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10th Grade
01/29/2013

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Irony
Definition

A situation or statemnt charactirized by significant difference of what is expected or understood and what actually happens or what is meant.

 

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Ethos
Definition

In dramatic litrurature, the moral element that describe the characters action, rather than thought or emotion

 

 

 

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Propaganda
Definition

Infromation or rumor deliebartly spread to help or hurt a person,group, or institution

 

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Litote
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A from of understandment in which a negative is the contary of is used to achive emphasis or intensity

 

 

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Anaphora
Definition
Repetition of one or more words at the head of consecutive phrases, clauses, or sentences
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Antithesis
Definition

Contrast within parallel phrases (not to be confused with the ordinary use of the word to mean “extreme opposite”): “Many are called, but few are chosen.” The term can also refer to literary characters who, though not necessarily antagonists, represent opposite personal characteristics or moral views.

 

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Paradox
Definition
A statement tat seems contridictory but is true
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Rhetoric
Definition
An art  that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate
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Proposal
Definition
it is a decleration statement in writing
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Fallacy
Definition
when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole
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Rebuttal
Definition
A form of evidence that is contridict
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Equivocation

Definition
the use in a syllogism of several times
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