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Allusion

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A brief reference to a real or fictitious person, place, object, or event

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Anstract word

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Refers to an idea, quality, attitude, or state that we cant precieve with our senses

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Analysis

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Method of development in which a subject is seperated into its elements or parts and then reassembled into a new whole

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Anecdote

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A brief narrative that recounts an episode frim a person’s experience

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Argument

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Appeals to readers’ reason and emtiond in order to win

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Assertion

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Central idea of an argument

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Audience

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Particular work for who is intended

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Cause-and-effect analysis

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Occurences are divided into their elements to find out what made an event happen

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Chronological order

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Events are arranged as they occured over time

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Classification

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Members of a group are sorted into classes or subgroups according to shared characteristics

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Cliché

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An experession that has become tired from overuse and that therefore deadens rather than enlivens writing

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Climactic order

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Pattern of organization; arranged in order of increasing importance

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Coherenece

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Clear; logical connections among all the parts

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Colloquial language

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Language of the conversation

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Comparison and contrast

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Similarities and differences between subjects are examined

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Concrete words

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An object, person, place, or state that we can percieve with our senes

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Connotation

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Beyond literal meaning

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Denotation

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Definition

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Critical reading

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To uncover both its substance and the wroters interperation of the substance

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Deductive reasoning

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Moves from the general to the specific

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Definition

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Explanation of the meaning of the word

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Description

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Conveys the perceptions of the senses

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Diction

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Choice of words you make yo achieve a purpose and make meaning clear

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Slang

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Short-lived and that may not be understood by all readers

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Emotional appeal (Pathos)

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Appeal to the emotion

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Ethical appeal (Ethos)

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Appeal to their credibility

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Evidence

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Details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert opinion that support any general statement or claim

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Example

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Instamce or representation of a general, quality, or abstract concept

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Exposition

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Form of writing that explains or informa

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Fallacies

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Flaws in reasoning that weaken or invalidates an argument

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Fogures of speech

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Expressions that imply meanings beyond or different from literal meanings

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Freewriting

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A technique for discovering; for a fixed amount of time without stopping to reread or edit

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Generalization

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Derived from knowledge of some or all its members

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Hyperbole

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Deliberate overstatment or exaggeration

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Image

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A verbal representation of semsory experience

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Inductive reasoning

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The method of reasoning that moves from the particular to general

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Irony

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Use of suggest meaning different from their literal meaning. Can be wiitty, teasing, biting, or cruel

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things by saying that one is the other

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Narration

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The form of writting that tells a story, relating a sequence of events

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Parallelism

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The use of similar grammical forms for ideas of equal importance

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Personification

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A figure of speech that gives human qualities to things or abstractions

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Point of view

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The position of the writer in relation to the subject

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Premise

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The generalization or assumption on which an agrument is based

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Process analysis

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The method of development in which a sequence of actions with specified result is divided into its component steps

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Propositin

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A debatable claim about a subject; the central idea of

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Purpose

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The reason for writing, the goal the writer wants to achieve

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Rational appeal

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In argumentative and persuassive wroting, the appeal to readers’ rational faculaties

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Repetition and restatment

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The careful use of the same words or close parallels to clarify meaning and tie sentences together

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Rhhetoric

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The art if using words effectivily to communicate with an auidience, including the art of persuasion

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Satire

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The combination of wot and criticism to mock or condemn human foolishness or evil

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Similie

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A fogure of speech that equates two unlike or as

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Spatial organization

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A pattern of organization that views an object, scene, or person by paralleling the way we normally see things

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Style

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The WAY something is said, as opposed to WHAT is said

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Syllogism

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The basic form of deductive reasoning, in which conclusion derives necessarily from proven or accepted premises

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Symbol

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A person, place, or thing that represents an abstract quality or concept

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Thesis

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The main idea of a piece of writing

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Tone

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The attittude toawrd tbe subject

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Transitions

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Links between sentences and paragrapghs that relates ideas

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Unity

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The quality of effecitive wroting that occurs when all the oarts relate to the main idea

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