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Vocabulary 7
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General Vocab
11th Grade
11/25/2008

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aphorism
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a short, witty statement
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stylistic devices
Definition
speech, syntax, diction (noun)
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didactic
Definition
educational; a teaching tone (adj)
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parody
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a writing which imitates another serious piece and pokes fun at the original (noun)
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synthesis
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the joining of two or more ideas or arguments to produce a new idea or argument (noun)
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synopsis
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a summary of the main points of a story or essay (noun)
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parallelism
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the coordination of sentence syntax, word order, and ideas (noun)
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ethics
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the character or emotions of the writer reflected in speech or sriting (noun)
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deductive
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reasoning from the general to the specific (adj)
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inductive
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reasoning from the specific to the general (adj)
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