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22 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Exordium
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"web" used to draw in the audience
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Parallelism
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Similarly structured words that appear in a sentence or paragraph.
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Pathos
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The appleal of the text to the emotions or interests of the audience
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voice
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diction + sentence structure that convey a writer's persona.
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evidence
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facts, anecdotes, statistics used in support of a claim.
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Genre
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A type of writing (letter, narrative, eulogy, editorial)
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Anaphora
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Repetition of a group of words
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Alliteration
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Repition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words.
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Anadiplosis
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The repetition of the last word of one clause at the start of the following clause.
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Heuristic
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Systematic strategy for solving problems.
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periodic sentence
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Sentence with elements included before verb or complement.
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Refutation
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part of speech were speaker counters objections to points being raised.
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Rhetor
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rhetoric being used effectively.
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Rhetoric
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the art of analyzing all the choices that a writer might make.
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Rhetorical triangle
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diagram showing the relations in a rhetorical situation.
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Metonymy
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An entity reffered to by one of its attributes.
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claim
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The point backed up by support of an argument.
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confirmation
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The part of a speech in which speaker offers a demonstration of central idea.
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contradiction
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urges speaker to invent an example that is counter to main idea
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Narration
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the part in which the speaker provides background info. on the topic.
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Antecedent-Consequence Relationships
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"if...then" reasons.
"If you do your chores, then you can leave." |
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Casual Relationship
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(cause and effect).
"If Y is the cause, then X is the effect." "If X is the effect, then Y caused it." |
