First 50 Words Flashcards
Aim
The goal a writer or speaker hopes to achieve with the text.
Aesthetic reading
Reading to experience the world of text
Allegory
An extended metaphor
Alliteration
The repetition of constant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words.
Anadiplosis
The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
Anecdote
A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience’s attention or to support a generalization or claim
Anglo-Saxon diction
Word choice characterized by simple, often one or two syllable, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs
Antecedent-Consequence Relationship
The relationship expressed by if then reasoning
Appositive
A noun or noun phase that follows another noun immediately and defines or amplifies its meaning.
Asyndeton
The omission of conjunctions between related clauses. “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
Basic topic
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.
Canon
One of the traditional elements of rhetorical compo-invention, arrangement,style, memory or delivery
Context
The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated
Declaiming
Heightening a message by emphasis pitch, volume, and pause and by using gestures and movements
Deductive reasoning
Reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle
Dialect
The describable patterns of language- grammar and vocab- used by a particular cultural or ethnic population
Diction
Word choice which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/connotative value
Double entendre
The double or multiple meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous
Dramatic monologue
A type of poem, popular primarily in the nineteenth century, in which the speaker is delivering a monologue to an assumed group of listeners
Effect
The emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader or listener
Efferent reading
Reading to garner info from a text
Enthymeme
Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated
Ethos
The appeal of the text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator
Evidence
The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion
Extended analogy
An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in on or two ways, they are probably similar in other ways as well
Fable
A narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance
Genre
A piece of writing classified by type-ex. Letter, narrative, eulogy, or editorial
Heuristic
A systematic strategy or method for solving problems
Hyperbole
An exaggeration for effect
Image
A passage of text that evokes sensation or emotional intensity
Inductive reasoning
Reasoning that begins by citing a number Rolf specific instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle
Jargon
The specialized vocab of a particular group
Loose sentence
A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement
Metaphor
An implied comparison that does not use the word like or as
Mood
The feeling that a text is intended to produce in the audience
Onomatopoeia
A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning- buzz, moan
Parallelism
A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph
Periodic sentence
A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and or complement
Petitio principi
Begging of the question;disagreeing with premises or reasoning
Poem
Louise Rosenblatt’s term for the interpretive moment when a reader and text connect
Rhetoric
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Rhetorical question
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.
Scheme
An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences
Soliloquy
Dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself or herself
Syllogism
Logical reasoning from inarguable premises
Syntax
The order of words in a sentence
Tautology
A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed
Trope
An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas
Verisimilitude
The quality of a text that reflects the truth of the actual experience
Voice
The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that comfy a writer’s or speaker’s persona