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| 14694115805 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event Function > allows writer of all genres to simplify complex ideas, and emotions of text | 0 | |
| 14694115806 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Function - draws emphasis to a particular point, sentence, or nam. Stands out, flows, fluency | 1 | |
| 14694115807 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute Function= distorts truth, persuasion | 2 | |
| 14694115808 | Ethos | credibility | 3 | |
| 14694115809 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 4 | |
| 14694115810 | Pathos | Appeal to feelings | 5 | |
| 14694115811 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. Function + emphasizes a point, gets audience thinking | 6 | |
| 14694115812 | rhetorical shift | a change from one tone, attitude, etc . . . Look for key words like but, however, even though, although, yet, etc. Function + takes audience focus away from one topic | 7 | |
| 14694115813 | rhetorical devices vs rhetorical strategies | Rhetorical device- uses language to persuade and evoke different emotions Strategies+ plan of action to achieve overall aim Difference+ stratagem is the plan, devices are the devices used in the plan. | 8 | |
| 14694115814 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 9 | |
| 14694115815 | Description | Capture with words the essence of a scene, person, or thing. | 10 | |
| 14694115816 | Process Analysis | A method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something. | 11 | |
| 14694115817 | Illustration/Exemplification | Gives examples clarifying what you are trying to say. Embodies abstract ideas or sharpening generalizations | 12 | |
| 14694115818 | definition | Spells out exactly what a word or phrase means | 13 | |
| 14694115819 | Compare / contrast | finding similarities and differences between 2 things | 14 | |
| 14694115820 | Division / classification | dividing a subject into categories and analyzing the characteristics of each category | 15 | |
| 14694115821 | Casual analysis | focuses specifically on explanations that show a connection between a situation and its cause or effect | 16 | |
| 14694115822 | Argument and Persuasion | Development of the writers own argument | 17 | |
| 14733978634 | Analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it Function: explains m abstract idea by comparing it to something familiar | 18 | |
| 14733978635 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines Function: pathos, encourage, motivate | 19 | |
| 14733978636 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences Function: emphasizes a concept or idea | 20 | |
| 15275812087 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 21 | |
| 15275817485 | Anastrohpe | changing the order of sentence structure. | 22 | |
| 15275834544 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 23 | |
| 15275839092 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | 24 | |
| 15275850644 | Antithesis | two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 25 | |
| 15275855884 | Aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 26 | |
| 15275862977 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 27 | |
| 15275867360 | Argument for Ignorance | Arguing that it is better to be ignorant than to know the truth. says something is true because it is not yet proven false. | 28 | |
| 15275877096 | asyndenton | conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose | 29 | |
| 15275880769 | Chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | 30 | |
| 15275890653 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 31 | |
| 15275897024 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 32 |
