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| 4798225649 | Appeals (Ethical, Emotional, Logical) "Rhetorical Triangle" | Ethical (Ethos) = Moral character; A means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. Emotional (Pathos) = Emotion; A quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy, and sorrow. Logical (Logos) = Reason or logic; A statement, sentence, or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic; Provide concrete evidence to support your claims. | 0 | |
| 4798230413 | Argument | A brief summary; An opening to a novel which presents presents the main theme of the work; Presenting evidence. | 1 | |
| 4798245439 | Defend, Challenge, Qualify | Defend = Support = Agree Challenge = Argue = Disagree Qualify = Defending and Challenging | 2 | |
| 4798283400 | Discourse | A costume or set of instructions that make us recognizable; A combination of acts. Primary Discourse = Home and Families Secondary Discourse = Social institutions Secondary Dominant Discourse = Allow for acquisition of social good and status points Secondary Nondominant Discourse = Opposite of Dominant | 3 | |
| 4798294312 | Rhetoric | The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. | 4 | |
| 4798323004 | Rhetorical Devices | A technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with a goal of persuading him or her towards considering a topic from a different perspective, using sentences designed to encourage or provoke a rational argument from an emotional display of a given perspective or action; Alliteration, allusion, foreshadowing, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, etc. | 5 | |
| 4798333902 | Rhetorical Modes | A common pattern of argument; Give you ready-made approaches to writing essays. Types = Example/Illustration, Classification, Comparison and Contrast, and Analogy | 6 | |
| 4798808481 | Semantics | The meaning of the vocabulary in a sentence. Correct semantics may not have perfect syntax. | 7 | |
| 4801736421 | Style | The literary element the describes the ways that the author uses words; The author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. | 8 | |
| 4798815847 | Thesis | Clearly communicate, in one or two sentences, the main idea of what you want your audience to know. All theses should be debatable, take a clear position on the prompt, and be specific as possible. A debatable thesis shows a side that is obviously one of two or more sides. A clear position for your thesis shows you are 100% agreeing with one side. A specific thesis gets right into the in-depth details that will be discussed in the essay and leaves no room for wondering. | 9 | |
| 4801742492 | Connotation | The feelings or emotions attached to a word; Negative and positive connotation are determined on the usage of a word in a sentence. | 10 | |
| 4801744348 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word | 11 | |
| 4801749967 | Diction | How an author chooses words to best communicate their point of view; What word is best suited for the sentence?; The choice of one word over another. Formal Diction = Creates elevated tone; Fancy. Informal Diction = Relaxed, conversational language. Strong Diction = Sophisticated words. Weak Diction = Overused, boring words. | 12 | |
| 4801771954 | Ellipsis | "Dot dot dot" (...) 1. Could mean that the writer has paused their thought process. 2. Could mean that words have been omitted from a piece of text. Formatting Rules: Three dots; Space between, before, and after dots; Stays on one line; Breaks up a long writing to simpler sentences; Four dots if the quote ends in a period; Ending with a terminal exclamation (!, ?, .), the ellipsis is put before the punctuation; Cannot cut out important words that show what the sentence means; May show that time has passed; May show an unfinished list; Maybe ran out of dialogue. | 13 | |
| 4801796754 | Equivocation | A fallacy depending on the double meaning of a word; An argument that uses one word to mean two different things; Mistakenly equating two different meanings of one word. | 14 | |
| 4801806559 | Euphemism | A generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant. | 15 | |
| 4801841915 | Hyperbole | Over-exaggeration; A figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. | 16 | |
| 4801849145 | Juxtaposition | A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts; Used as a persuasive strategy to articulate meaning; The matching of opposites alters or adds to the original meaning of those concepts or reveals a surprising relationship. | 17 | |
| 4801874725 | Malapropism | Using a wrong word in place of a similar sounding word. | 18 | |
| 4801886460 | Mood | Can be referred to as atmosphere because it creates an emotional setting enveloping the reader; Provides a feeling for the narrative; Created during setting, tone, voice, theme, and diction develop mood; The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader. | 19 | |
| 4801911245 | Non Sequitur And Broken Logic | Does not follow logic or reason; Changing the order of information may change conclusions; Logical fallacy. | 20 | |
| 4801924658 | Pedantic | Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make arrogant and ostentatious show of learning; Being showy of one's knowledge, often boring in manner. | 21 | |
| 4801933581 | Platitude | Words or phrases that are drearily commonplace and predictable that lack power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition, that nevertheless are stated as though they were original or significant; Commonly in advertisements; Shows that you are like everybody else | 22 | |
| 4801946300 | Polemic | A controversy, debate or dispute, or a person who is inclined to argue; A written attack on a political decision is an example; A person who argues about science or religion or about how science and religion interest is an example; A strong attack on someone else's beliefs; Polemics is the art of debate | 23 | |
| 4801961933 | Sarcasm And Verbal Irony | Saying the opposite of what you mean is verbal irony; Seeking to be pointed and mean with the opposite that you mean is sarcasm. | 24 | |
| 4798808480 | Syntax | Grammar; The rules for what kinds of words, parts of a language, or vocabulary you can put in what order. What is right for one language may not be for another. | 25 | |
| 4801973271 | Tone | The emotional feel of a piece of writing; Depends on what is happening in the story; Connected to what the narrator is feeling; Can change throughout the story | 26 | |
| 4801986874 | Transition | Make clear what one thing has to do with another; Helps with flow; Can show contrast, similarity, or sequence. 1. Those that transition through words; Establishing a connection between two things in writing. 2. Those that transition through ideas; Make a reference to draw a connection. | 27 | |
| 4802002158 | Understatement | A form of speech or disclosure which contains an expression of less strength than what would be expected; Lessens the importance of what is meant | 28 | |
| 4802008846 | Voice | An individual writing style of an author, a combination of idiotypical usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text. Active v. Passive Active = When the verb of a sentence is in the active voice, the subject doing the acting acts in relation to the object. Passive = A verb is in the passive voice when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb | 29 | |
| 4802035557 | Allegory | A story with two levels of meaning; There's the surface of the story, which is the characters and plot; Then there's the symbolic level, or the deeper meaning that all the stuff in the story represents. | 30 | |
| 4802035558 | Alliteration | A string of words that begin with the same letter or sound. | 31 | |
| 4802035559 | Allusion | A figure of speech that makes an indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance; It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. | 32 | |
| 4802036415 | Analogy | A literary device that creates a relationship based on parallels or connections between two ideas; By establishing this relationship, the new idea is introduced through a familiar comparison, thus making the new concept easier to grasp; In-depth comparisons that indicate more of a direct relationship between two things. | 33 | |
| 4802036416 | Anecdote | A short story or narrative that is within an argument and is used to support an argument; Gives the ability to connect with the reader; A story within a story | 34 | |
| 4802036417 | Irony | An expression of meaning by using words that mean another thing; A figure of speech in words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words; It may also be a situation that may end up incite a different way than what is generally anticipated. Situational v. Dramatic v. Verbal: Situational = What happens is that opposite of what is anticipated. Dramatic = The audience knows something that the actors don't; Not the same as foreshadowing; The audience doesn't know anything. Verbal = A writer or speaker says the opposite of what they actually mean to say. | 35 | |
| 4802037370 | Metaphor | A figure of speech; A comparison that is definite, not a similarity, but is not actually literal or direct. | 36 | |
| 4802037371 | Motif | Any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story; Through its reputation, a motif can help produce other narrative, or literary, aspects such as theme or mood. | 37 | |
| 4802037372 | Oxymoron | Two things that are opposite are put together to have one meaning of it's own for a phrase. | 38 | |
| 4802037373 | Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself or two ideas that cannot both be true; An oxymoron is a simple paradox; A situational paradox is one that just doesn't seem like it could be true; Characters can show paradoxes; Paradoxes introduce conflict, add depth to a story, can be clever or comical, can help explain a confusing situation, create excitement, add confusion, and make readers think. | 39 | |
| 4802038646 | Parallel Syntax (Parallelism) | The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. | 40 | |
| 4802038647 | Parody | A work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself or the subject of the work; Often mock serious works of literature, music, artwork or film--for satirical or humorous purposes. | 41 | |
| 4802038648 | Pun | A play on words in which a humorous effect if produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings; Humorous effects created by puns depend upon the ambiguities words entail. | 42 | |
| 4802038649 | Satire | A work that ridicules its subject, through the use of specific techniques; Although satire is usually witty, and often very funny, the purpose of satire is not 'just' humor but criticism of an individual or a group. Four Techniques: 1. Exaggeration = To represent something beyond normal bounds so that it becomes ridiculous and its faults can be seen. 2. Incongruity = To present things that are out of place or are absurd in relation to their surroundings. 3. Reversal = To present the opposite of the normal order. 4. Parody = To imitate the techniques/style of some person, place, or thing in order to ridicule the original; The reader must know the original text that is being ridiculed. | 43 | |
| 4802224488 | Simile | A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things; A simile draws resemblance with the help of the words "like" or "as"; It is a direct comparison. | 44 |
