Rhetorical Terms - Set 4

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Parody

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A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect/and or ridicule as comedy. Parody distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original. As ridicule, it mimics the work by repeating and borrowing words, phrases, or characteristics in order to illuminate weaknesses in the original. Well-written parody offers enlightening about the original, but poorly written parody offers only ineffectual imitation. Usually an audience must grasp literary allusion and understand the work being parodied in order to fully appreciate the nuance sof the newer work. Occasionally, however, parodies take on a life of their own and don't require knowledge of the original

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Pedantic

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An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general term that is overly scholarly academic or bookish.

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Engfish

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Periodic sentence

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A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main cause. At the end this independent clause is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone the effect of a periodic sentence is to add emphasis and structural theory. It is also a much longer sentence than the loose sentence

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Estatic with my AP score, I let out a loud, joyful shout.

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. Personification is used to make these abstractions,animals or objects more vivid to the reader

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Polysyndeton

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The figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (FANBOYS) not normally found in successive words, phrases. or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses. The effect is a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up - a persistent or intensity

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They read and write and write and drilled.

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Point of view

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In literature, the perspective from which a story is told. The first person narrator tells the story in the first person pronoun "I" and is a character in the story. This narrator can be the protagonist a participant or an observer. The second person narrator tells tells the story with the second person pronoun "you" and directly addresses or incorporated the reader into the story. The third person narrator relays the events with the third person pronouns "he," "she," and "it." There are two third person subdivisions to be aware of: omniscient (godlike perspective) and limited omniscient (in story character perspective). However when you are asked to analyze the author's point of view, the appropriate point for you to address is the author's attitude.

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Predicate adjective

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One type of subject complement is an adjective, group of adjective, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb. It is in the predicate of the sentence, and modifies, or describes, the subject.

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Predicate nominative

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A second type of complement - a noun, group of nouns, or a noun clause that names the subject. It, like the predicate adjective, follows a linking verb and is located in the predicate of the sentence

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Prose

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One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms. In prose, the printer determines the length of the line; in poetry, the poet determines the length of the line

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Repetition

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The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.

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Rhetoric

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From the Greek "orator," thus term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.

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Rhetorical modes

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This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purpose of the major kinds of writing. The four most common rhetorical modes and their purposes are as follows: the purpose of exposition, or expository writing, is to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion. The purpose of argumentation is to prove the validity of an idea, or point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion, and argument that thoroughly convinces the reader. Persuasive writing is a type of argumentation having an additional aim of urging some form of action. The purpose of description is to recreate, invent, or visually represent a person, place, event or action so that the reader can picture that being described. Sometimes an author engages all five senses in description; good descriptive writing can be sensuous and picturesque. Descriptive writing may be straightforward and objective or highly emotional and subjective. The purpose of narration is to tell the story or narrate an event or series of events. This writing mode frequently uses the tools of descriptive writing. These four modes are sometimes referred to as modes of discourse

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Rhetorical Question (erotesis)

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Differs from hypophora in that it is not answered by the way there because it's answer is obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no answer would suffice. It is used for effect, emphasis, or provocation, or for drawing a conclusion or statement from the fact that hand.

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Sarcasm

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From the Greek meaning "to tear flesh," sarcasm involves better, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. It may use irony as a device, but not all ironic statements arr sarcastic, that is, intended to ridicule. Well done, sarcasm can be witty and insightful semicolon when done poorly, it's simply cruel