Writing Techniques Flashcards

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Word choice

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Diction

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The grammatical structure of a sentence

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Syntax

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A group of related words that lacks a subject and or predict

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Phrase

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Group of related words that has a subject me predict (may or may not be able to stand alone)

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Clause

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A group of words that contains a a subject and predict and can stand on it own

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Independent clause

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Had subject and predict but cannot stand on its own

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Subordinate/ dependent clause

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A statement

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Declarative sentence

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A command

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Imperative sentence

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A sentence that communicates strong emotion or surprise

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Exclamatory sentence

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A sentence that asks a question

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Interrogative

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A sentence that may have a simple subject or a compound subject, it also may have a predict or a compound predict (only one independent clause)

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Simple sentence

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Two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction punctuation or both

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Compound sentence

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One independent and one or more dependent clauses

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Complex sentence

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Two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent

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Compound/complex sentence

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A sentence in which details are added after the basic statement

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Strung-along

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A sentence in which details are infused between the subject and the predict or precede the subject and the predict

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Periodic sentence

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Non-standard arrangement of a sentence

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Inverted sentence

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Diction syntax and rhetorical devices combine to create a specific written work

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Tone

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Everyday writing and speaking; slang

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Informal tone

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Standard vocab; conventional sentence structure

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Semi-formal tone

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The use of ridicule, sarcasm irony humor ect to expose, attack or derive the vices, follies or shortcomings of humanity

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Satire (I think we already had this one but it got mixed in with my new ones when I was typing them out)

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Polysyllabic words, professional jargon, complete syntax

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Formal tone

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The atmosphere that is created by text

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Mood

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consider strategies of chronological, spatial, and most to least important to organize writing

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Methods of organization

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First person point of view ā€œIā€

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Intamate view into narrator, we must be skeptical

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We see what is happening but only know what a character does, not what they are thinking

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Third person objective

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The narrator reports on the actions and thoughts of one, perhaps two, main characters

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Third person limited

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All-knowing narrator

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Third person omniscient

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Reader enters mind of the character and is privy to the cohesive patterns of thought

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Interior monologue

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The reader is placed inside the mind of a character and is privy to fragmented, randomly or spontaneous thoughts

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Stream of consciousness

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How a rhetor uses the many resources of language such as metaphors allusions grammar act to create meaning purpose and tone

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Rhetorical techniques