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Rhet Strategies
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract | designating qualities or characteristics apart from specific objects or events- opposite of concrete |
| Allegory | narrative in which character, action or setting represent abstract concepts and underlying meaning has a moral social religious significance |
| alliteration | repetition of initial identical consonant sounds |
| allusion | brief reference to person, event, or place real or fictitious |
| analogy | process of reasoning that assumes if two subjects share a number of speicific observable qualities then they may be expected to share qualities that have not been observed |
| Anaphora | repetition in which same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. |
| Anastrope | inversion of the usual, normal or logical order of the parts of a sentence. used to secure rhythm. |
| Anticipating Audience Response | anticipating and stating the arguments that one's opponent is likely to give and then answering these arguments before the opponent can voice them |
| Aphorism | concise statement of principle or precept given in pointed words. Used by Hippocrates. Memory is a monster |
| Apostrophe | someone usually absent, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. |
| Attitude | closely linked with tone of a piece |
| Call to Action | urges people to action or promotes change |
| Characterization | create and reveal fictional personalities by describing the character's appearance, actions, thoughts, and feelings |
| Chiasmus | balance in which second part is balanced against the first but reversed Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike |
| Classification and Division | sorting grouping collection and analysing things by categories based on shared features. Breaking down an entire whole into separate parts or sorting a group of items into categories |
| Cliche | timeworn expression that has lost its power to evoke images due to overuse |
| Coinage | word or phrase invented or fabricated |
| Colloquial expression | words or phrases used in everyday conversation rather than formal speech |
| Comparison/Contrast | pointing out similarities and differences point by point or subject by subject |
| Compound/Complex Sentence | contains two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause |
| Conceit | elaborate and surprising figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things |
| Concrete | actual things, instances, or experiences opposite of abstract |
| Defensive, Offensive | speaker defends her own views and/or attacks the views of others |
| Defintion | specifying basic nature of any phenomenon, idea, or thing |
| Denotation, Connotation | specific, exact meaning of word independent of emotional coloration vs. emotional implications that words may carry |
| Diction | choice of words in a work and an element of style important to the word's effectiveness |
| Doublespeak | language used to distort and manipulate rather than communicate |
| Downplaying/Intensifying | methods of drawing and diverting attention |
| Ellipsis | omission of a word or words necessary for complete construction but understood in context. I love english as much as she |
| Emotional Appeal | exploiting readers' feelings of pity or fear to make a case PATHOS |
| Ethical Appeal | ability to convince readers that you are reliable, intelligent person who knows what you're talking about and cares about the issues. ethos |
| Ethnocentricity | belief in the inherent superiority of one's own group or culture |
| Euphemism | to speak well of - substitutions of inoffensive, indirect expression for a word perceived as socially unacceptable |
| Exposition | seeks to clarify, explain, or inform using definition, classification, comparison and contrast, etc |
| Fig Lang | use of words outside their literal or usual meanings, used to suggest associations and comparisons that create effective images. |
| Hyperbole | conscious exaggeration |
| Imagery | convey sensory experience |
| Irony | words express a meaning opposite to the intended meaning |
| Jargon | specialized language providing a shorthand method between people in the same field |
| Lending Credenec | in arguing point, always lend opponent some credit for the opponent's ideas. |
| Litotes | understatement thing affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite. not unmindful |
| Logical Fallacies | lend plausibility to an unsound argument |
| Ad Hominem | attack against character of person instead of issue |
| Non Sequitur | intro of irrelevant evidence to support a claim |
| Red Herring | irrelevant point to divert attention from real issue |
| Slippery Slope | Failure to provide evidence showing that one event will lead to a chain of events of catastrophic nature |
| Logical reasoning | principles governing correct or reliable inferences. facts, reasons, and expert opinion |
| Loose sentence | grammatically complete at some point before the end opposite of periodic sentence |
| Metaphor | implied comparison she is a rose |
| Metonymy | use term closely associated with the word in mind as a substitute. The Crown for a king |
| Mood | overall atmosphere of a work |
| Motif | recurrent images, words, objects, phrases, or actions that tend to unify the work |
| Narration | story of events and experiences that tells what happened |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words by their sound suggest their meaning |
| Paradox | while seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true |
| Parallelism | one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased. I like to fish and to swim or I like fishing and swimming |
| Periodic Sentence | sentence not grammatically complete before its end opposite of loose sentence |
| Personification | attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things |
| Point of View | the way in which the reader is presented with the materials of the story; vantage point of the actions of the story |
| Polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions in close succession |
| Process Analysis | method of clarifying the nature of something by explaining how it works in separate, easy to understand steps. |
| Repetition | reiterating a word or phrase or rewording the same idea for emphasis |
| Rhetorical Question | asked solely to produce an effect and not to elicit a reply |
| Rhetorical strategies | RS,lit devices, and imagery in analyzing a piece: use compare/contrast, process analysis, definition, narration, cause/effect, or argumentation/persuasion. only RS: everything about analysis |
| Satire | ridicules both people and societal institutions, using iron, wit, and exaggeration |
| Simile | comparison using like or as |
| Simple Sentence | complete sentence that is neither compound nor complex |
| Spin | In politics, harmful situations are played in the media as philanthropic endeavors. Kinda like Euphemism? |
| Style | author's characteristic manner of expression. Types of words used, their placement, and distinctive features of tone, imagery, fig lang, sound, etc |
| Syllogism | formula for presenting argument logically. 3 divisions: Major premise, minor premise, and a conclusion |
| Symbol | something concrete that stands or represents something abstract American flag is a symbol of our country's freedom |
| Synecdoche | Whole is used for the part or the part is used for the whole |
| Syntax | pattern or structure of the word order in a sentence or phrase |
| TONE!! | voice the writer has chosen to project to relate to readers. Produced by combined effect of word choice, sentence structure, and purpose |
| Voice | implied personality the author chooses to adopt. In fiction the voice may reflect a persona who projects views different from the author's |
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