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| The art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes purposeful meaningful and effective |
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| Formal pattern for organizing a text (includes description, narration, exposition, and argumentation) |
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| A question posed by the speaker or writer not to seek an answer but to instead affirm or deny a point simply by asking about it |
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| A diagram showing the relations of the writer/speaker, reader/listener, and text in a rhetorical situation |
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The appeal of a text using the credibility and character of a speaker, writer, or narrator
-offers evidence that he is credible
-knows important info about topic
-best interest of reader/listener in mind |
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| Appeal of a text to the emotions & interests of the audience so they will be sympathetically inclined to accept and buy into the argument |
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| Offers clear, reasoned, central ideas and develops them with appropriate evidence to appeal to an audiences sense of logic |
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| The character that a writer/speaker conveys to the audience |
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A writer/speaker's word choice
-Denotative/connotative
-Formal/informal
-Concrete/abstract |
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| Dictionary definition of a word |
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| Implied meaning of a word, loaded word |
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| Any artful variation from the typical arrangement of words or sentences |
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| Order of words in a sentence |
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| A sentence with modifying elements before the verb |
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| Scheme involving balance and that emphasizes an idea or argument |
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| In a text, the use more than once of a sound, word, phrase, or clause to emphasize meaning or achieve effect (emotional/psychological impact) on a reader/listener |
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| Repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
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| Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause |
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| Repetition of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds a the beginning/in the middle of two or more adjacent words |
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| A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words |
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| A part of something that is used to refer to the whole |
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| An entity is referred to by one of its attributes or something closely associated with it |
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| A contrast of discrepancy between appearance and reality |
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| Used for descriptive effect in order to convey ideas or emotions. Figurative expressions are not literally true but express some truth beyond the literal level |
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| Figure of speech using like, as, or resembles to compare seemingly unlike things |
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| Figure of speech that compares or equates two seemingly unlike things to help readers perceive the first thing more vividly |
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| Figure of speech in which an animal, object, idea, or force of nature is given human characteristics |
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| Figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined |
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