writing test vocab #1
Terms
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copy deck
- adlibbing
- speaking or performing spontaneously without preperation
- allusion
- a brief casual reference to a person, place or event
- ambiguity
- not enough clarity
- analogy
- use of a comparison to new knowledge with something already known
- analysis
- breaking something complex into smaller part, finding relations and gaining a better understanding of the topic as a whole
- assertion
- a claim or statement of belief,
- assumption
- a claim accepted without proof or other support
- audience
- intended recepient of communication
- cliche'
- a figure of speech or graphic expression that has lost it's capacity to communicate effectively b/c of overuse
- connotation
- the associations and feelings associated with a word or phrase used in its literal meaning
- context
- the part of the text or statement that surrounds words-helps find meaning
- cropping
- make smaller by cutting the photo so some of the original photo is missing
- deduction
- in logic, a form of argument in which if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true as well
- diction
- stylistic choice of words and syntax