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Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Devices
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English
10th Grade
01/29/2013

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Fallacies 

Definition

A deceptive, misleading, or false notion/belief.[image]

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 Slippery Slope

Definition
A dangerous and irreversable course.[image]
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Appeal

Definition
The power or ability to attract, interest, amuse, or stimulate the mind or emotions.
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Parallelism

Definition

Recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are

expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance. 

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Bias

Definition

particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Argument of fact

Definition
Using valid arguements to justify your claim.
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Sentimental appeals

Definition
Playing on peoples emotions to influence their opinions.
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Hasty generalizations

Definition
A generalized idea based off of false information.
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Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc

Definition

(Latin) After this, therefore because of this.

Arguements that becuase something occured that something else will happen.

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Claim

Definition
Stating the case
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Concession

Definition
Yeilding a fact in an arguement 
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Faulty analogy

Definition
False comparison
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Pathos

Definition
An audiences reaction.
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Inductive logic

Definition
Principals determined by a number of general statement
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Deductive logic

Definition
Principals based on facts
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Empirical evidence

Definition
Source of knowledge gained by observation
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Logical evidence

Definition
Source of knowledge gained by fact.
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Anecdotal evidence

Definition
Experience based knowledge
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Ad hominem

Definition
(Latin) to the man. When a claim or arguement is rejected becuase of some irrelevant fact.
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Culture

Definition
Quality of a person or society
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Logical fallacy

Definition
A flaw in an arguement that weakens it.
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Credible

Definition
Able to be believable
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Grounds

Definition
Basis of arguement
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Refutation (counterargument)

Definition
Other side (counter) of arguement
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Persuasion

Definition
Convincing someone in an arguement
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Logos

Definition
Logic in anarguement
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Bandwagon

Definition
An entity in which people do something to "fit" into the general public.
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Rhetoric

Definition
Persuasive effect on the audience
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Propaganda

Definition
Rumor spread deliberatly to help or harm someone.
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Proposal

Definition
Suggestion 
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Either/or fallacy

Definition
When only two opinions are given.
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Antithesis

Definition
Counter proposition
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Litotes

Definition
Ironic understatement
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Rebuttal

Definition
contradiction
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Equivocation

Definition
Evading a statement or question
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Ethos

Definition
Ethics
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Media

Definition
Means of communications
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Euphemism

Definition
word or phrase that stads for another
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Irony

Definition
an opposite meaning to a word
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Paradox

Definition
Statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true
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Anaphora

Definition
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beggining of successive phrases or clauses
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