Hiroshima Vocab

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Antithesis

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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

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Assonance

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in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

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Alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Imagery

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visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

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Narrative shifts

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When a piece of writing or text shifts (or changes) narrator.The story is told from one point of view and then from another shifts from one narrator to another.

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Parallelism

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the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc

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Parenthetical statements

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explains or qualifies something

clauses or phrases used in sentences that contain secondary information unnecessary for the completion of the independent clause.

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Pronoun

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a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).

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Antecedent

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a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another

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Rhetorical appeals

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Aristotle argues that there are three elements to the art of persuasion:ethos: The rhetor is perceived by the audience as credible (or not).

pathos: The rhetor attempts to persuade the audience by making them feel certain emotions.

logos: The rhetor attempts to persuade the audience by the use of arguments that they will perceive as logical.

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Rhetorical effects

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purpose is to elicit a response from the reader

to elicit any response whatsoever or simply to shock the reader.

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Rhetorical modes

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describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking.

Four of the most common .......... ..... and their purpose are narration, description, exposition, and argumentation.[1]

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Loose sentence

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begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause. These phrases or clauses add information to the main or independent clause.

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Periodic sentence

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the main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made.

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Declarative sentence

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states a fact.

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Compound sentence

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a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.

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Complex sentence

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sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.

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Simple sentence

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a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate

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Synesthesia

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a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, sight, smell, and touch at a given time

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Tone

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the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.