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  2. 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, ...

  3. Anne Elliot - Wikipedia

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    Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1817).. Anne Elliot was persuaded, when she was 19 years old, to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a promising young lieutenant in the Royal Navy but a commoner without fortune, and she has never married.

  4. Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer ...

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    The book covers the history of rhetoric, and uses modern examples of how persuasion is used in politics, advertising, media - and how you can teach a kid to argue. [6]

  5. Northanger Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Northanger Abbey (/ ˈ n ɔːr θ æ ŋ ər / NOR-thang-ər) is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels [1] written by the English author Jane Austen.Although the title page is dated 1818 and was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion, Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, making it the first of Austen's novels to be completed in full. [2]

  6. 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.

  7. Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion) - Wikipedia

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    Captain Frederick Wentworth is a fictional character in the 1817 novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. He is the prototype of the new gentleman in the 19th century: a self-made man who makes his fortune by hard work rather than inheritance.

  8. Course Hero acquires LitCharts, founded by the creators of ...

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    LitCharts, an offshoot of SparkNotes, got scooped up today by a newly minted edtech unicorn, Course Hero. The creators of SparkNotes, Ben Florman and Justin Kestler, created LitCharts as an ...

  9. Category:Books about persuasion - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion can influence a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviours. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.