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| speaking to a concept not there |
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the juxtaposition of opposing/ contrasting ideas or concepts
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using a mild phrase instead of a blunt phrase
EX: Passed away vs. died |
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| The repetition of grammatical structures or patterns |
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| (adj.) overly concerned with book learning and formal rules despite common sense |
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| (v.) to divert the expression of a socially unacceptable impulse to one that is socially acceptable |
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| (adj.)gruesome and horrifying; ghastily or awful |
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| (n.) the order in which one person follows another |
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| (v.)to regard with extreme repugnance and disgust |
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| (adj.) marked by lack or direction |
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| (adj.) ready ability to move with quick easy grace |
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| (n.) grievous troubles; suppression and harsh treatment due to depression |
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| (n.) the doctrine that an individual state of the U.S. may oppose any federal action it believes encroaches on its sovereignty |
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| (v.) to be or become weak or feeble; to lose vigor or vitality |
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| (adj.) vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause |
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| (n.) preventing federal entanglement |
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| having to do with Mythology specifically Roman |
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| the speaker's attitude towards his or her subject |
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| most extreme exaggeration |
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| sixth sense knowing what to and not to say to a specific reader |
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characterized by full, complex sentences and the use of standard and consistent grammar using orderly ideas and educated vocabulary. No contractions!
-Aims to make an impartial argument
-No "I" reference; speaker remains hidden in background
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based on the familar gramatical patterns and constructed from everyday speech.
-Uses short sentences, contractions, "I" point of view and colloquial language
- Used in journals, diaries, personal letters, and light essays
-The writer is experienced or opinionated in reference to the topic |
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formal English used by specialists from specialized fields with specific vocabulary.
-Is wordy, overuses abstract nouns, misuses passive voice, and has improper insubordination |
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| Scribendo disces scribere |
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| Latin. "You learn to write by writing." |
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| (adj.) odd, fantastic, or bizzarre |
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| (n.) sculptural raised works |
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| (n.) lofty, formal, or elaborate praise; eulogy |
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| (n.) Unusual state of matter; frictionless flow |
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| (n.) an object that held prisoners publicly in medieval times, while citizens chucked tomatoes at them |
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| (n.) a statement that contradicts itself to obtain ideas at a deeper level |
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| (n.) a play on words similar in sound but different in meaning |
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| (n.?) the female personification of the church |
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| (n.) a mournful melancholy, or plaintive poem especially a funeral song |
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| (n.) an extended metaphor using complex logic |
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| (n.) any person who takes the law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime |
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(n.)
1. strict economy
2. quality; severity of manner, life |
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| (n.)a person who supports Karl Marx's theory in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies, opposing capitialism |
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| (n.) a destructive fire, usually an extensive one |
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| (adj.) having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech |
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| (n.) anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign |
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| (adj.) not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable |
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| (adj.) of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes. |
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| (adj.) characterized by lack of development, advancement, or progressive movement |
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| (n.) a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained |
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| (adj.) showing lack of judgment; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet |
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| (v.) to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment |
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| (adj.) tending to call up or produce |
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| (adj.) Lacking power or ability |
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| (n.)guilt or blame that is deserved |
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| the arrangement of the words to form meaning that considers length and patterns |
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| Treatment of Subject Matter (5) |
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| includes Point of view, Tone, Irony, Mood, and support of main idea |
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| 2 or more stressed Silly-bills |
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| same vowel sounds, different consanants |
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| self-contradictory word or phrase |
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| part is used for the whole or whole is used for the part |
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| Uses name of object in place of another |
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| running of thought from one line to another without break |
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| 2 Ways to Characterize Diction |
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1. Monosyllabic
2. Polysyllabic |
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| (adj.)characterized by importance |
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| (adj.) having distinct style |
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| (adj.) belonging to select |
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| (adj.) hard to understand |
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| offers speaker's crediblity |
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| appeals to audiences feelings |
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| Functional Sentence Patterns (4) |
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| Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory |
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| Grammatical Sentence Patterns (4) |
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| Simple, compound,complex, and compound complex |
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| Rhetorical Sentence Patterns (3) |
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Loose (main idea then information)
Periodic (main idea at end)
Balanced (phrases and clauses balance each other in structure and length) |
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| Basic Rhetorical Techniques (5) |
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| Antithesis, Juxtaposition, Parallelism,Repetition, Rhetorical Questions |
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| Repetition of same word/ phrases at the beginning of successive clauses |
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| deliberate omission of related clauses |
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| Arrangement of ideas is reversed in the second half of statement |
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| repeating the same words after successive clauses or phrases |
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| deliberate use of many conjunctions |
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| The use of a verb that has two different meanings with two different objects |
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Basic (S-V-C)
Inversion (V-S0
Sentence openers |
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| effected by diction, imagery, punctuation, rhythm |
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| art that humans use to process all messages we send and receive |
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| The writer and the reader both use.. (3) |
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| personal eperience, reading, and observations |
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| a speaker or writer. An ancient Greek term that encompasses both readers and writers persuading the other, both of whom act on good morals |
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| (v.) to discontinue temporarily; suspend. |
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| (n.) a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast |
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| (adj.) inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy. |
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