Persuassion and Rhetoric

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Across
  1. 2. repeats a word or phrase at the beginnings of consecutive clauses or phrases to add emphasis to an idea.
  2. 3. Evidence, information that supports a main point/minor points
  3. 6. suffering or experience and refers to appeals of emotions
  4. 7. using descriptions and words that evoke feelings of sympathy, sadness, anger, righteous indignation, hope etc
  5. 8. persuasion that appeals to the audience through reasoning and logic
  6. 9. communicating reasoning through a carefully sequenced series of steps to help “prove” points made
  7. 10. author is knowledgeable and objective, or unbiased.
Down
  1. 1. claim that everybody else agrees with the author’s argument and persuade readers to conform/agree
  2. 4. writing that appeals to credibility
  3. 5. usually via anecdotes or quotations regarding the author’s budget, help build the audience’s trust in an author’s message