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Glossary Terms Flashcards

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Reference to a real or fictional person, place, object, or event

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Allusion

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Words that refers to an Idea, quality, attitude

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Abstract Words

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Method of development where a subject is broken down then put back together into a new whole

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Analysis

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Brief narrative that recounts an episode from a person’s experience

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Anecdote

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Appeals to reason and emotions to win an agreement with a claim or compel action

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Argument

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Debatable claim about a subject; central idea of an argument

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Assertion/Proposition

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Group of readers to whom a particular work is intended

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Audience

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Method of development in which occurrences are divided into their elements to find what made an event happen and the consequences were

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Cause and effect analysis

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Pattern of organization in which events are arranged as they occurred over time

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Chronological order

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Method of development in which the members of a group are sorted into classes or subgroups according to shared characteristics

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Classification

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Overused expression that had become tired from overuse and therefore deadens rather than enlivens writing

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Cliché

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Pattern of organization in which elements are arranged in order of increasing importance or drama

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Climactic order

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Quality of effective writing that comes from clear, logical connections among all parts so the reader can follow the writer’s thought process without difficulty

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Coherence

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Informal words and expressions

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Colloquial language

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Method of development in which similarities and differences between subjects are examined

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Comparison and contrast

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Associations or suggestions that go beyond its literal meaning; emotional meaning

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Connotation

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Literal meaning; dictionary definition

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Denotation

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Reading that looks beneath the surface of a work, seeking to uncover both its substance and the writer’s interpretation of the substance

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Critical reading

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Method of reasoning that moves from general to specific

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Deductive reasoning

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Explanation of the meaning of a word

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Definition

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Form of writing that conveys perceptions of the senses to make something vivid and concrete

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Description

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Choice of words

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Diction

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Words that are short-lived and that may not be understood by all readers

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Slang

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Appeals to readers emotions

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Emotional appeal (Pathos)

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Appeal to character

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Ethical appeal (Ethos)

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Something that supports any general statement or claim

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Evidence

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Instance or representative of a general group or abstract concept or quality

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Example

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Form of writing that explains or informs

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Exposition

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Flaws in reasoning

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Fallacies

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Expressions that imply meanings beyond or different from their literal meanings in order to achieve vividness or force

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Figures of speech

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Technique for discovering ideas for writing; writing for a fixed amount of time without stopping to reread or edit

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Freewriting

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Statement about a group or class based on some or all of its members

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Generalization

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Deliberate overstatement or exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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Verbal representation of sensory experience

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Image

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Method of reasoning that moves from the particular to the general

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Inductive reasoning

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Use of words that suggests a meaning different from their literal meaning

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Irony

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Figure of speech that compares two unlike things by saying that one is the other

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Metaphor

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Form of writing that tells a story, relating a sequence of events

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Narraration

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Use of similar grammatical forms for ideas of equal inportance

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Parallelism

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Figure if speech that gives human qualities to things or abstractions

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Personification

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Position of the writer in relation to the subject

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Point of View

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Generalization or assumption on which an argument is based

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Premise

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Method of development in which a sequence of actions with a specified result is divided into its component steps

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Process analysis

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Reason for writing; goal the writer wants to achieve

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Purpose

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Appeal to readers’ rational faculties

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Rational Appeal

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Careful use of the same words or close parallels to clarify meaning and tie sentences together

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Repetition and restatement

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Elegant language; pretentious or hollow language

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Rhetoric

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Combination of wit and criticism to mock or condemn human foolishness or evil

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Satire

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Figure of speech that equates two unlike things using like or as

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Simile

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Pattern of organization that views an object, scene, or person by paralleling the way we normally scan things

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Spatial Organization

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The way something is said, as opposed to what is said

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Style

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Basic form of deductive reasoning in which a conclusion derives necessarily from proven or accepted premises

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Syllogism

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Something that represents an abstract quality or concept

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Symbol

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Main idea of a piece of writing

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Thesis

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Attitude toward the subject; expressed through words and sentence structure

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Tone

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Links between sentences and paragraphs that relate ideas and thus contribute to clarity and smoothness

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Transitions

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Quality of effective writing that occurs when all parts relate to the main idea and contribute to the writer’s purpose

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Unity

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Refers to an Object, person, place

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Concrete Words

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