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AP English Rhetoric Terms Alliteration-Documentation

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Alliteration   The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables  
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Allusion   An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event  
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Analogy   An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things  
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Anaphora   The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses  
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Anecdote   A short account of an interesting event  
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Annotation   Explanatory or critical notes added to a text  
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Antecedent   The noun to which a later pronoun refers  
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Antimetabole   The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen contrast  
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Antithesis   Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas  
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Aphorism   A short, astute statement of a general truth  
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Appositive   A word of phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun  
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Archaic Diction   The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language  
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Argument   A statement put forth and supported by evidence  
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Aristotelian Triangle   A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience  
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Assertion   An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument.  
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Assumption   A belief or statement taken for granted without proof.  
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Asyndeton   Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses.  
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Attitude   The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone.  
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Audience   One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed.  
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Authority   A reliable, respected source--someone with knowledge.  
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Bias   Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue  
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Cite   Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source  
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Claim   An assertion, usually supported by evidence  
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Close Reading   A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text  
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Colloquial/ism   An informal or conversational use of language  
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Common Ground   Shared beliefs, values, or positions.  
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Complex Sentence   A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.  
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Concession   A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding  
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Connotation   That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning  
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Context   Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning.  
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Coordination   Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordination conjunction such as and, or, or but  
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Counterargument   A challenge to a position; an opposing argument  
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Credible   Worthy of belief; Trustworthy  
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Cumulative Sentence   An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail  
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Declarative Sentence   A sentence that makes a statement  
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Deduction   Reasoning from general to specific  
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Denotation   The literal meaning of a world; its dictionary definition  
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Dialectical Journal   A double-column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in the other column  
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Diction   Word choice  
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Documentation   Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing  
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