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rhetorical questions
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questions which expect no answers used to draw attention to a point
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rehtorical strategies
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how the author organizes words, sentences or argument to achieve a purpose
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Rogerian method
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presenting a particular point of view or claim only to disagree with it later
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satire
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a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony derision or wit
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selection of detail
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specific words incidents images or events the author usues to create a scene or narrative
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rhetorical questions
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questions which expect no answers used to draw attention to a point
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rehtorical strategies
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how the author organizes words, sentences or argument to achieve a purpose
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Rogerian method
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presenting a particular point of view or claim only to disagree with it later
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satire
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a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony derision or wit
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selection of detail
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specific words incidents images or events the author usues to create a scene or narrative
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simile
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a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as
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speaker
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the persona in an essay or poem:the point of view character in fiction
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strategy
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rhetorical strategy
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syllogism
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a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion
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symbol
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anything which represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention
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tension
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a feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work
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texture
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the way the elements of a work are joined together
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theme
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central idea of a work
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tone
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element which describes the author's attitude toward his or her subject, the audience, or both
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understatement
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the ironic minimalizing of fact which presents something as less significant that it is
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conceit
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another term for extended metaphor a conceit usually makes an unusual connection between the two subjects being compared and is often the framework for an entire poem or an entire paragraph or more of an essay
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concession
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acknowledging a valid point of an opposing argument by agreeing
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appeal to authority
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a technique in argument in which the writer refers to quotes or paraphrases a recognized authority on the subject of the argument to achieve validity
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man
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trope
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any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
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