Nonfiction Terms

an appeal to ethics and credibility (the quality of being trusted and believed in)

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

implied or suggested meaning

• summarizing

• explicit

• paraphrasing

• implicit

supports the claim; statements that back up

• logos

• pathos

• reason

• evidence

the group of readers to whom the piece is directed

• audience

• occasion

• speaker

• rhetoric

the attitude a write takes toward the subject or character

• thesis

• claim

• tone

• subject

what the article/speech is about

• tone

• subject

• thesis

• claim

to rephrase a statement in your own words (synonyms)

• paraphrasing

• summarizing

• implicit

• explicit

dictionary meaning of a word

• denotation

• ethos

• diction

• connotation

designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience

• audience

• occasion

• speaker

• rhetoric

the context of the text

• rhetoric

• occasion

• speaker

• audience