Rhetoric

Study of persuasive writing

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Propaganda

Ideas, information, or facts used to enforce someone's cause

Proposal

an offer

Either/or Fallacy

Fallacy where there are two options

Antithesis

 A counter-prompt

Litotes

When an understatement is

used for rhetorical purposes

Rebuttal

Information used for a counter arguement and negate other evidence.

Equivocating

To not commit oneself in what they say

Ethos

Ethics

(of a distinguished person)

Euphemism

Substitution of a more inoffensive term for one that might offend someone

ex: "Senior Citizen" for "Old Person"

Irony

Clever use of words that expresses the opposite of the literal meaning

Anaphora

repitition of a word at the beginning of successive sentences

Paradox

Contradictory statement, but also possibly true