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46 Cards in this Set
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Aesthetic Reading |
Reading to explore work and ones self |
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Aim |
The purpose of the text |
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Allegory |
A story with a hidden meaning |
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Alliteration |
Repitition of the same first letters in a sentence |
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Anadipolis |
The repitition of the last word of one clause at the begginning of the next |
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Anecdote |
A short and amusing story about real incidents and people |
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Anglo-Saxon diction |
Old English |
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Antecedent consequence relationship |
Relationship expressed by "if....then" statements |
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Appositive |
A noun that follows another noun immedietly or defines or amplifies its meaning |
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Asyndeton |
An omission of conjunctions between related clauses |
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Basic topic |
Topics to help begin and compose rhetoric texts |
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Canon |
Five major catagories of rhetoric |
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Context |
Circumstances surrounding any writing situation |
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Declaiming |
To deliver a formal recitation |
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Deductive reasoning |
Top down logic |
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Dialect |
Language used by a specific people |
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Diction |
The style of a speaker |
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Double entendre |
A word or phrase open to two interpretations |
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Effect |
What the text makes you think about |
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Efferent reading |
Reading to take away bits of information |
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Enthymeme |
An unspoken point of a text |
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Ethos |
Credibility of the speaker |
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Evidence |
Things provided to strengthen your argument |
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Extended analogy |
An extended relationship between two different things in a text |
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Fable |
A short story usually with animals as characters that conveys a moral |
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Genre |
A specific type of text, music, film |
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Heuristic |
Enabling a person to learn something for themselves |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggerated statements or claims |
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Image |
The picture a text paints for you |
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Inductive reasoning |
Bottom up reasoning |
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Jargon |
Inside jokes but with words or expressions |
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Loose sentence |
A sentence in which the main idea is elaborated by successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases |
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Metaphor |
The comparision of two unlike things |
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Mood |
The general atmosphere |
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Parallelism |
Corresponding in some way |
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Periodic sentence |
A sentence that is not complete grammatically or semantically beford the final clause of phrase |
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Petition principi |
Circular reasoning. Your statement has the same meaning as your conclusion? |
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Rhetorical question |
A question asked in order to make a point, not to be answered |
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Scheme |
A change in standard word order or pattern |
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Soliloquy |
The act of speaking ones thoughts aloud |
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Syllogism |
A form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given propositions |
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Syntax |
An arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentenced in a language |
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Tautology |
A direct repitition of an idea |
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Trope |
A figuritive or metaphorical use of a word or expression |
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Verisimilitude |
The appearance of being true or real |
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Voice |
A form or format in which a speaker tells a story |
