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Persuasion Vocab
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English
10th Grade
01/28/2013

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Fallacies
Definition
A misleading arguement
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Slippery Slope
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A dangerous transtion
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Appeal
Definition
needing help from someone
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Parallelism
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comparing people and other things
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Bias
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a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question [image]
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Argument of Fact
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argueing on facts
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Sentimental Appeals
Definition
emotional appeals
ethos,pathos,logos
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Hasty Generalization
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Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc
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false cause
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Claim
Definition
demanding or stating a fact or opinion
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Concession
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a space or privilege within certain premises for a subsidiary business or service
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Faulty Analogy
Definition
assuming that two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily alike in some other respect.
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pathos
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the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.
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inductive logic
Definition
begin with some data, and then determine what general conclusion(s) can logically be derived from those data
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Deductive logic
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you begin with some statements, called 'premises', that are assumed to be true, you then determine what else would have to be true if the premises are true
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Empirical evidence
Definition
information that is acquired by observation or experimentation
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Anecdotal Evidence
Definition
non-scientific observations or studies
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ad hominem
Definition
appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason.
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Culture
Definition
a couple of peoples food,religion, language and other things
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logical fallacy
Definition
error of reasoning
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credible
Definition
capable of being believed
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Grounds
Definition
land having an indicated character
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Refutation (Counterargument)
Definition
refusing a statement
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persuasion
Definition
refusing a statement
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Logos
using audiences thoughts y presenting facts
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using audiences thoughts y presenting facts
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Bandwagon
Definition
to join a side
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Rhetoric
Definition
the undue use of exaggeration or display
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Propaganda
Definition
the undue use of exaggeration or display
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Proposal
Definition
offer things to people such as acceptance,love and many other things
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Either/or Fallacy
Definition
False Dilemma
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Antithesis
Definition
opposition
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Litotes
Definition
understatement
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Rebuttal
Definition
to oppose the arguement
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Evocation
Definition
the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions
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Ethos
Definition
a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion.
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Media
Definition
A form of communication,such as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines
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Euphemism
Definition
the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
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Irony
Definition
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
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Paradox
Definition
a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory
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Anaphora
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the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words
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Logical Evidence
Definition
providing evidence of your logic
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