Vocabulary 3 2
Terms
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- attitude
- the author's tone in writing
- language
- describes the characteristics of the overall use of language
- details
- facts included or omitted
- rhetorical strategy
- plan or method whereby an essay is developed to be effective
- occasion
- where or why an author has begun to write
- audience
- the author's intended reader or listener
- voice
- the stance the author takes in offering ideas (how he says what is said)
- images
- vivid appeals to understand through the sensed (word pictures)
- diction
- the work choices the author uses (effective selection)
- syllogism
- a rhetorical discourse using major and minor premises to prove a conclusion
- tone
- understand of the author's attitude toward the subject and audience
- syntax
- the way words are arranged in a sentence and how that affects meaning
- process analysis
- step-by-step explanations
- exemplification
- using examples to illustrate
- exposition
- writing that exposes ideas to readers through explaining and defining
- rhetoric
- the art of using language persuasively or effectively
- enthymeme
- writer gives primary premise and assumes reader will supply missing knowledge to achieve the conclusion