Part 1 Flashcards
The goal of a writer or speaker hopes to achieve with the text
Aim
Reading to experience the world of the text
Aesthetic Reading
An extended metaphor
Allegory
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words
Alliteration
The repetition of the last words of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
Anadiplosis
A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audiences attention or to support a generalization or claim
Anecdote
Word Choice characterized by simple, often one- or two-syllable, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs
Anglo-Saxon Diction
The relationship expressed by “if…then” reasoning
Antecedent-consequence relationship
A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately and defines or amplifies it’s meaning
Appositive
The omission of conjunctions between related clauses
Asyndeton
One of the 4 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
Basic Topic
One of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition- invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery
Canon
The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated
Context
Heightening a message by emphasizing pitch, volume, and pause and by using gestures and movements
Declaiming
Reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle
Deductive Reasoning
The describable patterns of language- grammar and vocabulary- used by a particular cultural or ethnic population
Dialect
Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/ informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/ Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/ connotative value
Diction
The double (or multiple) meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous
Double entendre
A type of poem, popular primarily in the nineteenth century, in which the speaker is delivering a monologue to an assumed group of listeners
Dramatic monologue
The emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader or listener
Effect
Reading to garner information from a text
Efferent reading
Logical reasoning with one premise left
unstated
Enthymeme
The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator
Ethos
The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion
Evidence
An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in one or two ways, they are probably similar in other ways as well
Extended analogy
A narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance
Fable
A piece of writing classified by type
Genre
A systematic strategy or method for solving problems
Heuristic
An exaggeration for effect
Hyperbole
A passage of text that evokes sensation or emotional intensity
Image
Reasoning that begins by citing a number of specific instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle
Inductive reasoning
The specialized vocabulary of a particular group
Jargon
A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement
Loose sentence
An implied comparison that does not use the word like or as
Metaphor
The feeling that a text is intended to produce in the audience
Mood
A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning
Onomatopoeia
A set if similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph
Parallelism
A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/ or complement
Periodic sentence
Begging of the question;. Disagreeing with premises or reasoning
Petitio principi
Louise Rosenblatt’s term for the interpretive moment when reader and text connect
Poem
The art of analyzing choices involving language that a writer, speaker, or reader might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective
Rhetoric
A question posed by the speaker or writer not to seek an answer but instead to affirm or deny a point simply by asking a question about it
Rhetorical Question
An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences
Scheme
Dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself or herself
Soliloquy
Logical reasoning from inarguable premises
Syllogism
The order of words in a sentence
Syntax
A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed
Tautology
An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas
Trope
The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience
Verisimilitude
The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writers or speakers persona
Voice
