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  2. Persuasion - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion or persuasion arts is an umbrella term for influence. Persuasion can influence a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviours. [1] Persuasion is studied in many disciplines. Rhetoric studies modes of persuasion in speech and writing and is often taught as a classical subject.

  3. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Accumulatio – the emphasis or summary of previously made points or inferences by excessive praise or accusation.; Actio – canon #5 in Cicero's list of rhetorical canons; traditionally linked to oral rhetoric, referring to how a speech is given (including tone of voice and nonverbal gestures, among others).

  4. Rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    One definition maintains that certainty is subjective and feeling-based, the other that it is a byproduct of justification. The more commonly accepted definition of rhetoric claims it is synonymous with persuasion. For rhetorical purposes, this definition, like many others, is too broad.

  5. Modes of persuasion - Wikipedia

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    The modes of persuasion, modes of appeal or rhetorical appeals (Greek: pisteis) are strategies of rhetoric that classify a speaker's or writer's appeal to their audience. These include ethos , pathos , and logos , all three of which appear in Aristotle's Rhetoric . [ 1 ]

  6. Soft power - Wikipedia

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    In politics (and particularly in international politics), soft power is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power).It involves shaping the preferences of others through appeal and attraction.

  7. Persuasion (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, ...

  8. Ideology - Wikipedia

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    As meaning, whose purpose is persuasion; and; As the locus of social interaction. For Willard A. Mullins, an ideology should be contrasted with the related (but different) issues of utopia and historical myth. An ideology is composed of four basic characteristics: [15] it must have power over cognition; it must be capable of guiding one's ...

  9. Recency bias - Wikipedia

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    Recency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones; a memory bias.Recency bias gives "greater importance to the most recent event", [1] such as the final lawyer's closing argument a jury hears before being dismissed to deliberate.