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1
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Name the 3 elements of persuasion

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  1. Ethos
  2. Pathos
  3. Logos
2
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Ethos

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Refers to the impression you make as a person

3
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Logos

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Refers to the quality of your arguments

4
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Pathos

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Refers to the impression one elicits from the audience

–> the mood you want to cause the listener to be in

ex.: agreement, disagreement w/ opponents

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Repetitio

Figure of speech

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Repeating a word/phrase a number of times to make it stick with the audience

ex.: “Its not going well, in fact its going badly, really badly”

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Anaphora

Figure of speech

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Refers to a repetition at the start of a number of sentences

ex.: “I have a dream .. “

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The rule of three

Figure of speech

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Use of number 3 is recommended

ex.: veni, vidi, vici

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Chiasmus

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Refer to 2 related sentences that are each others syntactical mirror image

ex.: “Don’t ask what you can do for your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country!”

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Rhetorical question

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Refers to a question which instead of being a real question is a definite statement in the shape of a question

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Metaphor

Figure of speech

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Refers to a word or phrase which is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

ex.: Julia is an angel

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Tautology

(Figure of speech

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Repeating a concept using a different word that has roughly the same meaning

ex.: all is well and good

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Pleonasm

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Repeating an obvious quality of an object or concept

ex.: a round circle, we decided to cooperate together

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Hyperbole

Figure of speech

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Refers to a more or less appropriate exaggeration

14
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Enumeration

Figure of speech

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Refers to number of names, facts, arguments following each other up

–> gives each element a convincing ring

15
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Paradox

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Refers to an apparent contradiction, that turns out to be true looking closer at it

ex.: Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains

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Understatement

Figure of speech

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Opposite to hyperbole

ex.: Saying “he’s not bad on a bike” about a professional motorcyclist

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Euphemism

figure of speech

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Replacing a term which may sound too harsh or unkind with another less direct term

ex.: Putzfrau –> Haushaltshilfe

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Oxymoron

Figure of speech

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Combining 2 contradictory terms

ex.: speaking by staying silent

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Litotes

Figure of speech

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Emphasizing sth by denying the opposite

–> special kind of understatement

ex.: Thats not a bad idea at all ! –> referring to a good idea