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The omission of conjunctions between related clauses-for example, " i came, i saw i conquered"

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Asyndeton

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The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words, she sell sea shells

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Assonance

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a noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning

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appositive1

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Logos pathos ethos

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Appeal

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Type of soliquoy where nature is addressed as though human

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apostrophe

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A concise statement designed to make a point of illustrate a commonly held belief, "spare rod spoil child"

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Aphorism

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Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas place your virtues on a pedestal, vices on a rock

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antithesis

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repetition of words in successive claues in reverse grammatical order you can take boy out of country but you cant take the country out of the boy.

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antimetabole

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Noun to which a pronoun refers

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antecedent

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repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at teh beginning of two or more sentences in a row

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anaphora

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repetition of the last word of one clause at teh beginning of the following clause

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anadiplosis

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object event or custom, person that is out of order in time

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anachronism

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uncertain capable of being understood in two or more senses or ways

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ambiguity

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a reference in a wirtten of spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge

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allusion

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a work that functions well on a symbolic level

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allegory

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in an arguement this is an attack on the person rather the opponents ideas.

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ad hominem

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a comparison of two similar but different things or situations used to clarify an action or relationship

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analogy

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brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to support a generaization or claim

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anecdote

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A trope in which one word, usually a noun of the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning

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zeugma

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The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actualy experience. voice

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verisimilitude

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The sense that a text is appropriately about only one subject and achieves one purpose

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unity

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an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas

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trope

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the writers or speakers attitude toward the subject matter

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tone

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The main idea in a text, often the main generalization, conclusion, or claim

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thesis

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the order of words in a sentence

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syntax

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A part of something used to refer to the whole

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synecdoche

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in a text, an element that stands for more than itself and therefore helps to convey a theme of a text

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symbol

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logical reasoning from inargueable premises

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syllogism

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the choices that writers or speakers make in construction and language of a piece of writing

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style

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in classical rhetoric, a speech consisting of exordium narration

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six-part oration

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a type of comparison that uses the word like or as

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simile

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An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences

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scheme

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art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer speaker or listener might make in a situation.

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rhetoric

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In a text, repeated use of sounds, words,phrases, or clauses to emphasize meaning or achieve

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repetition

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the specialized vocabulary of a particular group

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jargon

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an understatement

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litotes

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the art of reasoning

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logic

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a sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject verb and complement

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loose statement

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an entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations

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metonymy

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In ancient Roman oratory, the part of speech in which the speaker provided background info on the topic

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narration

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a set of similarly structured words,phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph

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parallelism

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inform convince persuade

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purpose

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in Ancient Roman oratory anticipate objections to the points being raised and counter them

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refutation

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a set of assumptions, skills, facts, and experience that a reader brings to a text to make meaning

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repertoire

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an inverted relationship between syntatic elements of parallel phrases

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chiasmus

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the ultimate conclusion generalization or point that a syllogism or enthymeme

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claim

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Quality of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the thesis

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coherence

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the implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly "dictionary meaning"

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connotation

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writing with the purpose to instruct or teach, usually formal and focuses ona moral or ethical concerns

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didactic

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the omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage

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ellipsis

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logical reasoning with one premise left unstated

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enthymeme

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the repitition of a group of words, "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil"

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epistorphe

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a word or phrase adding a characteristic to a persons name for example

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epithet

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an indirect expression of unpleasant info in such a way as to lessen its impact-eliminated rather than fired

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euphemism

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In ancient Roman oratory, the introduction of a speech, literally the "web" meant to draw the audience into the speech

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exordium

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background info presented in a literary work

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exposition

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a part of a text classified according to its function

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functional part

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a systematic strategy or method for solving problems

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heauristic

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an exaggeration for effect

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hyperbole

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writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken

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irony

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parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similiar not only in grammatical structure but also in lenght

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