Vocabulary
Rhetorical Devices
Argument
Content Vocabulary
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100

a rude mocking comment

What is jeer?

100

repeating words or phrases to emphasize a point

What is repetition?

100

the main point or position the author is trying to prove

What is a claim?

100

to fail to keep a promise

What is default?

100

a person who is a little strange

What is eccentric?

200

full of oneself

What is haughty?

200

using similar grammatical strutures to show balance or emphasis

What is parallelsim?

200

information that supports a claim, such as facts or examples

What is evidence?

200

unhappy, lonely

What is deolate?

200

Seperation of people or things

What is segregation?

300

a widely open mouth

What is gape?

300

a comparison developed over several lines or throughout a text

What is an extended metaphor?

300

the final part of an agrument that restates the claim

What is a conclusion?

300

impossible to untangle

What is inextricably?
300

causing discouragement or fear in someone

What is daunting?

400

a personality trait peculiar to an individual

What is idiosyncrasy?

400

We will study late, we will work hard, and we will suceed together.

What is repetition?

400

a strategy used to persuade the audience

What is an appeal?

400

causing freedom or salvation

What is redemptive?

400

logical

(ethos, logos, pathos)

What is logos?

500

a piece of unseeded land

What is fallow?

500

A commercial shows a doctor in a lab coat explaining why a product is effective.

(ethos, logos, pathos)

What is ethos?

500

Statistics that show

(ethos, logos, pathos)

What is logos?

500

oral communication

What is speech?

500

take this puppy home so he has a warm shelter

(ethos, logos, pathos)


What is pathos?