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Apology |
A justification or defense of the writers opinion or conduct |
Not usually implying an admission of blame |
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Apppeal |
One of the three stategies for persuading an audience |
Emotional- targets audiences emotions instead of pratical or impractical Ethical- targets the audience's rights or moral value- their sense of right and wrong Logical- relies on evidence and reasoning to persuade its audience - usally incorporates statistics or other evidence to support a rational argument |
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Assonance |
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds of neighboring words |
Repetition |
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Asyndeton |
Omitting conjunction between words, phrases, or clauses. |
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Atmosphere |
The enotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work , established partly by the setting or the authors choice of objectd that are described |
Foreshadows events, perhaps creating a mood |
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Caricature |
A verbal description the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort for comic effect a persons physical features or characteristic |
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Chiasmus |
Figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax but reverse in order of the analogous words |
Greek word criss cross. " the land was ours before we were the lands" robert frost. " pleasures a sin and sometimes sins a pleasure" lord bryon |
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Clause |
A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. A subordinate clause cannot stand a lone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent clause. |
Why does the author subordinate one element to the other? |
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Claim |
The point backed up by support of an argument . the ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point that the syllogism or enthymeme expresses. |
Grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck claim that the poor are wrongly mistreated |
