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10 Cards in this Set
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Synecdoche
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a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean a stage or "wheels" to mean a car- or "All hands on deck."
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Syntactic Fluency
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Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, approximately complex and/or simple and varied in length.
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Syntactic Permutation
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Sentence structures that are extroardinarily complex and involved. They are often diffucult for a reader to follow.
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Syntax
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the grammatical structure of a sentence, kinds of sentences (questions, exclamations, declaritive sentences, rhetorical questions, simple, complex, or compound.
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Theme
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the central idea or "main message" of a literary work
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Thesis
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the main idea of a piece of writing. It presents the author's assertion or claim. The effectiveness of a presentation is often based on how well the writer presents, develops, and supports the thesis.
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Tone
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The characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience.
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Transition
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a word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, parpgraph to paragraph.
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Tricolon
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Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses.
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Understatement
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the opposite of exageration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.
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