Ap English 92-121

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Mode of discourse

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The way in which information is presented in a text before traditional modes are narration description exposition and argument

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Modifier

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A word phrase or clause that qualifies or describes another word

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Mood

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The quality of a verb that conveys the writer's attitude toward a subject the motion of evoked by a text

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Narration

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Retelling an event or series of events

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Narrative

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a rhetorical strategy that recounts a sequence of events usually in chronological order

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Occasion

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An aspect of contacts the cause or reason for writing

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Omniscient narrator

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An all-knowing usually third person narrator

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Onomatopoeia

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The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which contradictory terms up here side by side

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Pacing

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The relative speed or slowness with which the story is told or an idea is presented

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Paradox

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A statement that appears to contradict itself but it's actually true

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Parallelism

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The similarity of structure in a pair or series related words phrases or clauses

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Parody

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a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule

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pathos

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The means of persuasion that appeals to an audience emotion

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Periodic sentence

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A long and frequently involved sentence marked by suspended syntax in which the sense is not completed until the final word usually with an emphatic climax

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Persona

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The speaker voice or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities

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Point of view

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Their perspective from which a speaker or writer tells a story or presents information

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Polemic

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An argument against an idea usually regarding philosophy politics or religion

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polysyndeton

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The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions

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Premise major and minor

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Two parts of a syllogism the concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise

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Propaganda

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I- time for writing designed to sweat opinion rather than provide the information

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Prose

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Ordinary writing both fiction and non-fiction as distinguished from verse

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Purpose

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Ones and tensions or objective in speech or piece of writing

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Persuasion

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One of the major types of composition whose purpose is to convince others of the wisdom of a certain line of action

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Refute

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To argue ones point Counter argument

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Repetition

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Using an word more than once

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Rhetoric

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the study and practice of effective communications

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Rhetorical modes

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Patterns of organisation developed to achieve a specific purpose modes include but are not limited to narration description comparison cause and effect definition classification and division an exemplification process analysis and argumentation