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Anecdote

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short simple narrative of an incident, often used for humor or to make a point

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Argumentation

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writing that tries to prove a point or idea by reasoned arguments; persuasive is a form

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Allegory

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extended narrative of incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities in which second meaning is underneath story

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Annotation

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explanatory notes added to text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data

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Antithesis

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presentation of 2 contrasting images. Ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. Ex- to be or to not to be

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Rhetoric

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art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially figure of speech and compositional techniques

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Colloquialism

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word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but is often inappropriate in formal writing. ex- y’all

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Connotation

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words suggesting implied meaning in readers mind

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Consonance

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Repetition of identical consonant sounds within 2 or more words in close proximity. Ex- boot/beat/best or compound word like fulfill

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Caricature

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Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of persons appearance or facet of personality

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Coherence

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Quality of a piece of writing in which all parts contribute to development of central idea/theme or organizing principle

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Aphorism

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Short, often witty statement of a principle or truth about life. Ex- early bird gets the worm

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Apostrophe

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Usually in poetry, the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction

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Cacophony

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Also called dissonance. Hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose. Opposite of euphony

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Enumeration

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Rhetorical device used for listing details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. Is a type of amplification or division in which subject is further distributed into components or parts. Ex - don’t copy into notes… just read it

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Analogy

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Comparison in which idea or thing is compared to another living thing that is quite different from it. Aims to explain idea or thing to something familiar

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Parallelism

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Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same;similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. Ex- like father, like son

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Allusion

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Brief and indirect reference to person, place, thing , or historical, culture, literary, and political significance. Doesn’t describe in detail and writer expects reader to know the reference

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Metonymy

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Figure is speech that replaces the name of thing with something else closely associated. Don’t confuse with metaphors as don’t create comparisons.

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Anaphora

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Deliberate repition of first part of a sentence in order to achieve an effect

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Epistrophe

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Same word returns at the end of each sentence or clause

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Asyndeton

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Used to intentionally eliminate conjunctions yet maintain grammatical accuracy

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Polysydeton

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Makes use of coordinating conjunctions which are used to join successful words phrases and clauses in such a way that these conjunctions are even used when they might have been omitted

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Synecdoche

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Part of something represents the whole or a whole to represent a part. Similar to metonymy

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Tone

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Attitude of writer toward subject of audience

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Process Analysis

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Step be step breakdown of the phases of a process. To convey each phase of thinking

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Syntax

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Set of rules in a language. In English how we choose to arrange our words

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Warrant

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Glue that holds argument together. Links evidence to claim.