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The particular choices a writer or speaker makes to achieve meaning, purpose, or effect.

The convergence in a situation of exigency (the need to write), audience, and purpose

A diagram showing the relations of writer or speaker, reader or listener, and text in a rhetorical situation.

The use of mockery or bitter irony

1. Informal language, often considered inappropriate for formal occasions and text.

The person delivering a speech, or the character assumed to be speaking a poem.

A writer’s or speaker’s apparent attitude toward the audience.

The choices that writers or speakers make in language for effect.

In a text, the material offered to make concrete or to back up a generalization, conclusion, or claim.

Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.

The order of words in a sentence.

A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed.

(1) A fair number of instances must be investigated. (2) The instances investigated must be typical. (3) If negative instances occur, they must be explained. *Show that they are not typical and, therefore, need not be considered as significant.

The main idea in a text, often the main generalization, conclusion, or claim.

A single sentence that states a text’s thesis, usually somewhere near the beginning.

The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject matter.

The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience.

The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona.

In Toulmin’s model of argumentation, the general statement that establishes a trustworthy relationship between the data and the claim; it is a fundamental assumption (similar to the major premise in formal logic) on which a claim can be made and supported. In an argument the claim and data will be explicit, but the warrant is often implied, especially if the person making the argument assumes that the audience accepts the warrant.