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31 Cards in this Set
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diction
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imagery, connotative language
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syntax
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repetition, rhythm, pace
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choice of details
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significant ideas, effects
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arrangement of ideas
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beginning, ending, significance, chronological, episodic, comparison, definition
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claim
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your point, what you believe
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grounds
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evidence or reason for believing this to be true
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warrant
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why your grounds lead to your claim
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backing
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theoretical basis for your warrant's truth
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rebuttal
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opposing view that contradicts your claim
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qualifier
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a limit to your claim to warrant or backing
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pathos
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emotions, imagery, appeals, to common beliefs
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ethos
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credibility, show fair minded, civil person, acknowledge opposing side, presentation
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logos
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logic, applying rules to evidence
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periodic sentences
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a sentence with modifying elements before a verb
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loose sentence
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a sentence with modifying elements after a verb
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asyndeton
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omission of conjunctions between related clauses
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polysyndeton
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the use of conjunction between related clauses
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ellispses
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an omission of words with meaning provided by context
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climax
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repition of words, phrases
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tropes
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any artful variation from a typical expected way a word or idea is expressed
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alliteration
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beginning sound
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anaphora
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repitition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
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epistrophe
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repition of the same group of the words at the end of successive clauses
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synecdoche
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substitution of a part for the hole
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metonmy
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referring to an item using one of its qualities or something closely related to it
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dialect
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diction and speech patterns of certain people
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jargon
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using the diction of a specific industry or field of employment
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rhetorical questions
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no answer, but more the development of an idea
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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litotes
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understatement
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connotative language
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language that evokes emotion
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