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Chapter 1-2 Flashcards

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Rhetoric

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The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion

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Audience

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One or many of whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed

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Context

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Occasion or time and place a speech was written or spoken

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Purpose

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A goal the speaker or writer wants to achieve

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Bias

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Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue

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Thesis, claim, assertion

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Clear and focused statement

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Subject

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Topic addressed in a piece of writing

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Speaker

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Person who’s perspective is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing

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Rhetoric/ Aristotelian triangle

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Relationship among speaker, subject and audience

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Persona

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The character the speaker creates when he or she writes or speaks

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Ethos

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Speakers character showing credibility and trustworthy

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Tone

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Authors attitude toward the subject

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Logos

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Clear, main idea with specific details, example facts, statistical data, or expert testimony as support

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Assumption

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Underlying/unstated belief; belief taken for granted without proof

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Counter argument

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Objection to opposing views

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Concede

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Elements of an opposing argument are true

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Refute

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Discredit ab argument; or a counter argument

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Pathos

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Appealing to emotion

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Analyzing argument

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Identify the specific emotion that the author or speaker is appealing to

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Connotations

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Implications of feelings of a word

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Propagandistic

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Negative term for writing rather to sway opinion than present information

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Polemic

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Argument against an idea usually regarding philosophy, politics or religion

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Satire

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Ironic, sarcastic or witty composition that claims to argue for something but actually argues against it; often political

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Arrangement

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Organization of a piece; how an author sets up an argument

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Patterns of development

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How the author builds an argument

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Narration

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Telling a story or recounting a series of events

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Description

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Emphasizes the senses by painting a picture of how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes or feels; to establish a mood or atmosphere

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Process analysis

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Explains how something works, how to do something or how something was done

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Exemplification

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Providing a series of examples, facts, specific cases of instances (to turn a general idea to a concrete one)

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Compare and contrast

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Juxtaposing(putting 2 things together to compare) two things to highlight their similarities and differences

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Classification and division

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Reader and writers can organize things into side by side categories

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Definition

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Lays the foundation to establish a common ground or identifying the areas of conflict

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Cause and effect

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Causes that lead to a certain effect or the effects that result from a cause

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Induction

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Series of specific examples that leads to a general conclusion

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Close reading

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Analysis of a text

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Colloquialisms

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Informal or conversational use of language

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Style

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Distinctive quality of language or writing created by selection of words in speech

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Diction

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Word choice

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Syntax

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Arrangement of words

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Trope

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Artful diction

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Metaphor

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Implicit comparison/one thing is spoken of as though it were something else

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to something not human

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Scheme

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Artful syntax; skillful arrangement of words

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Apostrophe

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Addressing something as human that is not human or there

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Parallelism

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Religion of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns

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Juxtaposition

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Placement of 2 things side by side for emphasis or comparison

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Antithesis

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Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas

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Figures of speech

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Expression that strives for literacy effect rather than conveying literal meaning

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Periodic

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A sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause

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Cumulative

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Independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail

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Annotation

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Reading with pencil or pen and talking to the text

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Thesis statement

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A statement of the central idea in a work

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Topic sentences

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Sentence at the beginning of a paragraph that announces the paragraph idea and unites with thesis

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Imagery

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Vivid use of land have that evokes a readers senses

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Oxymoron

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Figure of speech that combines 2 contradictory terms (adjective and noun composition example: bitter sweet)

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Dialectical journal

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Double entry notebook

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Zeugma

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A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs - often indifferent sometimes incongruent ways - 2 or more words in a sentence

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Graphic organizer

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Another way to organize thoughts about specific text; using paragraph divisions in text as natural breaking points that reveal interesting style choices

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Antecedent

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Word that comes before what it is meant for

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Archaic

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Old fashioned

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Complex sentences

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Sentence that contains a subordinate clause

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Declarative sentences

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Sentences that make statements

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines

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Horative

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Language that urges or calls to action

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Imperative

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Making a command

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words in a reverse order

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Metonym

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Using a single feature to represent the whole

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