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| writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach. The work is usually formal and focuses on moral or ethical concerns. This type of writing may be fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. |
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| from the Greek for "beside one another," the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity |
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| denotes an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and easily memorable form. |
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An explicit or implicit reference to a fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event,
outside the story. |
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| is generally the noun or noun phrase to which an anaphor refers in a co reference. |
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| a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y’all, ain’t) |
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| an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish |
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| interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thing, either present or absent. |
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| a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
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| implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association in the reader’s mind. |
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| intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights |
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| a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable. “He went to his final reward” is a common saying for “he died.” These are also often used to obscure the reality of a situation. The military uses “collateral damage” to indicate civilian deaths in a military operation. |
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| the ironic mineralizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is |
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| an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices; or, classification of authors to a group and comparion of an author to similar authors |
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| literal meaning of a word as defined |
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| Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity |
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| word choice, an element of style; it creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning. Different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meaning. An essay written in academic ______ would be much less colorful, but perhaps more precise than street slang. |
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| from the Greek for "to tear flesh," involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something |
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| the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences |
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| a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity |
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| a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule |
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| a word or phrase consists in its having more than one meaning |
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| Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. |
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| an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language |
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| to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented |
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| the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant |
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| from the Greek for "pointedly foolish," author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox |
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| the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events |
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| similar to mood, describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both |
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| the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions |
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| a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule |
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| A group of words made up of a subject and a predicate. A main clause (unlike a dependent clause) can stand alone as a sentence. |
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the emotionally moving quality or power of a literary work or of a particular passage, appealing
especially to out feelings of sorrow, pity, and compassion. |
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| is a common, usually undetected, rhetorical fallacy. It leads to unsupported conclusions and painful places we just can't live with. |
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| Discourse characterized by reasons advanced to support conclusions. |
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| the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another |
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| Sentence which uses and or another conjunction (with no commas) to separate the items in a series. Polysyndeton appear in the form of X and Y and Z, stressing equally each member of a series. It makes the sentence slower and the items more emphatic than in the asyndeton. |
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| Change in tone or point of view |
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| When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them. |
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| In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent’s ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning “against the man.” |
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| the immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background information necessary for understanding the plot; also, explanation; one of the four modes of discourse |
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| The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development. |
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| Language that is based on, or uses, figures of speech such as similes and metaphors. |
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| argument based on logic information |
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| consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. |
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| is a guiding belief. The ethics, or fundamental values, or character of a person or passage |
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| based on an illogical premise. |
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