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Mid-term Flashcards

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Methods of Development

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Quotes
Facts and Stats
Examples
Anecdotes
Reasons 
Sensory Details
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5 Cannons of Rhetoric

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Invention
Arrangement
Style
Memory
Delivery
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Writing Process

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Purpose (Why is the writer writing?)
Know your audience (influences what and how you write)
Code/Style (the writers language and how it is arranged)

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Rhetoric

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Artful use of the resources of language to create an effect

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Trope

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Artful diction, use of word, phrase or image in a way not intended by normal signification

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Scheme

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Artful syntax, change in standard word order or pattern

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

“The fleeing Greeks received me peacefully”

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds
“Your easy on the eyes”
“Hard on the heart”

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Allusion

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Brief, usual, indirect reference to a person, place, or event (real or fictional) often to another literary work

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Simile

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Similarity between 2 objects directly expressed

Usually uses “like” or “as”

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Metaphor

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Imaginatively identifying one object with another (lies)
Comparison that brings about emotional reaction
Stronger than just telling
Uses “was”

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Personification

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Giving human (living) traits to no living objects

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Hyperbole

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Extravagant exaggeration

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Epistrophe

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Repetition at end of sentences, phrases and clauses

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Ellipsis

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Omission of a word or short phrase easily understood in context
Signaled with …

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Chiasmas

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Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

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Oxymoron

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Trope that combines 2 normally contradictory words

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Rhetorical question

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It’s answer is obvious and not stated

Used for effect and emphasis

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Denotation

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Dictionary definition

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Connotation

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Emotional suggestions

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Syntax

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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language

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Ethos

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A sense the author/speaker gives as being competent, trustworthy, credible (expert testimony)

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Pathos

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An appeal to emotions of the audience, to their felt needs (pulling the heartstrings)

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Logos

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Use of logical reasoning through facts, case studies, statistics, experiments (pulling the brain strings)

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Analogy

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A comparison between 2 things

Can compare similar things

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Euphemism

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Deliberate or polite use of pleasant or neutral word to avoid emotional implications of a plain term
To soften, harmless

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Morpheme

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Individual units of meaning

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Phoneme

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Smallest unit of sound

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Diction

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Vocal or word choice

The force, accuracy and distinction with which they are used

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Etymology

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Study of the true sense of a word

Of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed thru history

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Jargon

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Specialized language of a trade, profession or similar group

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Lexicon

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Your word cache vocabulary

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Enumeration

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Takes a simple statement and expands it, breaking it down into parts and emphasizing the detail (often numbered/bulleted lists)

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Anaphora

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Repetition at beginning of sentences, phrases and clauses

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Semantics

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Study of meaning in language

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Rapport

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To build a relationship, establish positive feelings

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Juxtaposition

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To hold up 2 items side by side for purpose of comparison

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Doublespeak

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Pretends to communicate but really doesn’t, makes the bad seem good, negative appear positive, conceals, disceptive

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Archaic Diction

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Marked by characteristics of an earlier period

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Bookends

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Conclusion refers back to intro

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Hypothera

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Consists of raising one or more questions and proceeding to answer them, often at some length

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Tricolon

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3 commas, list of 3

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Antithesis

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A rhetorical term for the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases/clauses

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Anadiplosis

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Form of repetition in which the last word of one clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the following clause or sentence

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Rhetorical Shift

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Abrupt change in the flow of an argument (often shown by types of conjunctions like “but, however, although”)

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Amplification

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Repeating a word or expression in order to emphasize what might otherwise be passed over

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Coherence devices

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Connectives
Pronoun antecedent
Repetition of a key word
Direct reference

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Figurative language

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Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification

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Classical essay form

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Introduction
Narration
Thesis
Confirmation
Refutation
Conclusion

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