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abstract language
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Language that deals with concepts and intangibles, as distinguished from concrete language which names physical objects (lesson 14)
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analogy
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A comparison between two situations, usually one familiar and the other less so, so that some features of the more familiar situation help to explain the less familiar one (lesson 7)
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analysis
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the process of breaking a complex intem into its component parts for the purpose of understanding the relationship between each part and the entire item. Compare this to synthesis which is the process by which individual parts are combined into an entirety. (lesson 1)
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anaphora
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a rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences. Compare this to epistrophe where such repetitions occur at the ends. (lesson 8)
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antithesis
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a rhetorical device which employs a balanced pair of opposites (lesson 8)
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argument
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The process by which a writer tries to persuade a reader to adopt a particular point of view (lesson 2)
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asyndeton
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a rhetorical device in which expected conjunctions are omitted. Compare this to polysyndeton, where the are more conjunctions than usual. (lesson 8)
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chiasmus
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a rhetorical device in which words or phrases in the first part are reversed in the second part. Structurally, the chiasmus can be represented as AB/BA. Compare this to synchises, in which the elements of the first part are maintained in the second part, in the structure AB//AB. (lesson 8)
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chronological order
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the order of time, most employed in narration (lesson 12)
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climatic order
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the order in which items are arranged in sequence according to their importance, with the most important one last. (lesson 12)
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