Test 1- Diction Flashcards
Larger occasion
Environment of ideas and issues that swirl around a broad issue. The bigger picture
Immediate occasion
Event or situation that catches a readers attention and triggers a response
Ethos
Speakers credibility and trustworthiness
Shared values between speaker and audience
Pathos
Appeal to audiences emotion
Logos
Appeal to reason or logic with rational ideas
Details, facts, etc
In artistic logo appeals
Facts clues expert testimony case study
Artisitic appeals
Reason and common sense
Archaism
Old fashioned word or expression that is no longer used commonly
Colloquialism
Words and phrases in a casual conversation particular to a geographic region
Euphemism
Substitution for a more polite word
Jargon
Specialized language of a professional occupational or other group
Neologism
Recently invented phrase or word
First person pov
I
Collective if we or us
Third person omniscient
Narrator knows thoughts and feelings of characters in story
Third person limited omniscient
Narrator tell story from view point of one character