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20 Cards in this Set
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ALLUSION |
a reference in a written work or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge
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ANALOGY |
an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things
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ANAPHORA |
the repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
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ANECDOTE |
a brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to support a generalization or a claim
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ANNOTATE |
to take notes and make comments about a text in the margins while reading a text
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ANTITHESIS |
the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure--for example, "lace your virtues on a pedestal; put your vices under a rock."
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APPEAL |
one of three strategies for persuading audences--logos, appeals to reason; pathos, appeals to emotion; and ethos, appeals to ethics/credibility
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CLAIM |
the point, backed up by support, of an argument
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CONNOTATION |
the implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed "dictionary meaning"
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DENOTATION |
the "dictionary" definition of a word, in contrast to its connotation, or implied meaning
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DICTION |
word choice
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ETHOS |
the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator
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HYPERBOLE |
an exaggeration for effect
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IMAGERY |
language that invokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader
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INFERENCE |
a conclusion that a reader or listener reaches by means of his or her own thinking rather than by being told directly by a text
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LOGOS |
the appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas
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METAPHOR |
an implied conparison that doesn't use the work like or as--for example, "His voice was a cascade of emotion"; the most important of all tropes
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METONYMY |
an entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations--for example, "The admissions office claims that applications have risen."
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PARADOX |
a statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless
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PARALLELISM |
a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph
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