vocabulary
What is subordination?
secondary or less important status
What is explanatory writing called?
What is exigence?
The reason the author felt the need to write; the urgency to address the issue at hand
When writing is instructive, especially morally, and often pedantic
What is didactic?
It minimizes something with the effect of bringing focus to it.
Understatement as a technique does what?
What is the word for ordinary conversation?
colloquial
Can you define how argument is different than persuasive writing?
An argument looks at the tensions and complexities. It doesn't just aim to persuade a single view.
Context is defined as what?
the social, cultural, political, and historical implications that affect the author and audience
the noun to which a pronoun refers
what is the antecedent?
A system of naming something
nomenclature
Can you define credo?
a statement of beliefs
In an argument, what is the effect of including narrative anecdotes?
typically it will appeal to pathos/emotions
Context creates what in a piece of writing?
the tensions and complexities
when something is scarce and not available, this word is often used.
why the argument matters or explains, "So what?"
What should a conclusion do?
When something is erroneous it is what?
incorrect
What is a genre of writing that mocks something through exaggeration?
parody
How is the purpose different from the exigency of a piece?
exigency = author's need to speak
purpose = author's shaping of message for the audience to do/think/understand something about the topic
an argument that attacks a person making the argument not the stance on an issue
ad- hominem
If and when statements in a sentence
what is a subordinate clause?
To denigrate someone or something is to do what?
criticize unfairly
What kind of writing can be sarcastic, bitter, or tongue in cheek?
irony
What the three appeals and how do each function?
ethos - credibility
pathos - emotion
logos -logic or reasoning
if/then logic (all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs)
What is a syllogism?