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| the repetition of the same sound or letter at the begining of consecutive words or syllables |
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| an 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 that juxtaposes contrasting ideas |
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| short, astute 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 put forth and supported by evidence |
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| a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship amoung the speaker, the subject, and the audience |
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| an emphatic 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 out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses |
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| the speaker's postition on a subject revealed through his or her tone |
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| one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece or writing is addressed |
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| a reliable, represented source. --- someone with knowledge |
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| prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue |
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| identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source |
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| an assertion, usually supported by evidence |
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| a careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, 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 or conversational use of language |
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| a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause |
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| reluctant acknowledgment or yielding |
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| that which is implied by word, as opposed to the words literal meaning |
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| words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning |
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| a challenge to a position; an opposing argument |
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| worthy of belief; trustworthy |
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| an idepedent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply addition detail |
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| sentence that makes a statement |
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| reasoning from general to specific |
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| a 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 it in the other 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 describe tone |
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| a greek term referring to the character of a person |
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| explanation of a text's meaning through an analysis of all of its contituent parts, including the literary devices used; also called close reading |
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| information that is true or demonstrated |
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| the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literaty effect |
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| an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaing |
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| a word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence |
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| urging, 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 |
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| a sentece that requests or commands |
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| reasoning from specific to general |
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| sentence in which ther verb precedes the subject |
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| a contradiction between what is said and what is meant; 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 apeal to logic |
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| a figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison |
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| use of an aspect of something to represent a whole |
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| a word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or decribes 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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| aspect of context; the cause or reason for writting |
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| 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 piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; 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 |
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| a sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause |
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| the speaker, writter, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writting |
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| assigning lifelike characteristics 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 conjuctions |
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two parts of a syllogism. the concluded sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premis.
Major premise: all mammals are warm-blooded.
Minor Premise: all horses are mammals.
Conclusion: all horses 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 writting designed to sway opinion rather than present information |
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| ones's intentions or objective in a speech or piece of writting |
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| to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument |
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| the study of effective, persuasive language use |
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| patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose |
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| a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer |
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| a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship amoung the speaker, the subject, and the audience |
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| an ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for somthing, but actually argues against it |
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| a pattern of words or sentence contruction used for rhetorical effect |
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| the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence contructions -- such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex |
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| using a variety of sentence patterns to create the 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 containing 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 is being advanced in a speech or piece or writting |
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| a logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, than attacking an opponent's position |
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| the distinctive quality of speech or writting created by the selection and arrangement of 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 conjuction, a clause that modifies an independent clause |
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| the dependence of one syntactical element on another in sentence |
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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 central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer |
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| a statement of a central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit |
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| the speaker's attitude towards the subject or audience |
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| a sentence, most often appearing at the begining of a paragraph, that anounces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis |
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| artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech |
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| lack of emphasis in a statement 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. in rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing |
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| a construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs -- often in different, somtimes incongruent ways -- two or more words in a sentence |
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