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Essentially any sentence with an active verb such as "Young Goodman Brown entered a deep dark wood."
What is active voice?
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In rhetoric, this is the deliberate repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses, or paragraphs. Seen often in political speeches when politicians make promises to voters.
What is anaphora?
100
An appeal to emotion. This is one of the fundamental stragegies of argumentation identified by Aristotle.
What is Pathos?
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Argument occurs when the speaker states a claim that includes a word or phrase tghat needs to be defined before the argument can proceed.
What is begging the question?
100
A regional speech pattern; the way people talk in different parts of the world.
What is dialect?
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The repitition of a phonetic sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence for some purpose.
What is alliteration?
200
A form of logical argumentation that uses claims or premise. (Author assumes you will accept the claims as the truth and you will deduce the correct conclusion).
What is deductive?
200
The reversal of the natural order of words in a sentence of a line of poetry.
What is anastrophe?
200
A fallacy and false cause.
What is cause and effect?
200
The particulare words an author uses in an essay.
What is diction?
300
A reference that recalls another work, another time in history, another famous person, and so forth.
What is allusion?
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An observation of claim that it is in opposition to the claim of someone else.
What is antithesis?
300
Also called a noun phrase which modifies the noun next to it.
What is appositive?
300
An ABBA synactical structure rather than the more traditional ABAB structure.
What is chiasmus?
300
Three dots that indicate words have been left out of a quotation; they can also be used to create suspence.
What is ellipsis?
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A technique of repitition where the last word of the clause begins the next clause, creating a connection of ideas important to the author's purpose in some way.
What is anadiplosis?
400
A brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth.
What is aphorism?
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The deliberate omission of conjunctions from a series of related independent clauses. The effect is to create a tight and forcefull sentence.
What is asyndeton?
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The associations or modds that accompany a word. Words generally are negative, positive, or neutral.
What is connotation?
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An appeal to credibility. Writer seeks to convince you that he or she has the background, history, skills, and/or expertise to speak on the issue.
What is Ethos?
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A term that signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas.
What is analogy?
500
Prayer-like; this is a direct adress to someone who is not present, to a diety or muse or some other power. Nearly always Pathos.
What is apostrophe?
500
Also called Vox Populi. Argument that "every one it doing it".
What is band wagon?
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The opposite of connotation.
What is denotation?
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To use a safer or nicer word for something others find inappropriate or unappealing.
What is euphemism?
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