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Anaphora

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The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

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Allusion

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A reference in a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge

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Antimetabole

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The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

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Antithesis

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The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure

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Apology

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An elaborate statement justifying some controversial, even contentious position

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Apostrophe

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Type of soliloquy where nature is address as though human

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Appeal to authority

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In a text, the reference to words, action, or beliefs of a person in authority as a means of supporting claim, generalization, or conclusion

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Argument

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A carefully constructed, well-supported representation of how a writer sees an issue, problem, or subject

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in the stresses syllables of two or more adjacent words

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Begging of the question

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The situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept

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Causal relationship

Cause-and-effect relationship

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The relationship expressing “if X is the cause, then Y is the effect,” or, “ If Y is the effect then X caused it”

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Claim

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The ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point that a syllogism or Enthymeme expresses. The point, backed up by support, of an argument.

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Complex sentence

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A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

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Compound sentence

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A sentence with two or more independent clauses

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Conflict

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The struggle of characters with themselves, with others, or with the world around them

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Connotation

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The implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed “dictionary meaning”

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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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Data

As evidence

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Facts, statistics, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion.

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Denotation

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The dictionary definition of a word, in contrast to its connotation, or implied meaning

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Ellipsis

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The omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage

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Epistrophe

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The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses

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Epithet

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A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a persons name

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Euphemism

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An indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way as to lessen its impact

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Exordium

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In ancient roman ocatory, the introduction of a speech, meant to draw the audience into the speech

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Figurative Language

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Language dominated by the use of schemes and tropes

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Generalization

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A point that a speaker or writer generates in the basis of considering a number of particular examples

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House analogy

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In ancient roman oratory, the method that speakers used to memorize their speeches, connecting the indri diction to the porch of a house, the narration and partition to the front foyer, the confirmation and refutation to rooms connected to the foyer, and the conclusion to the back door

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Imagery

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Language that provokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader

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Implied metaphor

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A metaphor embedded in a sentence rather than expresses directly as a sentence.

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Inference

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A conclusion that a reader or listener reaches by means if his or her own thinking rather than by direct statement in a text

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Intention

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

Also called aim and purpose

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Irony

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Writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken

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Jargon

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The specialized vocabulary of a particular group

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Latinate diction

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Vocabulary characterized by the choice of elaborate, often complicated words derived from Latin roots

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Litotes

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Understatement

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Logos

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The appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas

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Metonymy

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An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations

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Mnemonic device

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A systematic aid to memory

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Oxymoron

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Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings

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Paradox

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A statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless

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Parenthesis

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An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence

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Pathos

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The appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience

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Pentad

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Kenneth burkes system for analyzing motives and actions in communication. The five points of the pentad are act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose.

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Periphrasis

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The substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality characteristic

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Peroration

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In ancient roman oratory, the part of the speech in which the speaker would draw together the entire argument and include material designed to compel the audience to think or act in a way consonant with the central argument.

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Persona

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The character that a writer or speaker conveys to the audience; the plural is personae

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Personification

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The giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects

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Recursive

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Referring to the moving back and forth from invention to revision in the process of writing

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Refutation

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In ancient roman oratory, the part of speech on which the speaker would anticipate objections to the points being raised and counter them

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Rhetoric

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The art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective; the specific features of texts, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners in a situation

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Simile

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A type of comparison that used the word like or as

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Stance

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A writers or speakers apparent attitude toward the audience

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Style

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The choices that writers or speakers make in language for effect

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Synecdoche

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A part of something used to refer to the whole

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Zeugma

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A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning

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