Rhetoric
Modes of Discourse: exposition, description, narration, argument
Subsets of exposition: cause and effect, compare and contrast, process analysis...
Argument
Subset of argument: persuasion (motivates audience to action)
Modes of Persuasion:
ethos (appeal to authority)
pathos (appeal to emotion)
logos (appeal to logic)
Inductive logic (specific to general)
Deductive logic (general to specific)
Syllogism
Analogy (specific to specific)
Axiom, axiomatic
Implication (author/sender implies)
Inference (reader/audience infers)
Invective
Fallacy
Examples of fallacies: ad hominem, non sequitur, bandwagon, straw man, false dilemma, circular reasoning, scapegoat...
Rhetorical question (no response is requested)
Ambiguity (must be intended)
Irony:
Dramatic (discordance b/w what appears and what is known)
Situational (discordance b/w what is understood/expected and what actually is)
Verbal (discordance b/w what is said and what is meant)
Sarcasm (ridicules)
Satire (must have a target)
Allusion (specific and oblique): classical, literary, historical
Motif
Symbol
Archetype
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