Building blocks
A rhetorical appeal toward logic
The moment or event that motivates someone to write or to speak about a specific issue, problem, or situation
The omission of conjunctions
Placing two (usually quite different) things next to each other to encourage the audience to compare and contrast
What planet is closest to the sun?
A rhetorical appeal toward emotion
Repetition at THE END of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.
The repeated use of conjunctions within the same sentence.
What is the name of Mickey Mouse's dog?
A rhetorical appeal toward credibility
Gives an inanimate object human traits or characteristics.
Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases
Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.
What movie featured the song "Let It Go"?
The study and uses of persuasion
the specific writing techniques that authors use to convince the audience of their purpose (how they go about creating the appeals)
A type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole
Combination of contradictory ideas next to each other in a clause, phrase, or sentence.
What was the most watched Netflix debut series ever? (In other words, the first season)
The qualities of an argument that make it persuasive
a specific term referring to the characteristics one individual presents to another in order to influence the others’ perception of them
Asserts or emphasizes something by seeming to deny it.
Anticipates an objection or counterclaim and answers it
In golf, what is the term for making a shot *three* strokes below par?