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21 Cards in this Set
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Detail |
The facts revealed by the author or speaker which support the attitude or tone |
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Anecdote |
A short entertaining account of some happening, frequently personal or biographical |
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Concrete detail |
Details and evidence that relate to the topic |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words |
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Anaphora |
repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences or lines of poetry
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Antithesis |
the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in parallel structure |
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Asyndeton |
the omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect |
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Polysyndeton |
employing many conjunctions between clauses often slowing the tempo or rhythm |
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Balanced Sentence |
A sentence in which the phrases or clauses balance each other by virtue of their likeness of structure, meaning, or length |
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Chiasmus |
figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second |
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Epistrophy |
ending a series of lines, phrase or sentences with the same word or words |
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Juxtaposition |
a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another in order to create an emphatic effect |
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Loose/Paratactic Sentence Structure |
a sentence in which the modifiers follow the basic SVC pattern |
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Parallelism |
ideas of equal importance placed in similar grammatical form |
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Periodic Sentence Structure |
sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end |
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Repetition |
Device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis |
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Rhetorical Fragment |
a sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect |
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Ethos |
Rhetorical appeal to the speaker or writer's own credibility and character as a reasonable, reliable, good person |
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Pathos |
appeals made to evoke an audience's emotions |
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Logos |
Appeals to the audience's logic and reasoning by constructing logical, well-reasoned argument and message |
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Enumeration |
The listing of details |
