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Word choice - particularly as an element of style
What is diction?
100
To explain and analyze with support
What is exposition?
100
Ordinary or familiar type of conversation.
What is colloquial?
100
describes specific describable things, people, or places
What is concrete language?
100
Rather than the dictionary definition, the associations suggested by a word
What is connotation?
200
The repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words
What is consonance?
200
the explicate meaning of a word
What is denotation?
200
to visually present a person, place, or event so the reader can picture
What is description?
200
a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
What is complex sentence?
200
a common or familiar type of saying
What is colloquialism?
300
Accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint
What is concession?
300
moving from general statements we accept as true, to an inevitable conclusion
What is deduction?
300
the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text
What is explication?
300
combining sentences or clauses into a single sentence. By doing so the writer gives both clauses equal importance
What is coordination?
300
a term used to describe fiction, nonfiction, or poetry that teaches a specific lesson of moral or provides a model for corect behavior or thinking
What is didactic?
400
the deliberate omission of a word from prose done for effect by the author
What is ellipsis?
400
when a writer appeals to an audiences emotions to excite them in the argument
What is emotional appeal?
400
a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of theme
What is epigraph?
400
when a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him based on presentation of image of self through the text.
What is ethical appeal?
400
A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts
What is euphemism?
500
All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.
What is deduction?
500
My uncle "passed away" last week. That poor guy is very "vertically challenged".
What is euphemism?
500
"raining cats and dogs" and "dead as a doornail"; and aphorisms such as "There's more than one way to skin a cat"
What is colloquialism?
500
"Give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henery
What is coordination?
500
When advertising agencies use a picture of a quivering, abused puppy to get you to donate to a cause - this is an example of ...
What is emotional appeal?
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