- rhetoric
- Aristotle's rhetorical triangle
- analysis
- literal vs. figurative
- ethos, logos, pathos
- loaded language
- specificity of detail
- concrete examples
- difference between concrete and abstract
- difference between specific and general
- diction
- syntax
- denotation vs. connotation
- imagery
- theme(s)
- audience(s)
- purpose (s)
- beginnings and endings
- tricolon--"power of three"--a unit made of three parts
- repetition
- mood
- tone
- organizational choices/structure/pattern
- rhetorical modes
- context/background/occasion
- SOAPSTone
- novelty
- gestures/props
- alliteration
- simile
- metaphor
- anaphora
- epistrophe
- allusion
- amplification
- analogy
- anecdote
- antithesis
- juxtaposition
- archetype
- aphorism
- assonance
- consonance
- asyndeton
- polysyndeton
- personification
- circumlocution
- epilogue
- prologue
- epithet
- euphemism
- euphony
- parallelism
- hyperbaton/anastrophe/inversion (all are synonymous--same meaning)
- hyperbole
- inversion
- shift
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- vignette
- trope
- mores
- pun
- extended metaphor
This list is just the beginning of the terms and ideas you will learn as you study the art of rhetoric in this course.