Word | Definition |
narrative | an account of actions and events that have befallen someone or something. |
narrative elements | * narrator/ POV
* plot/ conflict
* setting
* characters
* audience/tone/purpose |
rhetorical mode | a way of presenting a topic through writing or speech. |
descriptive mode | appeals to the senses |
argumentative mode | makes a point and tries to persuade people through emotional, ethical, and logical appeals. |
expository/ analytical mode | informational writing. explains, gives directions. |
objective | presents its subject impartially (descriptive) |
subjective | conveys the writer's personal response to the subject (descriptive) |
multi-sensory images | imagery that appeals to more than one sense. |
abstract | having to do with essences and ideas (descriptive) |
concrete | definite, has the ability to be perceived (descriptive) |
metaphor | direct comparison of 2 dissimilar things. |
simile | comparison using 'like' or 'as' |
personification | animating objects that are inanimate |
dominant impression and purpose | main impression the author is trying to give; what was the reason for describing subject |
inductive reasoning | specific to general |
deductive reasoning | general to specific; major and minor premise |
appeal to ignorance | appeal based on whatever has not been proven false must be true and vice versa. |
argument from authority | convinces us to agree because it is form a person for authority or celebrity |
bandwagon appeals | convinces people to agree because everyone does it. |
begging the question | A fallacious form of argument in which someone assumes that parts (or all) of what the person claims to be proving are proven facts. |