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| discourse intended to persuade; a coherent series of statements leading from a premise to a conclusion |
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| statement a position or proposition that a person (as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument |
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| To assert in the face of possible contradiction |
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| the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution; |
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an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion
an emotion of sympathetic pity |
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| reason that in ancient Greek philosophy is the controlling principle in the universe |
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| a statement offered in explanation or justification |
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| the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact |
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| belief system or value of the speaker/writer not necessarily present in the thesis but inferred or implied; value or principle; an assumption |
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| Fallacies occur when the claims, warrants, and/or evidence in it are invalid, insufficient, or disconnected. |
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| requiring immediate aid or action |
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| opposite, exact opposite, retaliatory |
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| to contradict or oppose by formal legal argument, plea, or countervailing proof |
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| The art of speaking or writing effectively . |
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Ethos: Ethics, character, writer/speaker; sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution;
Pathos: Emotions, appeal for pity, sympathy; Audience, listener, viewer
Logos: Message, logic/reason |
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