26-...... Flashcards

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Tone

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Attitude of writer toward a subject or audience

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2
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Process analysis

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Step by step breakdown of a process

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3
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Syntax

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How you arrange the text/language

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4
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Provocative diction

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Purposeful choice of words serving to provoke or excite a provocative question

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5
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Classification

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Act or process of classifying something according to shared characteristics

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6
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Understatement

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Trying to decrease the intensity of a situation

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7
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Colorful diction

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Purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone

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8
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Counter argument

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Set of reasons to oppose another argument

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Claim

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Somebody gives an argument to support their position

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10
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Evidence

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Appears diff in diff essays in form of paragraphs and quotations

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Warrant

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Holds argument together// links evidence to claim

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12
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Fallacy

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Erroneous argument upon an unsound or illogical contention

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13
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Logical fallacy

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Pattern of reasoning/ thinking rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure

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14
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Prophecy

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Forecasts future. More of a religious connotation. Uncertain about time

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15
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Prediction

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Forecast made by those who calculate the parameters of the subject in loved after evaluation of the odds they can predict the future

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