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| 15016148192 | rhetoric | 1. Language that is used to persuade 2. The art of discipline that deals with the use of discourse, either spoke or written, to inform, persuade, or motivate an attitude | 0 | |
| 15016148193 | assertion/claim | 1. The act of asserting 2. Something declared or stated, often with no support or attempt at proof | 1 | |
| 15016148194 | argument | A statement that consists of at least one main interpretive assertion/claim that is supported by evidence | 2 | |
| 15016148195 | diction | word choice | 3 | |
| 15016148196 | syntax | Sentence structure | 4 | |
| 15016148197 | simple sentence | a sentence that contains a subject, a verb, and a completed thought | 5 | |
| 15016148198 | allusion | A short informal reference to a famous person or event (The best sources are literature history, Greek myth, and the Bible) this is a rhetorical technique | 6 | |
| 15016148199 | ebb | A period of decline or diminution | 7 | |
| 15016148200 | emphatic | forceful and definite in expression or action | 8 | |
| 15016148201 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, sentences, phrases or paragraph. This is a rhetorical technique | 9 | |
| 15016148202 | purpose of text | Why has the piece been written? What messages does it send? What themes does it have? | 10 | |
| 15016148203 | Classical Rhetorical Theory | Aristotle said if you write anything there are three things that will influence the text. 1. Speaker- author, composer, the person doing the writing 2. Audience- a different audience requires different textual features 3. Subject- the thing you are writing about | 11 |
