Rhetorical Appeals 2 - Statistics

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The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion attitude, or color.	Denotation	100%
Related to style, ----- refers to the writer’s word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.	Diction	100%
----- works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles.	Didactic	100%
-----s are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. The ----- may be used to adhere to standards of social or political correctness or to add humor or ironic understatement.	Euphemism	100%
Figure of emphasis in which a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal speech, is used to lend emphasis to the words on either side of the -----.	Expletive	100%
In essays, one of the four chief types of composition, the others being argumentation, description, and narration. The purpose of ----- is to explain something. In drama, the ----- is the introductory material, which creates the tone, gives the setting, and introduces the characters and conflict.	Exposition	100%
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout the work.	Extended metaphor	100%
A device used to produce figurate language. Many compare dissimilar things. ----- include apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement.	Figure of speech	100%
This term describes traditions for each genre. These conventions help to define each genre; for example, they differentiate an essay and journalistic writing or an autobiography and political writing.	Generic conventions	100%
The major category into which a literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. However, ----- is a flexible term; within these broad boundaries exist many subdivisions that are often called -----s themselves.	Genre	100%
This term literally means “sermon,” but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.	Homily	100%
A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. -----s often have a comic effect; however, a serious effect is also possible. Often, ----- produces irony.	Hyperbole	100%
The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. On a physical level, ----- uses terms related to the five senses; we refer to visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory -----. On a broader and deeper level, however, one ----- can represent more than one thing.	Imagery	100%
repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase: word/phrase X, . . ., word/phrase X.	Diacope	0%
Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something.	Enumeratio	0%
Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.	Figurative language	0%
Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker; raising and responding to one’s own question(s).	Hypophora	0%

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