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vocabulary for English 11
Rhetoric vocabulary
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English
11th Grade
01/18/2012

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Rhetoric
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The method to process all messages
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persona
Definition
Aspects of speaker- attitude or character traits- that the speaker adopts for particular purpose
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audience
Definition
the people "listening" to the writer's words
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Context
Definition
the convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or speech is situated
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Form
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A piece of writing classified by type- letter, narrative, eulogy speech, sermon, poem, essay or editorial
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Thesis
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the central idea in a work of writing to which everything else in the work refers
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Allusion
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A reference to a person, place, or thing believed to be common knowledge
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Analogy
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an extended comparison based on the like features of two unlike things; one familiar or easily understood, the other unfamiliar, abstract, or complex
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Juxtaposition
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A writing technique that places elements- either similar or contrasting- side by side, in order to illuminate the subject
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parallelism
Definition
Keeping ideas of equal importance in simmilar grammatical form
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repetition
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in the text, multiple use of a sound, word, phrase, or clause, to emphasize meaning and/or achive effect.
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purpose
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A writes reason for trying to convey a particular idea about a particular subject to a particular audience
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Logos
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Appeal to logic
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pathos
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Appeal to Emotion
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Ethos
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the writters credibility
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alliteration
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the repetition of consonant sound in two words or more appearing close together
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Diction
Definition
the choice of words
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Denotation
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is a word's dictionary defenition
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Connotation
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is the word implied or inferred meaning, resonant with association, carrying emotional weight
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metaphor
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which declares one thing to be another
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simile
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which says something is like or as another thing
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imagery
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a word or word sequence that evokes a sensory experience, whether literal or figurative, an image appeals to the readers memory of having seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted a specific thing
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