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Rhetorical Vocab sheets # 1-4 for the final

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Point of View   The perspective the story is being told in.  
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First Person   Speaking with I. I am telling you the Story.  
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Second Person   When your using you to tell the story.  
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Third Person omniscient/all-knowing   Where the author tells you the thoughts of different characters, more then one.  
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Third Person Limited   Where the author only tells you about the thoughts of one character.  
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Allegory   A type of fiction, ckaraters symbollize different ideas or people from history. Animal Farm.  
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Homily   A serious talk or eassy. Religous advice.  
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Invective   A harsh brutle attack on someone with words.  
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Syllogism   A 3 part logical argument. First two statements make sense and are true so the third one must be true.  
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Catahresis   A very extreme metaphor, sometimes funny. Only uses the poetic half of the meatophor.  
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Inference   A conclucsion drawn on what is in the text.  
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Semantics   The study of the meaning of words.  
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Prose   Nonpoetic writing, sentences and paragraph form.  
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Pedantic   When your writing is overly scholorly or confusing.  
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Loose Sentence   Where the main clause comes first. I went to the store, to by light bulbs.  
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Periodic sentence   Main clause comes at the end. When you enter the house, you should watch out for the dog.  
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Phrase   A group of words that work together and only have either a subject or verb not both.  
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Clause   A group of words that work together gramatically that have a subject and a verb. All men are mortal.  
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Subordinate clause   A group of words with a subject and verb that are fragments.  
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Predicate nominative   He is an Austronant. A noun that comes after a linking verb that modifys the subject.  
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Predicate adjective   Where you have an adjective after the linking verb that modifies the subject. That resturant is first rate.  
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Subject Complement   The overall term for predict nominative and predicate adjectives.  
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Antecedent   The word that a pronoun is describing. Here's the letter. I found it this morning in the mailbox.  
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Mood   The emotions evocet in a certin peace of writing. A type of verb.  
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Indicative   Verb referses to something in reality.  
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Subjunctive   When your talking about hopes and dreams. If we win this we can do this.  
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Imperative   There is a comande going on.  
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Genre   A type of literature, comedy, tragedy, science fiction.  
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Generic conventions   Typical features or elements you will always find in a type of genre.  
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Tragedy   A major genre, a movement from order to chaos, the hero often has a flaw.  
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Hubris   excessive proudness  
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Catharsis   Aristotle's idea of pity and sadness brought up then got rid of towards the end of the play.  
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Peripeteia (Peripety)   A complete turn around in the life of someone poor to rich, bad to good.  
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Pathos   The suffering of characters. The techniques an author uses to show the suffering.  
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Bathos   Where we see characters suffer and we laugh.  
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Soliloquy   A direct speech to the audience.  
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Chorus   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   A restrictive society then it goes to one of freedom.  
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Satire   This makes fun of the authority or customs or laws of someplace.  
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History   A kind of play that celebrates an event of a nations past, to celebrate or as propaganda.  
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Romance   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   Principle and techniques for effective writing and speeches.  
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Rhetorical modes   The major types of writing.  
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Exposition   Writing that explains or analyzes.  
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Argumentation   writing that tries to convince or persuade your readers.  
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Description   Writing that vividly portrays a person, place, or thing.  
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Narration   A series of events and how they get their.  
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Suspension of Disbelief   The idea that you have to accept the certain world that the author is giving you. Spirit of the book.  
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Flat character   A character that does not change no inner contradictions. Also called Static character.  
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Round character   A character that is psychologically complex. Also called a Dynamic character. They change throughout the novel or story.  
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Dramatic Irony   We understand info or have received info that the characters don't have.  
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Denouement   The last few pages of a novel, the rap up of a plot.  
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Anastrophe   inverting the word order, rose the sin in the sky. Associated with Yoda.  
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Antithesis   two ideas, not words, that contrast side by side. We are slaves but you are free.  
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Chiasmus   She drove to merced. To Bakersfield drove he. Switching order of the elements in sentences that are close.  
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Ambiguity   multiply meanings of text or a sentence or a paragraph. I have a club?!  
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Aphorism   A short statement written by a known writer. A wise saying or insightful sentences, philosophical truth.  
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Colloquialism   The use of slang or informal writing.  
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Conceit   A metaphor that helps you structure the passage.  
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Extended Metaphor   Is not as powerful or as original but same thing as conceit.  
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Connotation   What you associate with the word.  
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Diction   A chose of language that the author uses.  
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Didactic   A language is used to teach something.  
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Euphemism   Where you change a word to something less harsh. Died went to a better place.  
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Hyperbole   An exaggeration. I will walk 1,000 miles for a candy bar.  
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Imagery   Sensory details used to paint a picture in the readers mind.  
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Parallelism   Words, phrases, clauses are arranged in similar ways. It was the best of times it was the worst of times.  
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Ambivalence   Having mixed emotions. Liking as well as not liking.  
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Ad Hominem   Attacking the person not the argument in a debate.  
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Sarcasm   Bitter language used to hurt someone.  
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Understatement   Where you don't give the full importance of the idea.  
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Wit   Intellectually amusing language.  
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Syntax   The order the Author chooses of his or her writing.  
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Synesthesia   Combining different senses. Taste the rainbow.  
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Paradox   An apparent contradictions, War's Peace.  
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Verisimiltude   Imitating real life.  
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Objective correlative   Something in the world that reflects the same state of mind of a character or person  
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Tone   Authors attitude towards the subject matter. Sympathetic/hostile  
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Atmosphere   Emotion that the tone invokes dispassionate.  
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Figurative language   Writing or speech meant to be imaginative not meant to be taken literally.  
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Metaphor   A comparison without using like or as.  
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simile   indirect comparison using like or as.  
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Alliteration   the same consanent sound starting each part or parts of a sentence or phrase.  
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Onomatopoeia   The word imitates the sound series of words. Pow Bam  
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Irony   Something that is believable but unexpected an eye doctor going blind.  
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Symbol   Something that represents something else like a dove.  
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Allusion   A reference outside of the story.  
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Synecdoche   Referring to something only by part of the thing all hands on deck instead of sailors.  
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Metonmy   A related idea that represents a thing like were Edison High - Edison High representing a team.  
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Oxymoron   two words side by side that are opposite. Jumbo Shrimp  
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Polsyndeton   A list of words that you have conjunctions in between. And .... And ...... And ......  
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Asyndeton   Comas separating a list ....., ....., ....,  
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Personification   Giving an ananament object human like characteristics.  
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Romantic Irony   When the author sets up a real world image and then the author breaks it.  
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Socratic Irony   A debate with someone acting silly asking questions that makes the person contradict themselves.  
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Apostrophe   Someone addressing someone that is not really there. Death I will out smart you.  
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Ellipsis   Leaving out a word or a group of words but the meaning is the same.  
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Anaphora   Repetition of a phrase or clause. Like I have a Dream in a speech.  
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Malapropism   Some Character is trying to use big words to sound smart but is using them wrong.  
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Spoonerism   Words that are close to each other but you switch the beginning constanents. The dog is Bob. The dog bs iob.  
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Litotes   Using a double negative instead of a direct point.  
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Assonance   The same vowel sound used in words that are close. The old ogre showed us the magic stone.  
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