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Persuasion
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English
10th Grade
01/28/2013

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Bandwagon
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a wagon used for carrying a band in parade or procession , paticular activity
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Rhetoric

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the art of effective or pursuasive speaking or writing , language designed to have pursuasive or impressive effect
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Propaganda
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misleading nature used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
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Proposal
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a plan or suggestion put foward consideration or discussion by others the action of putting foward such a plan or suggestion
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Either
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used before the first or two alternatives that are being specified One or the other of two people or things
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Antithesis

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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of soemone or something else
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Litotes
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ironical understatement in which an  affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary , you won't be sorry, meaning...
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Rebuttal
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  A refutation or contradiction.
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Equivocation

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a statement that is not literally false but cleverly avoids an unplesent truth
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ethos
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the carchteristic spirit culture , era , community as seen in its belifs
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irony
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the expression of ones meaning by using language that normally defines the oppisite
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paradox
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a statement or proposition that despite sound,reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion
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Anaphora

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the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it...
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