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| 9932633687 | SOAPSTone | Speaker-the person or group who creates the text Occasion- the time & place the text was written or spoken Audience-the listener, viewer, or reader of a text or performance Purpose-the goal the speaker wants to achieve Subject-the topic Tone-the speaker's attitude toward the subject, conveyed by rhetorical choices | 0 | |
| 9932664053 | Narration | -an account of actions and events that happen to someone or something in a particular place and time; storytelling Features: -focuses on events -happens in a particular setting(s) -unfolds over time (this happened and then this happened) Why do we narrate? -get reader's attention -illustrate a point -explain the significance of something -persuade others to our point of view | 1 | |
| 9932688780 | Description | -writing that appeals to the senses. Tells how something looks, feels, sounds, smells, or tastes. Features: - appeals to the senses Why do we describe? -to make what we're writing about less abstract and more concrete -to help readers see what we see | 2 | |
| 9932709081 | Analysis | -the mental act of taking something apart to understand and explain how the pieces fit together Features: -looking at individual parts -noting their relationship to the whole Why do we analyze? -to understand how something works -so we can do it ourselves -so we can explain to others how it is done | 3 | |
| 9932734050 | Process analysis | -writing that explains, step by step, how a series of actions or events produces an end result Features: -looking at the parts of your subject -seeing the parts as connected as steps in a sequence Why do we analyze process? -teach others how the process works | 4 | |
| 9932751050 | Cause and Effect Analysis | -writing that explains why something happened and examines what might happen as a result Features: - looking backward to try to find a cause - looking forward to consider a possible outcome Why do we analyze cause and effect? -to try to predict future events | 5 | |
| 9932768722 | Definition | -writing that explains what something is and is not by identifying the characteristics that set it apart from all others like it Features: -an examination of key features - perhaps comparison - note that writing defines doesn't necessarily need to be relying on a dictionary or an authority Why do we define? -to better understand our subject | 6 | |
| 9932791187 | Comparison and contrast | -writing that explores the similarities and differences between 2 or more persons, places, things or ideas Features: - an examination of similarities and differences - usually there's an emphasis of one over the other Why do we compare and contrast? - to evaluate - to help us better understand each individual subject | 7 | |
| 9932817623 | Argumentation | -writing that takes a position on an issue and seeks to convince its audience to act in a certain way, to believe in the truth or validity of a statement, or simply to listen w/ an open mind Features: - taking a position, making a claim -supporting that position w/evidence, logical reasoning, and/or an appeal to emotion Why do we argue? - to get others to take our ideas seriously, to see that our ideas are plausible - to get others to consider a new way of thinking - to get others to accept or reject a claim - to get others to take action | 8 | |
| 9932868207 | Evaluation | -writing that makes a judgment about something using clearly defined criteria Features: - description of the subject - clearly defined criteria - a fair assessment Why do we evaluate? - to judge what we should spend our time on. | 9 | |
| 9932888761 | MASS | Modes Appeals Situation Style (Organization/Structure) | 10 | |
| 9932983096 | Hasty Generalization | a general statement lacking enough evidence to support it; an exaggeration | 11 | |
| 9932995258 | Circular Reasoning | reasoning which uses premise to prove the premise | 12 | |
| 9932999884 | Red Herring | a distraction that sounds relevant but isn't | 13 | |
| 9933006756 | Tu Quoque | charging your opponent with hypocrisy as a way to distract people from the issue at hand | 14 | |
| 9933015331 | Causal Fallacy | a logical breakdown in trying to determine why something happened | 15 | |
| 9933019441 | Sunk Cost | we should continue with a course of action because of the time we've already spent doing it | 16 | |
| 9933027832 | Ad Hominem | an insult used as if it were evidence in support of a conclusion | 17 | |
| 9933033390 | Straw Man | oversimplifying your opponent's position | 18 | |
| 9933040119 | Appeal to Ignorance | using a lack of knowledge as a premise in an argument | 19 | |
| 9933051905 | False Dilemma | limiting options to two when there are really more | 20 | |
| 9933057671 | Slippery Slope | going to an improbable extreme in your reasoning | 21 | |
| 9933094010 | Appeal to Authority | misleading use of the work of experts | 22 | |
| 9933101254 | Equivocation | deliberate use of words or phrases to cause confusion; ambiguity | 23 | |
| 9933113129 | Bandwagon | assuming that something is true, good, or right because others agree with it | 24 | |
| 9933121567 | Appeal to Pity | appealing to emotions when emotions aren't relevant to the truth of falsity of the issue | 25 | |
| 9933181922 | alliteration | repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence | 26 | |
| 9933230097 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place or to a work of art | 27 | |
| 9933234895 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 28 | |
| 9933245121 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | 29 | |
| 9933246806 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 30 | |
| 9933250912 | archaic diction | old fashioned or outdated choice of words | 31 | |
| 9933255621 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 32 | |
| 9933264949 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 33 | |
| 9933273360 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 34 | |
| 9933276505 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 35 | |
| 9933282050 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence | 36 | |
| 9933284129 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 37 | |
| 9933289230 | metaphor | figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as | 38 | |
| 9933294027 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 39 | |
| 9933305588 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 40 | |
| 9933311193 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 41 | |
| 9933318176 | personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea | 42 | |
| 9933323711 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 43 | |
| 9933329556 | synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 44 | |
| 9933333626 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 45 |
