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39 Cards in this Set
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DICTION & kinds
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choice of words
general or specific abstract or concrete formal or informal |
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colloquial
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DICTION slang
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SYNTAX & examples
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grammatical sentence structure (flowing, short, compund, complex, poetic)
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tone
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authors feeling
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mood
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feeling reader gets
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denotative
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literal meaning of word
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connotative
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interpretive meaning of word
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ad hominem
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attack on person rather than ideas
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allegory
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word that functions of symbollic level
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anecdote
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story told by writer to show a point
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antecedent
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the word a pronoun refers to
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antithesis
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two contrasting images
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attitude
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relationship author has to subject or audience
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irony
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unexpected twist between what happens and what was expected to happen
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inference
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conclusion one can draw from presented info
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metonymy
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representitive term is used for a larger idea (your pen is a sword)
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pedantic
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scholorly, academic writing that is similar to lecturing
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style
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unique way author presents ideas
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syllogism
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formal argument
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synecdoche
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utilizes a part as representative as a whole
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voice
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active or passive
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basic sentence types
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declarative, interrogative, amperative, exclamatory
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kinds of support/argument
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logical (logos) ethical (ethos) emotional (pathos)
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hyperbole
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exaggeration for emphasis
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oxymoron
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contradiction
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paradox
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statement that appears to be contradictory, but in fact, has some truth
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onomatopoeia
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drip, bang, buzz, etc.
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anastrophe
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word order is reversed or rearranged
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apposition
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placing a noun next to another noun or phrase to explain it
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parenthesis
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insertion of words or phrases that are not related to rest of sentence
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alliteration
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repetition of same sound
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assonance
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repetition of sounds within words
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loose sentences
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main clause containing main idea comes first in sentence
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periodic sentences
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main clause containing main idea comes last in sentence
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latinate
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DICTION polysyllabic
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anglo saxon
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DICTION monosyllabic
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ellipsis
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...
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ad hoc argument
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in repsonse to a specific problem
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satire
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humorous, criticizes society without offering a solution
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