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| 10738782826 | speaker | Who is writing? What credentials do they have? | 0 | |
| 10738788026 | occasion | What is happening that prompts the writer to write this piece? | 1 | |
| 11290871238 | audience | For whom is this piece written? | 2 | |
| 11290880086 | purpose | Why is the writer writing? | 3 | |
| 11290883910 | subject | What is the writer writing about? | 4 | |
| 11290901774 | tone | the author's attitude towards the subject of his/her writing (it is important because to misunderstand tone is to misunderstand meaning) | 5 | |
| 11290915581 | language | Level of Language; figurative language | 6 | |
| 11290919840 | imagery | appeal to the senses | 7 | |
| 11290941209 | diction | word choice | 8 | |
| 11290947743 | detail | content, examples, allusions | 9 | |
| 11290950445 | syntax | sentence structure | 10 | |
| 11290967809 | persuasion | to defend, refute, or qualify a position in order to make others believe your views | 11 | |
| 11290981523 | exposition | a comprehensive description & explanation of an idea | 12 | |
| 11290988862 | narration | telling about an event like a story using time order | 13 | |
| 11290999711 | description | giving a verbal picture using spatial & sensory details | 14 | |
| 11291008545 | classification | dividing a number of things into groups based on shared qualities | 15 | |
| 11291034061 | cause & effect | explaining what led to and followed from an event and how causes and effects relate to said event | 16 | |
| 11291074172 | compare & contrast | showing the similarities & differences between 2 concepts using the point-by-point or block-by-block method | 17 | |
| 11291123867 | process analysis | breaking down how something occurs (ex. rhetorical analysis which breaks down how a writer effectively uses rhetorical strategies to achieve his purpose) | 18 | |
| 11291144080 | example/analogy | using a special comparison or different examples to explain a concept | 19 | |
| 11291157721 | extended definition | explaining the meaning of a term or concept often using examples | 20 | |
| 11291178825 | What should a rhetorical analysis essay's thesis answer? | state the author's purpose and what rhetorical strategies he/she uses to convey said purpose | 21 | |
| 11291191460 | analysis | breaking something into it's parts | 22 | |
| 11291195348 | synthesis | working with the pieces your given and combining them with your thoughts into a new whole | 23 | |
| 11291204263 | evaluation | weighing the merits or value of something | 24 | |
| 11291229605 | subtopic style (rhetorical analysis) | each paragraph explains one rhetorical strategy and connects it to the meaning, purpose, & effect of the work as a whole | 25 | |
| 11291258978 | explication method (rhetorical analysis) | starts at the beginning of the piece of writing and unfolds the rhetorical strategies in the order they appear; more effective | 26 | |
| 11291283226 | rhetoric | the art or the study of forming a persuasive argument and adapting it to most effectively influence your audience ("the art of influencing the soul through words" -socrates) | 27 | |
| 11291295269 | trivium | an education in rhetoric, logic, & grammar | 28 | |
| 11291318673 | rhetorical appeal | way of influencing the reader | 29 | |
| 11291333556 | logos | appeal to audience's logic | 30 | |
| 11291338476 | ethos | appeal to speaker's credibility | 31 | |
| 11291347143 | pathos | appeal to audience's emotion | 32 | |
| 11291353468 | rhetorical mode | way to structure/organize/develop an essay based on it's purpose | 33 | |
| 11291360982 | annecdote | a short, personal story (usually humorous) used to illustrate a point | 34 | |
| 11291373905 | parallelism | two or more ideas linked with coordinate or correlative conjunctions are expressed in the same grammatical form | 35 | |
| 11291808112 | loose sentence | independent clause comes first, followed by dependent clauses or phrases | 36 | |
| 11291820259 | periodic sentence | dependent clauses or phrases precede the independent clause; can build up suspense | 37 | |
| 12540624404 | opening strategies | quotation, fact/statistic, strong/insightful opinion, rhetorical question, anecdote, well-crafted sentence | 38 |
