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45 Cards in this Set
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Rhetoric
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The art that humans use to process all the messages sent ad recieved
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Audience
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group of people the author is addressing
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Assumption
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A belief which the author believes his audience holds
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Speaker
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person telling the story (may be different than author)
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Example
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anecdote that supports a claim
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Tone
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Authors attitude towards subject
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Diction
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Word choice
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Symbol
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Element that stands for more than itself, used to convey a theme
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Logos
Ethos Pathos |
Apply to logic
Apply to ethics Apply to emotion |
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Genre
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a type of writing; affect by context and purpose
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Invention
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generating material for a piece of writing
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Journalistic questions
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Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
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Burke's Pentad
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Act: What happened
Scene: When and where did it happen Agent: Who did it Agency: How was it done Purpose: Why was it done |
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Ratios
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The relationships between the elements of the pentad
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Casuistries
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A mental exercise to descover possiblities for analysis of communication
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Syllogism
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Enthymeme with missing major premise
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Begging the question
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disagreeing with the already stated premise
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Topics
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strategies for the presenting of ideas
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Possible & impossible
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If X is possible, then so is Y, OR if X is impossible, then so is Y; Basic Topic
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Past Fact
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Given X, Y probably happened in the past; Basic Topic
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Future Fact
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Given X, Y will probably happen in the future; Basic Topic
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Greater & less
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Since X happened, so will Greater-Than-X, OR if Y happened, so will Less-Than-Y; Basic Topic
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Definition
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generated information; by defining key terms; Common Topic
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Division
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generates information; divide the subject matter into parts; Common Topic
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Comparison and Contrast
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generate similarities and differences; Common Topic
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Relationships
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shows the relation between different parts of the subject matter; Common Topic
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Antecedent-consequence
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"If...Then" reasoning
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Casual relationship
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cause and effect
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Circumstances
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included Possible/Impossible, past fact, future fact; Common Topic
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Testimony
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investigating authorities for material; Common Topic
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Arrangement
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2nd Canon: Principles: 1. order and structure the parts of a piece of writing, 2. support the different parts
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6-part arrangement
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1. Exordium: draws listeners in
2. Narration: background 3. Partition: divided the part of the subject 4. Confirmation: provides proof 5. Refutation: possible objections 6. Peroration: conclusion |
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Style
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3rd Canon; coices made by a writer concerning words and phrases
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Loose sentences
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Subject-Verb-extra
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Periodic
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extra-subject-verb OR
subject-extra-verb |
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Parenthesis
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An insertion of material that interrupt the typical flow of a sentence; Scheme
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Appositive
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noun phrase that defines another noun, Scheme
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Ellipsis
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The omission of words ,scheme
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Asyndeton
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Omission of conjections
I skated, I shot, I scored. Scheme |
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Assonance
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repitition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables
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Anaphora
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repetition of the same group of words; exercise builds stamina... exercise builds stamina... exercise builds stamina
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Epistrophe
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repetition of the same groups of words at the end of a clause
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Anadiplosis
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repition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
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Climax
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repetion or words in order of increasing number or importance
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Antithesis
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contrasting words placed right next to each other, in parallel structure
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