Vocabulary List #1

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Rhetoric

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The art of persuasive writing or speaking.

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Rhetorical Appeals

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Strategies used to persuade an audience (ethos, logos, pathos).

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Ethos

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A persuasion strategy using credibility and the speaker's background (like education or experience).

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Logos

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Persuasion strategy using logic (like facts, statistics, and reasoning).

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Pathos

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Persuasion strategy using anecdotes or emotionally charged words (connotations) to evoke a feeling in the audience.

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Connotations

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The emotional or abstract meaning of a word (e.g., Sunflower has a positive connotation and associations with summer, yellow, happiness).

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Satire

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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in contemporary politics, with the intention to bring about change.

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Irony

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The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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Dramatic Irony

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Situations in literature where the audience knows something the characters do not.

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Situational Irony

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A situation in literature that is the opposite of what you've been led to anticipate or would naturally expect.