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22 Cards in this Set
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A speech or figure to arouse emotion
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Pathopoeia
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The appeal to emotion
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Pathos
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Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite
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Litotes
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The informal method of reasoning typical of rhetorical discourse. A truncated syllogism
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Enthymeme
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Turning one's speech from one audience to another, or addressing oneself to an abstraction or the absent -almost always as a way of increasing appeal through emotion
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Apostrophe
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A figure of reasoning in which one asks and then immediately answers one's own questions
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Anthypophora
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A commandment, promise, or exhortation intended to move one;s consent or desires
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Adhoratio
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The rejection of several reasons why a thing should or should not be done and affirming a single one, considered most valid
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Apophasis
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Vivid description, especially of the consequences of an act, that stirs up its hearers
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Descriptio
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To excite an audience, especially out of a stupor or boredom
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Excitatio
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The persuasive appeal to one's character
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Ethos
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The repetition of a word(s) in adjacent phrases or clauses, either to amplify the thought or to express emotion
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Conduplicatio
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Juxtaposing two opposing statements in such a way as to prove the one from the other
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Contrarium
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Breaking off suddenly in the middle of speaking, usually to portray being overcome by emotion
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Aposiopesis
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After enumerating all possibilities by which something could have occurred, the speaker eliminates all but one
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Epeditio
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Persistent repetition of the same plea in much of the same words, a direct method for underscoring the pathetic appeal
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Epimone
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The use of a remark or an image which calls upon the audience to draw an obvious conclusion
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Syllogismus
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The appeal to reason
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Logos
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The use of several synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force
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Synonymia
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Asking questions in order to chide, to express grief, or to inveigh
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Epiplexis
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Threatening/foretelling payback for ill doing
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Cataplexis
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Repetition of a word with one or more between, usually o express deep feeling
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Diacope
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