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Persuasion Vocabulary
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Literature
10th Grade
01/28/2013

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either/or fallacy 

 

Definition
a claim that presents an artificially limited range of choices
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Antithesis 
Definition
A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone something
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litotes 
Definition
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its oppsite 
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Rebuttal 
Definition
A refutation or contradiction
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Equivocation 
Definition
A satement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasent truth
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Ethos 
Definition
The characteristics spirit of a culture, era, or community as seen in its beliefs and aspirations 
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Media
Definition
the means of communication, asradio and television, newspaper, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely 
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Euphemism
Definition
A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referrinng to something unpleasent or embarrassing 
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Irony 
Definition
The expression of one's meaning by using a language that normally signifies  the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
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Paradox
Definition
A self-contradictory statement that may be found to be true when investigated
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Anaphora
Definition
the use of the same word or phrase at the begining of several successive clauses, senteces, lines usaully for emphasis or rhetorical effect.
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