RHT 150
Terms
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- catalyst
- an agent for change..causes something to happen
- ephiphany
- sudden realization
- infer
- a fact you derive from information
- allusion
- reference to moie, book, newspaper, quote- something the reader should recognize
- ethos
- ethical appeal to audience
- pathos
- emotional appeal to audience
- hyperbole
- deliberate exaggeration
- cliche metaphor
- "raining cats and dogs"
- concrete imagery
- easily interpreted, clear imeragy
- banal
- commonplace; boring
- bias
- one sided, giving facts but putting in opinion
- concrete
- tangible
- abstract
- non-tangible
- jargon
- vocab specific to a profession
- parody
- funny, immitation
- orthodoxy
- belief
- euphenism
- way of describing something in a nice way that is bad
- cliche
- overused expression
- synthesis
- uniting parts into a whole
- etymology
- evolution and origin of a word
- enthymeme
- argument in brief
- antithesis
- opposite of your thesis. Proves thesis is arguable
- deduction
- proceeds from a general premisie or assumption to a specific conclusion
- inductive
- proceeds from individual observations to a more general conclusion and uses no strict form.
- syllogism
- consists of a major premise, which is a general statement, a minor premise and a conclusion