Writing Terms 2 Flashcards
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Narration
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- Telling a story. Does not stand on its own as a rhetorical strategy.
- Used conjunction with analysis/example or illustration
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Imagery
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Language that evokes one or all of the five sense: seeing, hearing, tastings smelling, touching
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Description
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- Involves an objective, detailed account
- Used in conjunction with analysis
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Comparison
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- Discussion of similarities/differences between two or more objects/ideas.
- Goal is for evaluation
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Argumentation
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-Coherent development of writer’s own argument (articulates/develops own opinion)
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Illustration and Example
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- Used in conjunction with analysis or argumentation
- Illustrations support argument, justify analysis
- Examples are specific cases/stories that make general statement more believable
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Analysis
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- Involves dividing a topic, problem, object of study into component parts to see how it functions
- Explains how parts fit together and why they function
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Evaluation
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Ability to judge merit of one’s claims/assumptions and weight of evidence in their favor
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Biography/Autobiography
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- Narrative focusing on life of particular individual/group
- Writer may use specific this narrative mode
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Irony
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- Specific tones/attitudes that a writer may use in an essay
- Irony: Situation misinterpreted/opposite consequence, use of language to state opposite to make point
- Sarcasm: Verbal irony
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Humor
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-Verbal play/comic circumstances to temper serious subject/establish informal tone
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Satire
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- Attack on human behavior/event for purpose of ridicule
- Juvenalian: Negative and bitter
- Horatian: Playful and humorous
