Positive Vocab Terms
Denoting someone as hard-working and dedicated.
What is DILIGENT?
Someone or something that is dangerously unstable.
What is PRECARIOUS?
This is not a compliment by any means, since someone is calling you shallow.
What is SUPERFICIAL?
Intentionally comparing or contrasting ideas for better illumination of concepts.
What is JUXTAPOSITION?
The various organizational techniques for authors to frame their texts.
What are RHETORICAL MODES?
You want to be this when communicating with people because it means you are clear and easy to understand.
What is LUCID?
Evidence of something done in haste, or lacking in thoroughness.
What is CURSORY?
When someone can discern or distinguish a situation, they can be described in this manner.
What is PERCEPTIVE?
Repeating the same grammatical structure at the beginning of sentences for a desired impact.
What is ANAPHORA?
Authors will often supplement comprehension by creating visuals in the minds of their audience.
What is IMAGERY?
Describes the action of supporting, or propping someone/thing up.
What is BOLSTER?
Confidence is good, but to do this is negatively connotated.
What is DAUNT?
Clarifying something, or to light up, depending on the context.
What is ILLUMINATE?
The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.
What is PARALLELISM?
This is an author's promise to their audience and what they will intentionally prove with claims and evidence.
What is THESIS?
Pleasing, and concerned with art or beauty.
What is AESTHETIC?
Labeling someone or something as extravagant or wasteful.
What is PROFLIGATE?
When a group decides to confirm upon something.
What is CORROBORATE?
Inquiries by an author, but they don't really want to know the audience's answer.
What is RHETORICAL QUESTION?
The unique way a writer composes texts.
What is STYLE?