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- Tapinosis. Language or an epithet that is debasing. This term is synonymous with Meiosis.
- Taste. A learned admiration for things of beauty.
- Tautologia. The same idea repeated in different words.
- Taxis. The distribution of a proper adjunct to every subject.
- Techne. Greek for a true art.
- Terministic screens. term coined by Kenneth Burke to explain the way in which the world is viewed when taking languages and words into consideration.
- Theme. The basic principle pulled from the Bible in order to create a sermon.
- Thesis. The major claim or premise made in an argument to be proved or dis-proved.
- Thesmos. Greek. The law that comes from the authority of kings.
- Tone. The author's voice in an essay through use of figurative language or a style of enunciation in writing (also known as a diction). The way the author expresses himself out loud or through a character.
- Topical systems. Methods for finding arguments.
- topographia. The description of a place.
- topothesia. The description of an imaginary or non-existent place.
- Topos. A line or specific style of argument.
- Toulmin Model. A method of diagraming arguments created by Stephen Toulmin that identifies such components as backing, claim, data, qualifier, rebuttal, and warrant.
- Transgression. Reading a text and looking for the deeper meanings instead of the obvious ones.
- Translative issue. Dealing with procedure of an ensuing case.
- Tricolon. The pattern of three phrases in parallel, found commonly in Western writing after Cicero. For example, the kitten had white fur, blue eyes, and a pink tongue.
- Trivium. (Latin) Grammar, rhetoric, and logic taught in schools during the medieval period.
- Tropes. Figure of speech that uses a word aside from its literal meaning.
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