | | a meaning implied by a word |
inversion | | challenging a statement or belief |
juxtaposition | | "Five long years have passed; Five summers, with the length of five long winters! |
metaphor | | an indirect or passing reference |
oxymoron | | the time and place of the piece/what prompted the writing |