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| the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | ||
| a breif statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle. | ||
| a grammatical unit of syntax that contains both a subject and a verb. | ||
| teaching, a didactic workhas the purpose of insturcting, especially a moral principle. | ||
| the most popular are the apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonomy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, etc. | ||
| the different forms of writing/styles within a genre. | ||
| the major category which a literary work fits. | ||
| a sermon. | ||
| refers to figurative language and figures of speech instead of just a sensory description. | ||
| to draw a reasonable conclusion from the info presented. | ||
| strongly worded, violent, verbal attack, or a strongly worded attitude. | ||
| an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. | ||
| a subject complement. | ||
| noun/noun phrase that renames the subject. | ||
| branch of linguistics that studies the meanings of words, their historical and physchological development, their connotations, their relationship to one another. | ||
| 1.)an evaluation of the writer's choices in language. 2.)classification of a writer to a group. | ||
| word/phrase/clause that follows a linking verb and completes the subject by renaming/describing. | ||
| clasue that cannot stand alone in a sentence | ||
| deductive system of reasoning based on a major and minor premise and a conclusion. | ||
| anything that reperesents something else. | ||
| author's choice of words. | ||
| central idea/message of a work. | ||
| an author's attitude towards a subject. | ||
| a word or phrase that links different ideas, usually a shift from one idea to another. | ||
| the intentional ironic minimalizing of a fact, opposite of hyperbole. | ||
| intellectually amusing language that suprises and delights, speedy or quick perception. | ||
| a writer's intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject of the writing. | ||
| pointing out as a gesture of fairness the good points of the viewpoint opposite of your own. | ||
| refers to nouns that name physical objects. | ||
| the relationiship between meaning(what is said) and rhetoric(how it is said). | ||
| "defend" means to agree with passage, "challenge" means to agrue against the passage, "qualify" means to reserve judgement. | ||
| sensory, appealing to the visual senses. | ||
| figures of speech, syntax, diction, and other stylistic elements that produce an artistic effect. | ||
| how diction, syntax, figurative language, and sentence structure create a cumulative effect. | ||
| the tools of the storyteller. | ||
| devices and other considerations of a story such as setting, opening conflict, rising action, climax, atmosphere, tone, narration type, etc. | ||
| the style of telling the story. | ||
| "observation" means examples from your wisdom, "experience" means examples from your own life, "reading" means examples derived from literature. | ||
| words in the passage that have strong connotations, words that intensify the emotional effect. | ||
| presents a coherent argument in which the evidence builds to a logical and relevent conclusion, appeals to the audience's emotions or ethical standards. | ||
| either the style of narration or the attitude reflected by the author. | ||
| refers to all of the devices of composition available to the writer. | ||
| tools of rheotric, such as tone, diction, and imagery. | ||
| how a passage is constructed, organization of images, details or arguements to serve the author's purpose. | ||
| a look at the type of sentences the author uses and the effect it causes. | ||
| analyze all the elements in language that contribute to style. |
