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Vocab For Final Flashcards

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Monosyllabic

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One syllable words, less effective,

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Diction

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Word choice or General character of the language used by the author

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Denotation

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The strict meaning in the dictionary

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Meliorative

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Positive influence or connection

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Pejorative

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Negative influence or connection

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Cheap vs inexpensive

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Both have same meaning but different meanings in society and different impacts

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Pedestrian

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Commonplace, dull, laments terms

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Vulgarity

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Cuss words, bad language, do not use

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Slang

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Uses vernacular, made up words

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Vernacular

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Native dialect

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Colloquial

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Related to usual or informal

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Jargon

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Language specific to a field or position

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Anecdote

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A short account do an interesting or humorous story

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Ethos

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Appeal based on character of speaker, ethics

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Logos

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Appeal based on logic and reason, logical

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Pathos

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Appeal based on emotion pathological

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Anaphora

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The reparation of a word in a clause or sentence

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Epistrophe

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The repitstion of a word at the end of a sentence

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Asyndeton

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The omission of a conjunction

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Antithesis

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a person or thing with the direct opposite

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is made into a whole

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Enumeration

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Mention one by one, no space to enumerate

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Parallelism

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The state of being parallel or corresponding in some way

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics and attributes to an inanimate object

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Metaphor

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Compares to things without like or as

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Simile

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Compares two things using like or as

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Metonymy

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The substitution of a name for one of its attributes

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Climax

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The most intense, exciting or important part if something

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polysyndenton

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Polysyndeton is the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton.
Example:
They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked.

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Toulmin method of argument

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Claim- the conclusion of an argument
Grounds- facts and data used to prove and validate a claim
Warrant- the reasoning why the grounds are being made
Backing support- additional support, qualifiers for the warren
Rebuttal- exceptions or limitations

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Syllogism

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Major premise A=B , a general principle or minor claim, C=A, verify able by evidence claim, C=B conclusion

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Enthymene

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Missing the minor claim, similar to fallacies, A=c or A=z

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