Concept Cards
Concept cards for Mr. Benbenek's class!
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| 222170586 | Rhetorical Question | Question we ask, not to be answered- Persuasive tool | |
| 222170587 | Narration | An expressive purpose of a story | |
| 222170588 | Diction | Word choice | |
| 222170589 | Syntax | Word Order | |
| 222170590 | Close reading | "reading between the lines" | |
| 222170591 | Annotation | marking up text when close reading | |
| 222170592 | tone | author's attitude toward a subject | |
| 222170593 | Rhetoric | the ability to see the available means of persuasion | |
| 222170594 | Connotation | other meanings associated or implied with the word | |
| 222170595 | Inductive Reasonsing | notes many specific things to conclude to a general truth | |
| 222170596 | Epigram/Aphorism | short, witty statements of a general truth | |
| 222170597 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a succession pf clauses or sentences | |
| 222170598 | Epithet | a title that is descriptive; an attachment to a name | |
| 222170599 | Antithesis | uses polar opposites to contrast something | |
| 222170600 | Euphemism | good sounding; a nicer way to say something | |
| 222170601 | Syllogism | series of statements that start with a general principle/rule/law that is applied to a specific case | |
| 222170602 | Alliteration | repetition of the initial sound of a word | |
| 222170603 | Similie | comparing two objects using like or as | |
| 222170604 | Logos | using logic to support a claim; facts and statistics | |
| 222170605 | Ethos | a source's credibility, speaker's authority | |
| 222170606 | Pathos | appeals to emotion | |
| 222170607 | Allusion | reference to another work | |
| 222170608 | Hyperbole | over exaggeration to make a point | |
| 222170609 | compare/contrast | show how things are similar/show how things seem similar but are different | |
| 222170610 | Exposition | presenting an idea by supporting with evidence | |
| 222170611 | Denotation | exact meaning of a word | |
| 222170612 | cause/effect | helps reader understand connectivity of a chain of events | |
| 222170613 | Process Analysis | explains how a phenomena works; an analysis of why | |
| 222170614 | Inversion | reverse ordinary syntactical structure of a statement; "Yoda" talk | |
| 222170615 | Deductive reasoning | narrows down until truth is inescapable; general to specific | |
| 222170616 | Irony | reality is contrary to expectations | |
| 222170617 | Parallelism | a structure that is repeated | |
| 222170618 | Periodic Sentence | saves the subject and verb for the end | |
| 222170619 | Understatement | down plays something | |
| 222170620 | Apostrophe | a reference to someone/something not there | |
| 222170621 | Cumulative Sentence | begins with subject and verb | |
| 222170622 | Balanced Sentence | Parallels of structure in two clauses | |
| 222170623 | Analogy | extended metaphor and simile in relation to something to have a clearer idea | |
| 222170624 | Definition | creation of meaning | |
| 222170625 | Classification | developing an idea by breaking down a subject and trying to define a system into writing | |
| 222170626 | Description | attempts to develop an idea to illustrate detailS | |
| 222170627 | Onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like it is spelled | |
| 222170628 | Metaphor | saying an object is what you are trying to say | |
| 222170629 | Paradox | something self contradictory |