Pathos is a sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work
In writing, authors try to persuade readers by appealing to their emotion
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What is a pun
A play on words
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What is personification
A figure in speech in which ideas in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities
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Define Paradox
A Paradox is a seemingly contradiction that in fact reveals some truth
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Define Purpose
What the writer wants to accomplish in a particular piece of writing
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What is a paragraph
A paragraph is the single most important unit of thought in an essay. Its a series of closely related sentences.
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Define Person
a category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate first person, second person, or third person
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What is a publication
The publication stage of the writing process is when the writer shares his or her writing with the intended audience
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Define Point of View
A particular perspective from which a story is told is called a the POV
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What is Persona
The character created by the voice or narrator of the speak of the text
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What is a prewriting
A prewriting encompasses all the activities that take place before a writer actually starts a rough draft. The author will select a subject,, focus on a particular topic, collect information, and determine a thesis
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Define Parody
An effort to ridicule or make fun of a literary work or an author by writing an imitation of the work or the author's style
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What is Process Analysis
Process Analysis is a type of exposition (definition, division and classification, comparison and contrast)
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What is Parallelism
Parallelism is a literary technique that relies on the same syntactical structures