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30 Cards in this Set
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Rhetoric
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the art of using words persuasively and effectively in writing and speaking.
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Involves grammer, logic, style, and figures of speach
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Redundancy
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wordiness; needless repetition; tautology
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Examples:"Big in size","in my opinion, i think", "at this point in time","Jewish rabbi".
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Malapropism
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ridiculous misuse of word for another one that sounds like it.
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"they won the world serious"
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Euphemism
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a mild expression substituted for a distasteful one.
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"resting place" for "grave"
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Triteness
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dullness in the expression or content; lack of freshness and creativity.
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Acronym
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a word made up from the initial letters or syllablas of a title or phase
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MADD(Mothers Against Drunk Drivers)
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Antonym
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a word of opposite meaning.
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Tall and short, fast and slow, smart and stupid.
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Homonym
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a word that sounds like another word but has a different meaning and usually different spelling
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Air and heir, past and passed, site and cite.
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Concreteness
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quality of being specific and of referring to particular things
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Connotation
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the suggestiveness and emtional associations of a word, apart from its denotation, or literal meaning
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Prose
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writting or speech which is not poetry
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newspappers, magazines, or conversation
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Exposition
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writing which explains or informs
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Precis
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A short condense version of piece of writing
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Plagiarism
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coping the language or ideas of another author and presenting them as your own
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Paraphrase
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to restate a passage in different words.
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Ellipsis
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the omission of words, as from quoted material, usually indicated by three dots or asterisks.
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Begging the question
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assuming what has yet to be proved
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It's a waste of money to give thae murderer a trial- just string im up.
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Post Hoc
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assuming that one thing caused another merely because it happened earlier
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Ad Hominem
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appearing to a person's prejudices or selfish interests rather than to his reason
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Non Sequitur
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a conclusion that does not follow from evidence presented
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Bandwagon Device
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persuasion to join the popular or winning side
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Faulty Dilemma
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the offering of only two alternatives when more than two exist
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Analogy
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an extended comparison to clarify an idea
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Socratic Irony
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the device of pretending to be ignorant and asking questions in order to trap the opponent into obvious error
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Fragment
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an incomplete sentence
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Comma Splice
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the use of a comma between main clause where a period or semicolon should be.
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Infinitive
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a verbal form that consists usually of "to" plus a verb,
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"to walk"
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Participle
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a verbal adjective
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Flying in a battered plane
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Parallelism
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similarity of grammatical structure given to similar ideas
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Idiom
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an accepted phrase that is contrary to the usual language pattern
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catch a cold, pick a fight, give in
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