APL Rhetorical Terms

Question 1

abstract

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refers to the language rather than concept images (ideas that qualify rather than observational or specific things usually biased on concrete language

Question 2

Allegory

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an extended narrative in pros or verse in which a characters events and settings represent and abstract quality’s in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story. the underlying meaning may be moral religious political social or satiric

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Anecdote

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a short simple narrative or an incident used for humorous effect or to make a point

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annotation

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explanatory notes added to a text to explain cite sources or to give bibliographical data

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anthesis

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the presentation of comping two contrasting images the ideas are balanced by a word phrase clause or paragraph “to be or not to be” and “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your county”

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aphroism

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a short often witty statement of a principal or a truth about life “early bird gets the worm

Question 7

Apostrophe

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usually in poetry but sometimes in prose; the device of personified abstraction

Question 8

argumentation

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writing in a attempt to prove the vitality of a statement

Question 9

cacophony

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harsh awkward or dishonest sounds used deliberately in poetry

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caricicture

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descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific persons personality or facts of personality

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colloquium

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a word or phrase used in every day convorsation and informal writing but is often a inappropriate in formal writing

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coherence unity

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quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the central theme

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connotative

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implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its coalation in the readers mind

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concurrence

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repetition of identical consonant sounds with two or more in close proximity as in-boost/best

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conundrum

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a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun may also be a paradox.difficult problem
deduction

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deduction

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the process of moving from a general rule to a specific example

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denotation

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define

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description

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the picturing of words of something or some one detailed observation of color motion sound taste smell and touch

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dictate

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writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach it is usually formal or ethical it may be fiction or nonfiction and teaches a specific lesson or moral

Question 20

discorse

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spoken or written language the four traditional modes of this are description exposition narration and persuasion

Question 21

emotional appeal

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when a writer appeals to an audience’s emotions (usually through pathos) to excite involve them in a argument

Question 22

epigraph

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the use of quotation marks at the beginning of a work to hint at a theme on of term is “you are a lost generation”

Question 23

ethical appeal

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ethos when a writer tries to presuad a audience to respect and believe him through appeal in the text. some time reputation is a factor but in all cases it is used to gain audience confidence.

Question 24

euphasim

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a more pleasant way of saying something that would otherwise be used as inappropriate such as “he went to his final reward” is to “he died” is often used to obscure the final outcome military uses “collateral damage”” for “civilian deaths”

Question 25

euphony

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a succession of harmonious sounds the opposite of cacophony

Question 26

example

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an individual instance used to represent a problem. arguing by example is considered reliable if examples are considered true

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explictation

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the art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of text usually involves close reading or special attention to figurative language

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exposition

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the immediate revelation to the audience to the setting and other background information used to understand the plot one of the four modes of discourse

Question 29

genre

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type of literary work such as poetry or novel there are also sub genres such as sci-fi or sonnet

Question 30

humor

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anything that causes laughter or amusement up until the end of the Renaissance it meant a persons temperance

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hyberbol

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deliberate exaggeration used to create humor to empasis

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image

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a word or words on an object used to depict something to the point to where you could see it in your head when read

Question 33

jargon

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the special language of a profession or group the term jargon usually has pejorative associations with the implications that jargon is tentative and serious tedious and unintelligible to outsiders the writings as a language and literary critique are both susceptible to jargon

Question 34

logical appeal logos

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when a author tries to persuade using facts and statistics.

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lyrical

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song-like character emotions and subjectivity and imagionation

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mode

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the method or form of a literary work the manner in which literature is written in

Question 37

narration

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the telling of a story

Question 38

parellelism

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a technique of arranging words and other forms of writing side by side and making them in similar form ex. “we will fight on the beaches, we will fight on the landing grounds, we will fight in the fields.”

Question 39

parody

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work that ridicules the style of anothers work exagerating its elements it can be uterly mocking or geroursly humorus

Question 40

pathetic appeal- pathos

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where a writer appeals to emotion