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21 Cards in this Set
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language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things.
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Abstract Language
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Latin for "against man".
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Ad Hominem
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a story, fictional or non fictional in which characters, things and events represent qualities or concepts.
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Allegory
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The repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or vowel.
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Alliteration
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an indirect reference to something which the reader is supposed to be familiar.
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Allusion
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an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. the manner of expression of such an event or situation may be ambiguous.
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Ambiguity
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a comparison to a directly parallel case.
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Analogy
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Repetition of a word, phrase or clause at the beginning.
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Anaphora
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the brief recounting of a relevant episode.
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Ancedote
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explanatory notes added to a text to explain.
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Annotation
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a balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases or clauses.
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Antithesis
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Repetition of a vowel sound.
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Assonance
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Commas used to separate a series of words.
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Asyndeton
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Argument that draws on recognized experts or persons with highly relevant experience.
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Authority
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Support or evidence for a claim in an argument.
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Backing
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Construction in which both halves of the sentence are about the same length and importance.
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Balance
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often called circular reasoning.
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Begging the question
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a writer asserts that one thing results from another.
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Casual Relationship
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Arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern x,y,y,x. it is often short and summarizes the main idea.
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Chiasmus
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Shared beliefs or assumptions are often called this.
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Common Knowledge
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language that describes specific observable things people or places rather then ideas or quality.
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Concrete Language
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