Rhetorical Strategies- 1 Flashcards

(15 cards)

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antanaclasis

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repetition of a word in two different senses (If we do not hang together, we will hang separately)

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anticipated objection/procatalepsis

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addresses and answer objections

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antimetabole

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reverse the order of repeated words (When the GOING gets TOUGH, the TOUGH gets GOING)

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apologist

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a person or character who makes a case for some controversial position

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apology

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an elaborate statement justifying some controversial position

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cloze test

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a test of reading ability that requires a person to fill in missing words in a text

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compound statement

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two or more nouns constitute the grammatical subject of a clause (the DOG AND CAT SCURRIED away from the car)

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epanalepsis

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begins and end the same way (Blood hath brought blood)

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compound sentence

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has two or more independent clauses

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efferent reading

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reading to gain information from a text

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enthymeme

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logical reasoning with one premise left unstated

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stock setting

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stereotypical time and place settings that let readers know a text’s genre immediately

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anadiplosis

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word chain

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14
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anthimeria

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substitution of one part of speech for another

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appositive

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a noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines its meaning

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