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Rhetorical Vocab sheets # 1-4 for the final

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show The perspective the story is being told in.  
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First Person   show
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Second Person   show
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show Where the author tells you the thoughts of different characters, more then one.  
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show Where the author only tells you about the thoughts of one character.  
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Allegory   show
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Homily   show
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Invective   show
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Syllogism   show
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show A very extreme metaphor, sometimes funny. Only uses the poetic half of the meatophor.  
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Inference   show
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show The study of the meaning of words.  
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show Nonpoetic writing, sentences and paragraph form.  
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show When your writing is overly scholorly or confusing.  
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Loose Sentence   show
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Periodic sentence   show
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show A group of words that work together and only have either a subject or verb not both.  
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show A group of words that work together gramatically that have a subject and a verb. All men are mortal.  
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show A group of words with a subject and verb that are fragments.  
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Predicate nominative   show
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show Where you have an adjective after the linking verb that modifies the subject. That resturant is first rate.  
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show The overall term for predict nominative and predicate adjectives.  
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Antecedent   show
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Mood   show
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show Verb referses to something in reality.  
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Subjunctive   show
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Imperative   show
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show A type of literature, comedy, tragedy, science fiction.  
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Generic conventions   show
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show A major genre, a movement from order to chaos, the hero often has a flaw.  
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Hubris   show
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show Aristotle's idea of pity and sadness brought up then got rid of towards the end of the play.  
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show A complete turn around in the life of someone poor to rich, bad to good.  
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Pathos   show
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Bathos   show
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Soliloquy   show
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show A group of people who chant or sing to the audience. This acts as a narrator. They give background info.  
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Comedy   show
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show This makes fun of the authority or customs or laws of someplace.  
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show A kind of play that celebrates an event of a nations past, to celebrate or as propaganda.  
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show That there is some type of quest that a character goes on to bring something back to give to his people.  
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Rhetoric   show
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Rhetorical modes   show
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Exposition   show
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show writing that tries to convince or persuade your readers.  
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Description   show
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Narration   show
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Suspension of Disbelief   show
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show A character that does not change no inner contradictions. Also called Static character.  
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show A character that is psychologically complex. Also called a Dynamic character. They change throughout the novel or story.  
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show We understand info or have received info that the characters don't have.  
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Denouement   show
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Anastrophe   show
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show two ideas, not words, that contrast side by side. We are slaves but you are free.  
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Chiasmus   show
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Ambiguity   show
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show A short statement written by a known writer. A wise saying or insightful sentences, philosophical truth.  
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show The use of slang or informal writing.  
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show A metaphor that helps you structure the passage.  
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Extended Metaphor   show
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Connotation   show
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show A chose of language that the author uses.  
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Didactic   show
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show Where you change a word to something less harsh. Died went to a better place.  
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Hyperbole   show
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Imagery   show
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show Words, phrases, clauses are arranged in similar ways. It was the best of times it was the worst of times.  
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show Having mixed emotions. Liking as well as not liking.  
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Ad Hominem   show
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Sarcasm   show
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Understatement   show
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Wit   show
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Syntax   show
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show Combining different senses. Taste the rainbow.  
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show An apparent contradictions, War's Peace.  
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show Imitating real life.  
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Objective correlative   show
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Tone   show
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show Emotion that the tone invokes dispassionate.  
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show Writing or speech meant to be imaginative not meant to be taken literally.  
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Metaphor   show
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show indirect comparison using like or as.  
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show the same consanent sound starting each part or parts of a sentence or phrase.  
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Onomatopoeia   show
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Irony   show
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Symbol   show
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show A reference outside of the story.  
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Synecdoche   show
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Metonmy   show
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show two words side by side that are opposite. Jumbo Shrimp  
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Polsyndeton   show
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Asyndeton   show
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Personification   show
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Romantic Irony   show
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show A debate with someone acting silly asking questions that makes the person contradict themselves.  
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Apostrophe   show
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show Leaving out a word or a group of words but the meaning is the same.  
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show Repetition of a phrase or clause. Like I have a Dream in a speech.  
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Malapropism   show
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Spoonerism   show
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Litotes   show
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Assonance   show
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