front 1 rhetorical choices | back 1 The particular choices a writer or speaker makes to achieve meaning, purpose, or effect. |
front 2 rhetorical situation | back 2 The convergence in a situation of exigency (the need to write), audience, and purpose |
front 3 rhetorical triangle | back 3 A diagram showing the relations of writer or speaker, reader or listener, and text in a rhetorical situation. |
front 4 sarcasm | back 4 The use of mockery or bitter irony |
front 5 slang | back 5
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front 6 speaker | back 6 The person delivering a speech, or the character assumed to be speaking a poem. |
front 7 stance | back 7 A writer’s or speaker’s apparent attitude toward the audience. |
front 8 style | back 8 The choices that writers or speakers make in language for effect. |
front 9 support | back 9 In a text, the material offered to make concrete or to back up a generalization, conclusion, or claim. |
front 10 syllogism | back 10 Logical reasoning from inarguable premises. |
front 11 syntax | back 11 The order of words in a sentence. |
front 12 tautology | back 12 A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed. |
front 13 tests for generalization | back 13 (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. |
front 14 thesis | back 14 The main idea in a text, often the main generalization, conclusion, or claim. |
front 15 thesis statement | back 15 A single sentence that states a text’s thesis, usually somewhere near the beginning. |
front 16 tone | back 16 The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject matter. |
front 17 verisimilitude | back 17 The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience. |
front 18 voice | back 18 The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona. |
front 19 warrant | back 19 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. |