Unit One Vocabulary Review- Rhetoric

using language effectively to please or persuade

• Claim

• Ethos

• Rhetoric

• Evidence

an assertion that something is true or factual

• Claim

• Rhetoric

• Evidence

• Reasoning

means by which an alleged matter is established or disproved

• Reasoning

• Evidence

• Ethos

• Logos

thinking that is organized and logical

• Ethos

• Juxtaposition

• Diction

• Reasoning

an opinion offered in opposition to another position

• Counterclaim

• Diction

• tone

• Juxtaposition

the manner in which something is expressed in words

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Diction

• Rhetoric

a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author

• Evidence

• Tone

• Logos

• Ethos

placed side by side often for comparison

• Logos

• Diction

• Tone

• Juxtapose

a rhetorical appeal that relies on the character or credibility of the speaker

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

• Diction

a quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

• juxtapose