Rhetoric Vocab

October 15, 2025

Rhetoric

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

Propaganda

Information used to promote a particular cause, doctrine, or POV, especially of a biased or misleading nature

Systematic

Done or acting according to a fixed plan or system

Biased

Unfair prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared to another

Disseminate

Spread Something, especially information, widely

Manipulate

Control or influence a person or situation cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously

Subtle

A change or distinction so delicate or precise to be difficult to analyze or describe

Argument

A reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong

Persuasive

Good at convincing someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation

Ethical

Relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these

Alliteration

The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of several words in a sequence

Allusion

A short reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event

Anaphor

The repetition of the same word(s) at the beginning of phrases or sentences

Metaphor

A comparison of two different things without using the words like or as

Parallelism

A list of words or phrases with the same grammatical structure

Simile

The comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

Schemes

An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words focusing on the structure and syntax

Tropes

Artful deviation from the ordinary meaning of a word which changes the meaning of the word