5025896897 | Rhetorical triangle | speaker, audience, subject | 0 | |
5025896898 | rhetoric | persuasive speaking or writing (like a commercial or essay or article) | 1 | |
5025896899 | ethos | appeal to authority | 2 | |
5025896900 | pathos | appeal to emotions | 3 | |
5025968489 | logos | appeal to logic | 4 | |
5025968490 | audience | people who experience media | 5 | |
5025968491 | connotation | feeling that a word invokes to its literal meaning (like how calling someone a chicken is bad) | 6 | |
5025968492 | counterargument | opposing a different argument in your argument | 7 | |
5025970572 | propaganda | biased or misleading media linked to nationalism (most of the time) | 8 | |
5025970573 | persona | the aspect of someones character that is presented to or perceived by others (playboy billionaire is bruce waynes persona) | 9 | |
5025970574 | SOAPS | speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, tone | 10 | |
5025970575 | arrangement | how smth is organized | 11 | |
5025972660 | Style | an author's own personalized, unique way of writing | 12 | |
5025977952 | delivery | the certain way smth is spoken or written | 13 | |
5025977953 | diction | a person's vocab | 14 | |
5025977954 | syntax | the way a sentence is arranged | 15 | |
5025977955 | polemic | a verbal/written attack on someone | 16 | |
5025980923 | inflammatory | arousing angry/violent feelings | 17 | |
5025980924 | remorseful | sorry/apologetic tones in writing or words | 18 | |
5025980925 | repulsive | something disgusting | 19 | |
5025980926 | ironic | happening in the opposite way that was expected | 20 | |
5025999717 | tricolon | a list of three | 21 | |
5025999718 | cause and effect | organizational pattern that describes actions and results | 22 | |
5026002808 | anaphora | beginning a series of sentences or lines with the same word or phrase | 23 | |
5026002809 | process analysis | describing how a system operates | 24 | |
5026004284 | exemplification | providing a series of examples | 25 | |
5026004285 | compare and contrast | juxtaposing unike things to highlights similarities or differences | 26 | |
5026004286 | classification | sorting information using categories | 27 | |
5026006326 | close reading | attentive to the elements of form and style; annotating is a way to do this | 28 | |
5026009431 | imperative sentence | imperative sentence is a type of sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or command | 29 | |
5026009432 | hortative sentence | hortative is a choice of words that encourage action. | 30 | |
5026011431 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 31 | |
5026011432 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 32 | |
5026011433 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins" "his sermons were full of startling antitheses" | 33 | |
5026013230 | archaic language | old-speak | 34 | |
5026015543 | What are the five parts of the classical argument? | 1. introduction 2. narrative/anecdote 3. confirmation. 4. concession/refutation 5. conclusion | 35 | |
5026019414 | jocular | fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful. | 36 | |
5026077223 | aloof | not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant. | 37 | |
5026077224 | plaintive | sounding sad and mournful. | 38 | |
5026081061 | conciliatory | intended or likely to placate or pacify. | 39 | |
5026081062 | bemused | puzzle, confuse, or bewilder (someone). | 40 | |
5026081063 | ominous | giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious. | 41 | |
5026134034 | jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 42 | |
5026134035 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. "of the people, by the people, for the people" | 43 | |
5026135573 | polysyndeton | many conjunctions in a sentence to make it seem like more than what it is | 44 | |
5026135574 | allusion | to reference smth in a text | 45 | |
5026135575 | inversion | Inversion is achieved by doing the following: Placing an adjective after the noun it qualifies e.g. the soldier strong Placing a verb before its subject e.g. shouts the policeman Placing a noun before its preposition e.g. worlds between | 46 | |
5026137569 | parallelism or parallel structure | Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more words or ideas are of equal importance and to help the reader comprehend what is being written. It is grammatically correct to ensure that phrases, clauses and items on a list after a colon use the correct parallel structure. | 47 | |
5026137570 | personification | giving smth inanimate human qualities | 48 | |
5026171858 | zeugma | verb works figuratively and literally "they carried their backpacks and their dreams" | 49 | |
5026186209 | juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 50 | |
5026186210 | analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 51 | |
5026186211 | colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. the use of ordinary or familiar words or phrases. | 52 | |
5026188441 | cliche | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. | 53 | |
5026195156 | Aristotles canons of rhetoric | The five canons of rhetoric, which trace the traditional tasks in designing a persuasive speech, were first codified in classical Rome: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. | 54 | |
5026199277 | The essential question of rhetorical analysis | how does it function? | 55 | |
5026221848 | Trope | A literary trope is the use of figurative language - via word, phrase, or even an image - for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. The word trope has also come to be used for describing commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices, motifs or clichés in creative works. | 56 | |
5026221849 | Scheme | Rhyme scheme is a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza. The rhyme scheme, or pattern, can be identified by giving end words that rhyme with each other the same letter. | 57 |
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