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  2. Litotes - Wikipedia

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    Litotes can be used to establish ethos, or credibility, by expressing modesty or downplaying one's accomplishments to gain the audience's favor. In the book Rhetorica ad Herennium , litotes is addressed as a member of the Figures of Thought known as deminutio , or understatement.

  3. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [ 2 ] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration , or telling; description , or picturing; exposition , or explaining; and argument , or ...

  4. Modes of persuasion - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle acknowledged that the union between the speaker’s appearance, his reputation, and his ability to give the speech all add up to the meaning of Ethos. [7] This can be done by: Being a notable figure in the field in question, such as a college professor or an executive of a company whose business is related to the presenter's topic

  5. Constitutive rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    Audience must adopt a particular ethos prior to being persuaded by constitutive rhetoric, thus the ethos of the subject of discourse can be critically studied and interpreted through a text. [4] While these theorists all contributed to the theory of constitutive rhetoric, James Boyd White was the first to coin the term.

  6. The Craftsman (book) - Wikipedia

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    The book is divided into a prologue, ten chapters split over three parts, and a conclusion. Sennett argues that the spirit of craftmanship involves the "desire to do a job well for its own sake". For Sennett, people motivated purely by material rewards or competition do not tend to produce as good work as those motivated by a sense of craftmanship.

  7. Ethos - Wikipedia

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    A sculpture representing Ethos outside the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in Canberra, Australia. Ethos (/ ˈ iː θ ɒ s / or US: / ˈ iː θ oʊ s /) is a Greek word meaning 'character' that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology; and the balance between caution and passion. [1]

  8. Rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    Rhetorical study has broadened in scope, and is especially used by the fields of marketing, politics, and literature. Another area of rhetoric is the study of cultural rhetorics, which is the communication that occurs between cultures and the study of the way members of a culture communicate with each other. [ 36 ]

  9. Everything Sad Is Untrue - Wikipedia

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    Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story) is a young adult/middle grade autobiographical novel [1] by Daniel Nayeri, published August 25, 2020 by Levine Querido.In 2021, the book won the Michael L. Printz Award, [2] Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature, [3] and Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature.