vocab 4 Flashcards

1
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characterized by feigned or deliberately artificial seriousness

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mock serious

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2
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the emotional tone

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mood

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3
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a phrase, idea, or event that repeats throughout an essay…

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motif

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4
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of or relating to facts and reality

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objective

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5
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the use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning

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onomatopoeia

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6
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a statement that seems self- contradictory but nevertheless true

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paradox

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7
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contextual, grammatical presentation of two ideas of equal rank

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parallelism

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8
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a version of text put into simpler, everyday language

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paraphrase

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9
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appealing to the audience’s emotions, usually by creating a sense of sorrow

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pathos

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10
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narrowly academic instead of broad and humane

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pedantic

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11
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objects and animals are given human characteristics

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personification

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12
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the relation in which a narrorator speaks

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point of view

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13
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using multiple repititions of the same conjunction

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polysyndeton

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14
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the depiction of people and things without exageration

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realism

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15
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the part of discourse wherein opposing arguments are anticipated and answered

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rebuttal

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16
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repitition of an idea using different words

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reiteration

17
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reuse of the same words to empasize a point

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repetition

18
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the language of a work and its style

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rhetoric

19
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a general term for identifying discourse according to its chief purpose

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rhetorical mode

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