Rhetorical Terms Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. the placement of two things side by side for the purpose of emphasis
  2. 7. the practice of interpreting other people's statment in their best, most reasonable form; when we employ this, we work to understand a person's writing, thinking, and statments; rhetorical analysis requires the application of this lens.
  3. 9. a brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to support generalization or claim
  4. 11. a referance in a written word or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge to create a resonance in the reader
  5. 13. the point, backed up by support, of an argument.
  6. 14. the appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its arguments or central ideas; this often comes in the form of data, reasons, definitions, and evidence to support a claim.
  7. 15. a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in an sentence or paragraph
  8. 17. language that evokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader.
  9. 18. an author's word choice, especially when purposeful
  10. 19. a diagram showing the relations of a writer or speaker, reader or listener, and the text/subject in a rhetorical situations.
  11. 20. the appeal of a text to the credibility and/or character of the speaker, writer, or the narrator.
Down
  1. 1. the acknowledgement of a point made by one's opponent; an inference with regards to what an opponent might argue
  2. 2. a comparison of two seemingly different things; similes and metaphors are types of this
  3. 3. exists when there is a contrast between appereance and reality
  4. 4. an ironic composition which ridicules some aspect of humanity or society
  5. 5. a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is; often reflects an ironic, humorous, or sarcastic tone
  6. 8. the appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience
  7. 10. the particular choices a reader or speaker makes to achieve meaning, purpose, or effect.
  8. 12. the repetition of a word or group of words at the beggining of succesive clauses or phrases; this is one way to create parallel sentence structure
  9. 16. an implied comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"
  10. 21. the writer or speakers attitude toward the subject matter