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17 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Opening |
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Ending |
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Paragraphing |
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Coherency |
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Lack of Coherency |
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Use of structural adverbials |
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Overlapping |
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Antithesis |
Antithesis, literal meaning opposite, is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
FUNCTION: When contrasting ideas are brought together, the idea is expressed more emphatically.As a literary device, antithesis makes contrasts in order to examine pros and cons of a subject under discussion and helps to bring forth judgment on that particular subject. |
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Syntactic patterns |
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Repetitions |
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Semantic fields |
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Contrast |
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Bathos |
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Setting the agenda
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Turn-Taking
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interrogative statements
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Parenthetical statements
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Explains or qualifies something
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