First 50 Words

Question 0

Aim

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The goal a writer or speaker hopes to achieve with the text.

Question 1

Aesthetic reading

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Reading to experience the world of text

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Allegory

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An extended metaphor

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Alliteration

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The repetition of constant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words.

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Anadiplosis

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The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

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Anecdote

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A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience’s attention or to support a generalization or claim

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Anglo-Saxon diction

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Word choice characterized by simple, often one or two syllable, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs

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Antecedent-Consequence Relationship

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The relationship expressed by if then reasoning

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Appositive

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A noun or noun phase that follows another noun immediately and defines or amplifies its meaning.

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Asyndeton

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The omission of conjunctions between related clauses. “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

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Basic topic

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One of the four perspectives that Aristotle explained could be used to generate material about any subject matter: greater or less, possible and impossible, past fact and future fact.

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Canon

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One of the traditional elements of rhetorical compo-invention, arrangement,style, memory or delivery

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Context

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The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated

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Declaiming

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Heightening a message by emphasis pitch, volume, and pause and by using gestures and movements

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Deductive reasoning

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Reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle

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Dialect

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The describable patterns of language- grammar and vocab- used by a particular cultural or ethnic population

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Diction

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Word choice which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/connotative value

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Double entendre

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The double or multiple meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous

Question 18

Dramatic monologue

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A type of poem, popular primarily in the nineteenth century, in which the speaker is delivering a monologue to an assumed group of listeners

Question 19

Effect

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The emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader or listener

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Efferent reading

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Reading to garner info from a text

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Enthymeme

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Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated

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Ethos

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The appeal of the text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator

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Evidence

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The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion

Question 24

Extended analogy

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An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in on or two ways, they are probably similar in other ways as well

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Fable

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A narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance

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Genre

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A piece of writing classified by type-ex. Letter, narrative, eulogy, or editorial

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Heuristic

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A systematic strategy or method for solving problems

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration for effect

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Image

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A passage of text that evokes sensation or emotional intensity

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Inductive reasoning

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Reasoning that begins by citing a number Rolf specific instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle

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Jargon

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The specialized vocab of a particular group

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Loose sentence

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A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement

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Metaphor

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An implied comparison that does not use the word like or as

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Mood

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The feeling that a text is intended to produce in the audience

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Onomatopoeia

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A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning- buzz, moan

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Parallelism

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A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph

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Periodic sentence

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A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and or complement

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Petitio principi

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Begging of the question;disagreeing with premises or reasoning

Question 39

Poem

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Louise Rosenblatt’s term for the interpretive moment when a reader and text connect

Question 40

Rhetoric

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the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

Question 41

Rhetorical question

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figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point. The question, a rhetorical device, is posed not to elicit a specific answer, but rather to encourage the listener to consider a message or viewpoint.

Question 42

Scheme

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An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences

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Soliloquy

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Dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself or herself

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Syllogism

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Logical reasoning from inarguable premises

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Syntax

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The order of words in a sentence

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Tautology

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A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed

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Trope

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An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas

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Verisimilitude

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The quality of a text that reflects the truth of the actual experience

Question 49

Voice

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The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that comfy a writer’s or speaker’s persona