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Stack #4717596
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rhetoric | the art of using language deliberately to persuade, inform, or move an audience; the study of how discourse produces effects |
| Speaker | The voice delivering the text, including the persona constructed for the occasion distinct from the actual author |
| Audience | The intended recipients, whose values, knowledge, and biases shape every choice the speaker makes |
| Purpose | What the text is suppose to convey/accomplish (persuade, praise, warn, entertain, or explain) |
| Context | The surrounding circumstances (historical, cultural, political) that affect how the text is produced and received |
| Exigence | the problem, urgency, or triggering event that requires immediate action or attention; why the author wrote what they did |
| Style | A writer's personal characteristic pattern of linguistic choices from diction, syntax, imagery, to rhythm |
| Tone | The speakers attitude toward the subject or audience, conveyed through word choice and sentence construction. Tone is described with adjectives: scornful, reverent, wry, elegic, clinical. |
| Mood | The emotional atmosphere a text creates in the reader. This is different from tone as it is for the speaker that affects the audiences mood. |
| Motif | A recurring image, phrase, object, or idea that accumulates significance through repetition across a text |
| Description | Rendering a subject through sensory detail so the reader perceives it concretely and vividly |
| Narration | Recounting events in sequence, structured by time and causality |
| Argument | Advancing a claim supported by reasons and evidence to cause action or agreement across the audience |
| Exposition | A mode of writing explaining, defining, or clarifies a subject so the reader can understand it more clearly. |
| Ethos | Ethos is an appeal to credibility, in which the speaker persuades be appearing trustworthy, knowledgeable, or fair-minded. An audience would more likely accept words from someone who has certified credibility |
| Pathos | Pathos is an appeal to emotion, used to influence the audiences feelings such as sympathy, fear, or hope. This appeal is not inherently dishonest but becomes problematic when it replaces evidence rather than supporting it. |
| Logos | Logos is an appeal to logic, relying on facts, statistics, and reasoned argumentation to persuade. It appeals to the audiences rational judgement rather than their emotions or trust in the speaker. |
| Syntax | Syntax refers to the arrangement of words and construction of sentences within a text. Variations in sentence length and structurture can affect the pace, clarity, and emphasis of a passage. |
| Diction | Diction is a writers specific word choice, including formality and connotation. |
| Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive sentence. This techinique is often used to create emphasis, rhythm, or emotional intensity. |
| Antithesis | a rhetorical device that places two contrasting ideas near one another in parallel grammatical structure. The balance in structure highlights the opposition between the two ideas. |
| Juxtaposition | Juxtaposition involves placing two dissimilar elements side by side to highlight their contrast or reveal a relationship between them. Unlike antithesis, it does not require matching sentence structure. |
| Periodic Sentence | A periodic sentence is constructed so that its main clause or key idea appears at the very end. This structure builds anticipation and emphasizes the concluding idea. |
| Loose Sentence | A loose sentence presents its main clause first, followed by additional descriptive or modifying details. This structure tends to feel more natural and conversational. |
| Syllogism | A syllogism is a form of logical reasoning that proceeds from a general premise to a specific instance and arrives to a conclusion. |
| Imagery | Imagery is descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses. It allows the reader to form a vivid mental impression of a scene, object, or experience. |
| Irony | Irony occurs when there is a contrast between expectation and reality, between what is stated and what is meant. It can appear verbal, situational, or dramatic. |
| Hyperbole | Hyperbole is a deliberate, obvious exaggeration for emphasis or effect not intended to be understood literally. |
| Allusion | An allusion is a brief, indirect reference to a well-known person, event, or work, such as a myth, historical event, or piece of literature. |
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Ana H