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| frief narrative of an entertaining and presumably true incident |
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Poser of tragedy to purge the emoitons of pity and fear that its incidents have arounsed.
example: READING ABOUT CHARACTERS DEAL WITH COLFLICT, HELPS THE READER TO DEAL. |
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techniques used to develop character.
1. what writer says. -direct
2. whars own actions/words/thoughts. -indirect
3. actions/words/thoughts of other chars that pertain to the char. -indirect |
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word/phrase used in normal day life that is innaproprate for a formal essay.
(we chowed down) |
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| paradox of difficult problem whose answer involves a pun |
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| paradox of difficult problem whose answer involves a pun |
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| beginning with a general idea and reasoning on's way to a speciic point or concdlusion |
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a tyupe of writing that describes something or someone through deatailed observaiont of color, moiton, sound, taste, smell, and touch.
rhetorical mode. |
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| ethics or values; an author might appeal to a reachers principles |
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type of writing that explains or informs, such as a comparison/contrast
rhetorical mode |
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| an obvious extravagant exaggeration or overstatement, not intended to be taken literally, but used figuratively to creat humore/emphasis. |
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type of writng that tells a story /experience in fiction nonfiction poetry or drama
rhetorical mode |
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| the framework of a piece of writing, such as the elements of argument in essays |
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| the nonstructural elements of a apiece such as metaphor, imager, diction and tone and rhyme and meter |
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style that portrays hums as having no free will; being driven by the natural forces of heredity envoronment and namialistic urges ove which they have no control.
bow chicka wow wow.
we are all uncontrollable, wild beasts. |
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| statement that while apparently self contradictory is nonetheless essentially true. example: " i am not as wise as the day i was born" |
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| type of argumentation writing in which appeals to reason and emotion are used to convince. |
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| literary style and movement that streessed accuracy in the prtrayal of life. focusing on characters with whome middle-class reasers could idientify; a direct contrast to romaticism |
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| an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its infulecnces as a major part of plot. |
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| rhetorical modes of discourse |
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| 4 main purposes for writing: expository, description, narration and argumentaion. |
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| writing techniquest/devices such as irony, metaphor, parrallelism, organization, or puctuation that an author usee to accoumplish a purpose, (such as show the theme/develop a character. |
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| literary style and movement that glirified nature and celebrated individuality, stressing EMOtion, intuation and freeedom |
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| and argument/form of reasoning win which 2 statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them. |
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the arrangement and grammmatical relation of words phraseas and clauses in sentences
simple: The order and arangement of things. |
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