11247613560 | analyze | to break down into parts | 0 | |
11247613561 | Synthesis | Put an idea together based on multiple parts | 1 | |
11247613562 | Well developed | Well throughout details | 2 | |
11247613563 | coherent | Clear; make sense | 3 | |
11247613564 | Speaker | The one who is delivering the type of writing | 4 | |
11247613565 | occasion | The scenery | 5 | |
11247613566 | audience | The one who is absorbing the information | 6 | |
11247613567 | purpose | The reason why they are doing something | 7 | |
11247613568 | Argument | Different points/sides | 8 | |
11247613569 | Position | Certain side, claim, thesis, purpose | 9 | |
11247613570 | Evidence | Information to back you up | 10 | |
11247613571 | passage/excerpt | a section of text | 11 | |
11247613572 | Rhetoric | effective writing or speaking | 12 | |
11247613573 | rhetorical strategies | Covers figurative language like diction, syntax, etc. | 13 | |
11247613574 | attitude | How speaker feels towards a subject | 14 | |
11247613575 | Tone | How the writer is impacted | 15 | |
11247613576 | Diction | word choice | 16 | |
11247613577 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 17 | |
11247613578 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 18 | |
11247613579 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 19 | |
11247613580 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 20 | |
11247613581 | Antecedent/reference | Before/(like they/she/he) | 21 | |
11247613582 | Logos | logic | 22 | |
11247613583 | Ethos | credibility | 23 | |
11247613584 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 24 | |
11247613585 | Claim/Thesis | a statement of the author's point of view | 25 | |
11247613586 | authority | Information from authorities people, ex: doctors and scientists | 26 | |
11247613587 | credibility | believability | 27 | |
11247613588 | Style | A basic and distinctive mode of expression. | 28 | |
11247613589 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 29 | |
11247613590 | Imagery | Words that paint a picture | 30 | |
11247613591 | Irony | Something happens that you didn't expect | 31 | |
11247613592 | formal | Sounding professional, ex: formal speech | 32 | |
11247613593 | colloquial | How you speak to someone | 33 | |
11247613594 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 34 | |
11247613595 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as; Something true but make it extreme | 35 | |
11247613596 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 36 | |
11247613597 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 37 | |
11247613598 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 38 | |
11247613599 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration; not true | 39 |
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