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| Ability to discover and generate ideas |
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| Finding and developing materials; selection of detail |
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| Distinctives; Rhetorical analysis/the focus of literary analysis |
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| Gestures, enunciation per Aristotle. Layout and design... Textual graphics... handwriting |
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| Tells about a series of events |
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| Uses language to create a mood or emotion |
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| Is shown when something is explained or "set forth" |
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| Uses logic, ethics, and emotional apparels (logos, ethos, pathos) to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way. |
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| Logical appeal is the strategic use of logic, claims, and evidence to convince an audience of a certain point |
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| Emotional appeals target the emotions of the reader to create some kind of connection with the writer. A lot of visual appeal is emotional in nature (think of advertisements, with their powerful imagery, colors, fonts, and symbols) |
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| Ethical appeal is used to establish the writer as fair, open-minded, honest, and knowledgeable about the subject matter. The writer creates a sense of him or herself as trustworthy and credible. |
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| The writer's attitude, mood or moral outlook toward the subject and/or readers. |
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| The use of words to create pictures. An author can use a lively description to create vivid pictures in the mind or appeal to other sensory experiences. |
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| The distinctive vocabulary of a particular author. "Concrete diction" refers to a use of words which are specific and "show" the reader a mental picture. "Abstract diction" refers to words which are general and "tell" something, without a picture. |
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| To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order. |
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| An author's distinctive form of sentence construction. Distinctive forms include: very long sentences, very short sentences, parallelism, and repetition of key words or phrases. |
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| A literary device: a suggested, implied, or evocative meaning. For example, an author may use the figurative meaning of a word for its effect upon the reader. |
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| A literary device. The author uses an explicit or literal meaning of a word in order to emphasize a specific, important fact. |
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| The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, ect... |
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| The intellectual or emotional perspective held by a narrator or persona (not to be confused with the author) in connection with a story. The main points of view include first person participant, first person observer, third person omniscient, third person limited, and objective. |
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| Conscious repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, classes, or paragraphs. |
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