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| the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables |
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| sn indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event |
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| an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things |
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| the repetition of words at the begining of successive clauses |
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| a short account of an interesting event |
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| explanatory or critical notes added to a text |
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| the noun to which a later pronoun refers |
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| the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast |
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| parallel structure the juxtaposes contrasting ideas |
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| a short, astut statement of a general truth |
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| a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun |
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| the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language |
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| a statement purt fourth and supported by evidence |
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| a diagram that representsa rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience |
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| an empahtic statement; declaration. an assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument |
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| a belief or statement taken for granted without proof |
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| leaving oput conjunctions between words, phrases, and clauses. |
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| one's listener or readership to those whom a speech or piece is written |
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| the speasker position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone |
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| a reliable, respected source- someone with knowledge |
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| prejudice or predisposititon toward one side of a subject or issue |
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| identifying a part of a peice of writing as being dervied from a source |
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| an assertion, usually supported by evidence |
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| a careful reading that is attentive to organziation, figurative languafe, scentence structue, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text |
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| an informal or conversational use of language |
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| shared beliefs, values, or positions |
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| a scentence that includes one independednt clause and at least one dependent clause |
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| a reluctant acknowledgement or yeilding |
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| that which is implied by a word, or opposed to the word's literal meaning |
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| words,events, or circumstances that help determine meaning |
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| grammatical equivalence between parts of a scentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and or but |
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| a challenge to a position; an apposing argument |
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| worthy or belief; trustworthy |
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| an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail |
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| a scentence that makes a statement |
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| reasoning from general to specific |
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| the literal meaning of a word;its dictionary definition |
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| a double-column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in another column |
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| bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing |
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| mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to descrive tone |
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| a greek term referring to the character or a person; one of aristotle's three rhetorical appeals |
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| explanation of a test's meaning through an analysis of all of its constituent parts, including the literary devices used; also called close reading |
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| information that is true or demonstrable |
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| the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect |
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| an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning |
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| a word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full scentence |
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| urgung, or strongly encouraging |
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| exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis |
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| vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste,touch, hearing) |
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| a sentence that requests or commands |
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| reasoning from specific to general |
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| a scentence in which the verb precedes the subject |
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| a contradiction between what is said and what is mean; incongruity between action and result |
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| placement of two things side by side for emphasis |
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| a greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of aristotle's threee rhetorical appeals |
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| a figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, this making an implicit comparison |
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| a word,phrase, or clause that qualifies or described another word, phrase, or clause |
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| retelling an event or series of events |
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| turning a verb or adjective into a noun |
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| an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing |
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| an all knowing, usually third person narrator |
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| a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms |
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| the relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented |
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| a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true |
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| the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns |
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| a peice that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of an other; used for comic effect or ridicule |
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| a greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion;one of aristotle's three rhetorical appeals |
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| a sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause |
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| the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing |
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| assigning lifelike characteristice to inanimate objects |
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| an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy,politics, or religion |
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| the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions |
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| two parts of a syllogism. the concluding scentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the makoe premise and its subject from the minor premise |
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| all mammals are warm blooded |
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| a word used to replace a noun or noun phrase |
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| a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information |
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| one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing |
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| to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument |
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| the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion |
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| patterns of organization developed to achiece a pecific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contratst, cause and eggect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis and argumentation |
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| a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon and answer |
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| a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience |
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| an ironic, sarcastiv, or witty compostion that claims to argue for sometihng, but actualy argues against it |
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| a pattern or words or scentence construction used for rhetorical effect |
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| the arrangement of the independent and dependednt clauses into know sentence constructions- such as simple, comopund, complex or compun-complex |
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| using a variety of sentnece patterns to create a desired effect |
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| a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things |
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| a statement containging a subject and predicate; an independent clause |
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| a book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information |
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| a term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perpective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or peice of writing |
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| a logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position |
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| the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement or words and figures of speech |
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| in rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing |
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| created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies and independent clause |
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| the dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentecne |
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| a form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise |
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| combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex |
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| the centeral idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer |
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| a statement of the centeral idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit |
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| the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience |
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| lack of emphasis in a astatement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect |
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| in grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice) |
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| a construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs-often in different,sometimes incongruent ways- two or more words in a sentence |
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