Persuasion Vocab

A kind of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people.

• Persuasion

• Support

• Claim

• Counterargument

A person's opinion that something is true that others might disagree with.

• Persuasion

• Claim

• Persuasive Device

• Support

Techniques used to enhance arguments & communicate more effectively

• Support

• Persuasive Device

• Counterargument

• Rhetoric

Statements that convince the audience to believe the author's claim.

• Rhetoric

• Persuasive Device

• Support

• Persuasion

Persuading the audience using logic & reasoning

• Pathos

• Ethos

• Logos

The art of persuasion. The goal is to change the audience's point of view or convince them to do something.

• Counterargument

• Argument

• Rhetoric

• Support

An argument made to oppose another argument.

• Logos

• Counterargument

• Pathos

• Claim

Persuading the audience by affecting their feelings or emotions.

• Logos

• Ethos

• Pathos

Speaking or writing that expresses a position, makes a claim, and supports it with reasons and evidence.

• Counterargument

• Support

• Rhetoric

• Argument

Persuading the audience using credibility & ethics

• Ethos

• Logos

• Pathos