Day 5 Flashcards

1
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*Invective

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Verbally abusive attack

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2
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Inversion

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Reversing of the customary

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3
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Jargon

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Special language of a profession or group; usually has pejorative associative that it is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to the outsider

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4
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Logical Appeal

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Logos; persuasion via facts, statistics, and reasoning

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5
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Lyrical

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Songlike; emotion, subjectivity, and imagination

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6
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Mode

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Method or form of literary work (how it’s written)

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7
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Narration

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Telling of a piece of literature; one of the four modes of discourse

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8
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Objectivity

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Unbiased presentation of events and characters

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9
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Oversimplification

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Obscuring or denying complexity of issues in an argument

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10
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Oxymoron

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Figure of speech composed of contradictory words/phrases

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11
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Pacing

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Moving of literature from one point to another

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12
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Parable

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Short tale that teaches a moral; similar to allegory, but shorter

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