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| 14882071628 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing | 0 | |
| 14882075662 | exigence | What has compelled the author to write/speak (motivation for piece) | 1 | |
| 14882083748 | Tone | the perspective, approach, or attitude that the author adopts in their writing. Can portray a variety of emotions from solemn, grave, witty, crtical, wry or humerous. | 2 | |
| 14882106477 | purpose | the writer's reason(s) for writing the piece (Ie: to persuade, to inform) | 3 | |
| 14882115455 | assertion | a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief. Can help develop the purpose | 4 | |
| 14882122997 | rhetorical question | when a writer asks a question in their writing. Invites the reader to engage, ponder, and create a response. The writer doesn't answer this question diretly so that their overall agrument will encourage the reader to anser the rhetorical question in a spcific way. | 5 | |
| 14882143226 | Diction | a writer's choice of words | 6 | |
| 14882146536 | Syntax | the order in which the writer places those words to form prases and sentences. | 7 | |
| 14882157559 | Repetition | intentially repeating words/phrases to focus the reader's attention on the word's signifigance. | 8 | |
| 14882164672 | parellel structure | the intetional repeting of a syntactic structure for the purpose of emphasis. | 9 | |
| 14882180105 | Anaphora | the repeated structure is at the beginning (type of parellel structure) ex: In the name of g-d, do your duty. In the name of g-d free tom robinsion. | 10 | |
| 14882201692 | Epistrophe | this places the parellell structure near the end of the sentence. ex: from that point on, I knew I would never trust her, love her, or visit her. (Verb pronoun, verb pronoun, verb pronoun) | 11 | |
| 14882224565 | loose sentence | protracted, rambling, praising but grametically correct | 12 | |
| 14882231953 | periodic sentence | suspensful and antiipating sentence-long leaves main clause at end for suspsence | 13 | |
| 14882242049 | abbreviated sentence | abrupt, angry or overt sentence (ex: I was furious) | 14 | |
| 14882245079 | fragmented sentence | simaler to abbreviated but a sentence that is even more abrupt (not a complete sentence) | 15 | |
| 14901587626 | sentence length variation | intentionally mixing the lengths of your sentences to avoid sounding monotonous | 16 | |
| 14901592089 | Juxtaposition | placing two opposing images, tones, sentence length, etc. Adjacent to eachother to increse the effect of each in comparison to the other | 17 | |
| 14901614656 | form | how the writing appears/is places on the place. (includes punctuation) | 18 | |
| 14926969332 | anecdote | a short interesing, (possibly amusing) story, that can be personal, typically about a real person or incident. Anecdotes are designed to add details, evidence, or interest. | 19 | |
| 14927016724 | Pathos | When the writing appeals to the reader with emotion. Many choose emotional diction. | 20 | |
| 14927046007 | Ehthos (appeal) | When the writer appeals to the reader by establishing their own credibiltiy in writing. They anknowledge his expereince and expertise with the subject. | 21 | |
| 14963742718 | Logos | Greek word for logic. It represents the facts, research, data that helps to prove an agrument. | 22 | |
| 14963768882 | Colloquialism | language that is not typically used on formal writing but is more common in ordinary or familliar conversation. (Can be specific to age group or geo location) Can make writing informal. | 23 | |
| 14963827661 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. (basically sugar coating) | 24 | |
| 14963852103 | Allusion | A reference in which an idea is compared to a famous place, person, work of art, work of literature, etc. | 25 | |
| 14963877162 | Hyphora | The rhetorical question's cousin. When a writer asks, and answers, a question in his writing, (much more direct) strategy also invites the reader to engage, but it is for more direct in telling a reader how he should feel about a particular issue. | 26 |
