BIRT LIT ENGLISH COMPOST
Terms
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- Genus
- class, the known, one of the three elements of a logical definition
- differentia
- distinguuishing characteristics, one of three logical definition elements
- exposition
- deals with ideas, analytical
- organizational pattern of a descriptive composition
- spatial
- approximate definition is like an expository composition
- explains thesis
- definition by division arranged vertically
- outline
- has chronological arrangement
- narration
- typical organizational scheme for exposition
- logical
- principle of outlining demands the use of nouns or noun substitutes
- topic phrasing
- principle of outlining; similarity of language forms
- parallel phrasing
- key word in argumentative proposition
- persuasive
- Quintillian rhetoric 7 steps and functions
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a. Exordium- brings up discussion
b. Narration- gives history and reasons
c. Exposition- definitions
d. Proposition- THESIS
e. Confirmation- body
f. Refutation- discredits main idea
g. Peroration- concluding material - Quintillian
- (A.D. 35-100) ROMAN educator, rhetorician inventor of 7-step argumentative
- process and definition essays are expository
- they explain, inform, analyze, and interpret
- detail under a subtopic
- numbers
- subtopic
- capital letters
- the signifier for a main topic
- capital roman numerals
- why no intro, body or conclusion of outline
- the outline gives direction, not a rough draft, but a base
- precedes the actual outline of an essay
- thesis
- two or more topics always
- principle of division
- mode of composition concerns the truth or falsity of a proposition
- argumentative
- definition
- language form that explains an unknown in terms of a known
- 3 elements of logical definition
- term, genus, differentiae