5 Rhetoric vocab terms

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Ethos

trust and credibility

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Pathos

emotion

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Logos

logic and reasoning

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Rhetorical situation

context in which communication takes place

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Exigence

what causes the speaker to speak out

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Voice

author's overall personality

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Tone

writer's attitude for that certain text

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Lexicon

your entire vocabulary

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Diction

choice of words

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Active voice

subject performs the action

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Passive voice

the action is performed upon the subject

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Clause

subject and verb

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Independent clause

complete sentence

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Dependent clause

not a complete sentence

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Parallel structure

repeating pattern in a phrase

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Epizeuxis/Palilogia

one word repeated in quick close succession

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Anaphora

repetition of words at the start of a sentence

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Mesodiplosis

repetition of words at the middle of a sentence

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Epiphora

repetition of words at the end of a sentence

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Epanalepsis

repetition of words at the beginning and end of a sentence

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Chiasmus

ABBA repetition

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Anadiplosis

the last word of a sentence repeated at the beginning of the next sentence

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Diacope

repetition of a word with other words in between

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Epimone

repetition of a word or phrase throughout the whole text

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Antanaclasis

repetition of a word but the definition changes each time

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Assonance

same vowel sound repeated

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