Evaluates the speaker's attitude toward the subject and the audience
What is tone?
100
Is the combination and arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is syntax?
100
The process of giving one idea less emphasis than another in a sentence
What is subordination?
100
Parallelism, Antithesis, and Zeugma
What are the schemes of balance?
100
Alliteration, Anaphora, Epistrophe, Anadiiplosis, and Antimetabole
What are the schemes of repetition?
200
To misinterpret tone is to misinterpret meaning
What happens when misinterpreting tone?
200
Usage of coordination, subordination, and placement
What are some techniques in achieving sentence variety?
200
It is one of the most important characteristics of an effective sentence
How is subordination important?
200
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses
What is parallelism?
200
The repetition of initial or medial consonants or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables
What is alliteration?
300
The understanding of diction, images, details, and syntax
What all contributes to the understanding of tone in a written work?
300
To express ideas clearly and to clarify the relationships among ideas
How should sentence variety be used?
300
By introducing them either with subordinating conjunctions or with relative pronouns
How do writers subordinate ideas?
300
A juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure
What is Antithesis?
300
The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses
What is Anaphora?
400
Acerbic, ambivalent, angry, anxious
What are some examples of tone vocabulary starting from the beginning of the alphabet?
400
Using coordinationg conjuctions such as for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so to connect words, phrases, and clauses
What is coordination?
400
Because, if, as, though, while, after, and in order that
What are some subordinating conjunctions?
400
More than one item in a sentence is governed by a single word, usually a verb
What is Zeugma?
400
The repetition of the same word or group of words that ends of successive clauses
What is Epistrophe?
500
Key words, punctuation, stanza and paragraph divisions, changes in line and stanza or in sentence length, and sharp contrasts in diction
What often resembles a shift in tone?
500
By using coordination, combining sentences into one allows for ease of reading more and shows equal importance throughout all parts of a single process
Why is it important for writers to use coordination?
500
It not only de-emphasizes ideas, but also highlights others that the writer feels are more important
How does subordination create style?
500
The use of zeugma stresses the importnace of the controlling verb
How is Zeugma a useful form of creating style?
500
Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order