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2860810740rhetorical stylethe art of study of using language effectively and persuasively and to influence/please others0
2860810741rhetorical trianglethe writer, audience, and context which make the strongest points within your argument1
2860810742syntaxthe arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language.2
2860810743dictionis a style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or writer3
2860810744argumentis the main statement of the poem, essay, short story, or a novel that usually appears as an introduction or a point on which it will develop its writing in order to convince its readers.4
2860810745devices of languagea literary on linguistic technique that produces a specific effect.5
2860810746toneis the attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is generally conveyed through words on viewpoint.6
2860810747imageryvisually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.7
2860810748figures of speechany expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, synecdoche, in which words aren't used in a literally sense to create a special effect.8
2860810749metaphora figure of speech in which two things have an implied comparison that are poles apart from each other but have some common characteristics between them. A resemblance between two contradictory objects.9
2860810750similea figure of speech that makes a comparison, show similarities between different things. It makes a direct comparison using 'like' or 'as'10
2860810751tropea figure of speech through which speakers or writers intend to express meanings of words differently than their literal meanings. It is a metaphorical/figurative use of words in which writers switch to non literal meaning11
2860810752metonymya figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept to that of another or which it is part12
2860810753synecdochea figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, or the whole for a part13
2860810754the special for the general of the general for the special as14
2860810755phrasinga group of words that the mind momentarily focuses on as powerful and precedes with pauses15
2860810756balanced sentencea sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure16
2860810757subordinationadding a subordinating conjunction to a phrase to make it depend on the other parts of the sentence.17
2860810758parallelismthe use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same, or are similar in their construction , sound, meter, or other18
2860810759repetitiona literary device that reuses the same words or ideas to make an idea clearer. It could be a word , phrase, full sentence or poetical line.19
2860810760descriptionwriting that appeals to the 5 sense, maybe informative, impressionistic. organizational,or contain figurative language20
2860810761persuasiona form of writing in which the writer appeals to reason, values, beliefs, and emotions to convince a reader or listener to think or act in a particular way21
2860810762expositionwriting that explains or informs that is used mostly in nonfiction especially articles, essays, and various books,22
2860810763narrationwriting that tells a story or retells a sequence or events within a particular time frame and needs a point of view23
2860810764amplificationa practice where the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understand ability24
2860810765litotesunderstatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by a negative of its contrary25
2860810766tricolona term for a series of three parallel worlds, phrases, clauses26

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