Argument and Argumentation – Literary terms:

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Argument:

1. DISCOURSE intended to convince or persuade through appeals to reason or to the emotions, the objective being to influence belief or to motivate action.

2. A prose summary of the PLOT or idea of a work. Each of the books of John Milton's Paradise Lost begins with an “Argument,” like this one from Book 1:

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject, man's disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed: then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather Satan in the Serpent; who, revolting from God, and drawing to his side many legions of angels, was by the command of God-driven out of Heaven with all his crew into the great Deep.

 

See also:

DESCRIPTION,

DISCOURSE,

EXPOSITION,

NARRATION.

 

Argumentation:

A mode of writing, the purpose of which is to prove a point or to persuade the reader to accept a proposal; one of the four major types of DISCOURSE.

See also: ARGUMENT.