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20 Cards in this Set
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logos |
appeal to logic |
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pathos |
emotions |
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ethos |
experience |
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rhetoric |
writing to inform or persuade |
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trope |
using a word in a way other than its intended meaning |
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propoganda |
info, often biased, to support and arguement |
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synedoche |
a part is used to mean the whole or vice versa |
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metonymy |
replace name of something for its characteristic suit for a buisness guy |
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scheme |
change in syntax |
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litotes |
a negative understatment she is not a bad cook |
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chiasmus |
first clause of two parellel clauses is reversed in the second has the church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the church? |
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assonance |
succession of similar vowel sounds |
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consonance |
repition of consonant sounds, different vowels pitter patter slish splash |
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anaphora |
repition of word/words at beginning of a clause |
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parallelism |
several parts of a sentence or multiple sentences are expressed similarily |
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asyndeton |
omitting conjunctions between phrases |
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apostrophe |
something is adressed as if it were there |
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euphemism |
a word is substituted for another that is considered rougher |
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anastrophe |
inversion of words/clauses |
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polysyndeton |
repition of conjunctions |
