English

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The analysis of how a writer uses language for a distinct purpose and effect, including word choice and figures of speech.

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Diction

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Personal Writing.
ex. Bug (worm, fly)

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Informal

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Academic or Literary Writing.
ex. Germ (bug)

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Formal

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Conversational language of a certain region.

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Colloquial

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Highly informal and not appropriate for most writing.

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Slang

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The special language of a profession or group that is usually formal.

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Jargon

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Look
Walk
Sit

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General

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Gaze, stare, peer, ogle
Stride, slink, trot, shuffle

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Specific

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One syllable word

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Monosyllabic

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More than one/many syllables

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Polysyllabic

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Referential - dictionary

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Denotative

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Emotive - emotional

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Connotative

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Pleasant sounding

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Euphonious

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Harsh sounding

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Cacophonous

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- Not material
- Representing a thought

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Abstract

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- Real, actual
- Specific, not general

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Concrete

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Old fashion words, out of use.

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Archaic

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Sentence structure. Examining sentence patterns and variety for an effect.

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Syntax

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Statement function

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Declarative

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Question function

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Interrogative

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Command function

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Imperative

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Exclamation function

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Exclamatory

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One subject, one verb

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Simple Sentence

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Two independent clauses joined by a conjunction of a semicolon.

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Compound Sentence

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One independent, one or more subordinate clause.

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Complex Sentence

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Two or more independent and one or more subordinate clauses.

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Compound Complex Sentence

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Main idea stated at the beginning of the sentence followed by additional information.

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Loose

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Main idea withheld until the end of the sentence. It makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached.

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Periodic

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The phrases or clauses balance each other in likeness or structure, meaning, and/or length.

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Balanced/Parallel

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The subject comes first followed by the predictable.

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Natural Order

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The predictable comes before the subject.

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Inverted Order

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The predicate is divided into two parts with the subject coming in the middle.

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Split Order

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A poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise.

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Juxtaposition

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A device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once for the purpose of enhancing the rhythm and creating emphasis.

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Repetition

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A question which expects to answer used to draw attention to a point and is usually stronger than a direct statement.

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Rhetorical Question

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A contrast used for emphasis (of two sentences).
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

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Antithesis

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The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
"I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize."

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Anaphora

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The deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses.
"They dove, splashed, floated, splashed, swam, snorted."

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Asyndeton

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A sentence strategy in which the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first.
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

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Chiasmus

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The same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
"We are born to sorrow, pass our time in sorrow, end our days in sorrow."

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Epistrophe

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The deliberate use of many conjunctions for the special emphasis.
"We lived and laughed and loved and left."

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Polysyndeton

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The use of a verb that has two different meanings with objects that complement both meanings.
"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."

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Zeugma

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- The manner of expression showing the speaker's attitude toward characters, events, or situations.
- Tone is reflected in the speaker's "voice"

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Tone

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Using "I"

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First Person

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Using "he, she, or it"

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Third Person

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Using "he, she, it"
A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story

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Third Person Omniscient

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The reader and writer observe the situation from the outside, standing apart from all characters in the story.

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Third Person Limited Omniscient

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- Unbroken flow of perceptions, thoughts, and feelings
- First or Third person
- Narrator records in detail what passes through a character's mind

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Stream of Consciousness

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A sentence is fewer than 5 words.

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Telegraphic

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A sentence is 5-10 to 15 words.

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Short

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A sentence is 15-18 to 25-30 words.

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Medium

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A sentence is 30 and more words.

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Long and involved