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29 Cards in this Set
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Ad Hominem |
an attack used in an argument that focuses on the opponent's personality, character, or other qualities instead of on the opponent's supporting evidince. |
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Arguement |
Written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks |
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Author's Organization |
How the author creates the passage and puts it together. Ex. Cause and effect,sequencing,problem and solution,definition, order of importance, and chronological order. |
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Author's Purpose |
Why the person wrote the entire story,speech, article, etc. |
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Categorical Claim |
These are misleading and often false statements that appeal to emotion, logic, credibility/athority. |
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Chronological |
Listing events and information in time order |
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Compare |
To find similarities (similarly, likewise, also, like) |
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Conclude |
To arrive at a conclusion; to guess based on information given |
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Compare |
To fins differences (yet, but, unlike, instead) |
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Dialogue |
To communicate by statement |
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Excerpt |
A smaller section of a larger piece of work; one paragraph excerpt from an entire novel |
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External Conflict |
The struggle between opposing forces in a story or play. Ex. Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society |
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Foreshadowing |
Writer gives an advanced hint of what's going to come later in the story |
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Hyperbole |
Extreme exaggeration |
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Imagery |
An author's use of vivid and discriptive language/words that create a picture in the reader's head |
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Infer |
The ending; what the reader can decide will happen next based on text clues |
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Internal Conflict |
The struggle within a character a story or play. Ex. Man vs. Self |
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Main Idea |
Thw overall idea of a story, article, speech, etc. |
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Metaphor |
A comparison of two things without using like or as |
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Mood |
Thw emotion/feelings the reader is feeling about a piece of text |
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Personification |
Giving nonliving things human characteristics |
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Point of View |
The storyteller or 'voice' of the work. Ex. First person, third person, third person limited, thied person omniscient |
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Simile |
A comparison of two unlike things using the word like or as |
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Stage directions |
Text of a play, especially one indicateingthe movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting |
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Stereotyping |
Making an unfair, too- broad statement about a person or group of people |
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Summarize |
A smaller, more concise text that includes the main points from the entire original text. Think BME - Beginning-Middle-End - while doing this |
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Theme |
The life lesson learned in a story |
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Tone |
The attitude an author has towards their writing |
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Rhetorical fallacies |
A position (on a topic) which has evidence (factual claims, common place assertions, opinions) to support that position |
