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Description
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Technique
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Appeal to credibility. Represents the moral values credibility and attitudes that define behavior. In rhetoric, based on the speaker's credibility.
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Ethos
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Contrast between expectation and reality. An astronomer being afraid of the dark.
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Irony
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Short personal story "From my experience, I've had a tree explode in my face during the winter."
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Anecdote
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Grouping ideas is threes "She's pretty, kind, caring and so much more!"
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Rule of three/Triadic structure
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Deliberately using harsh language. "Come on, don't be a chicken!"
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Dysphemism
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Words that imitate sounds "Bang!"
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Onomatopoeia
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Repeated vowel sounds "Slow road home."
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Assonance
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Ending mirroes beginning The novel "Animal Farm" by George Orwell closes with the animals oppressed by a ruling class, the pigs. While the novel opens with oppression from Farmer Jones.
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Cyclical structure
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Words with strong connotations
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Loaded language
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Command sentence "Come here and sit."
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Imperative
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A direct comparison saying one thing is another, which is not literally aplicable. "Time is a thief."
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Metaphor
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Giving human qualities to non-human things. "The trees danced in the wind."
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Personification
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Ending with unresolved tension "He left into the forest, we have yet to recieve any info regarding his survival."
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Cliffhanger
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Repeated consonant sounds "Sometimes you have to look up at the sky and simply wait and wonder."
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Consonance
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A paragraph consisting of one sentence "Then, he started running at me."
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Single sentence paragraph
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Informal everyday language "Gonna", "finna", "y'all", "ain't", etc
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Colloquialism
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Understatement using negation. "The team didn't disappoint."
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Lilotes
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Many conjunctions used "It's always this and that and everything!"
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Polysyndeton
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Statement sentence "And hereby i declare war on our neighbouring country."
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Declarative
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A object representing a deeper idea/concept Doves representing peace.
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Symbolism
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Sentence showing strong emotion "Mom, dad, look! A pelican!"
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Exclamatory
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Matching end sounds Cat/hat, bat/pat, etc.
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Rhyme
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Using softer terms for something harsh. "She passed away"
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Euphemism
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Repeated "s" sounds "The sneaky snake slithered."
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Sibilance
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Words designed to provoke emotion "They are eating the dogs!"
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Emotive language
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Extreme exaggeration. "I've told you a million times!"
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Hyperbole
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Two contradicting words together. "Bittersweet."
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Oxymoron
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Hinting at future events. Grunkle Stan holding Ford's glasses in episode 16, "Carpet Diem".
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Foreshadowing
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Question not expecting an answer "You think I wanted thing's to end this way?"
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Rhetorical question
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visually descriptive writing appealing to the senses "The sour smell of smoke filled the room."
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Imagery
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Turning point in a poem " I thought the dark was empty, silent and still, but then it answered back. "
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Volta
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A comparison using "like" or "as". "She ran like the wind."
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Similie
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Repetition at the end of sentences "See no evil, hear no evil."
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Epiphora
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A deliberate pause in the middle of a line in a poem " The sky was burning - and nobody moved smoke climbed slowly upward. "
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Causura
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Repeated symbols or ideas. Repeating references to a dead character.
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Motif
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Speaking directly to reader "So you see, money isnt always everything."
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Direct address
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Weather reflecting tone or emotion, used to create a atmosphere or mirror a character's internal state. "The angry storm."
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Pathetic fallacy
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A reference to another text, event, religion, or myth. The amphibia episode "Wax museum" featuring Grunkle Stan and Soos from Gravity Falls.
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Allusion
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Appeal to emotion. A rhetorical technique defined as an appeal to the audiences emotions used to persuade by triggering emotions.
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Pathos
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Placing contrasting ideas side by side. "Better late than never."
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juxtaposition
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Appeal to logic. a rhetorical technique to capture an audiences sense of logic reason and intellect.
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Logos
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Sentence continues over line break in poetry. " I walked into the city because the city had finally become to loud to bear. "
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Enjambment
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Repetition of hard explosive sounds like p, b, and t. "Bang, back to back."
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Plosives
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Repetition at the beginning of sentences "We'll fight for our country, we'll die for our country, we'll win for our country!"
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Anaphora
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No conjuctions used. "I came, I saw, I conquered."
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Asyndeton
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Scene set in the past In the episode "A Tale of Two Stans." we see Ford's and Stan's childhood.
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Flashback
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Question sentence "Could you pass me the salt?"
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Interrogative
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Words starting with the same letter "The still, silver, silent, sea."
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Alliteration
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Brief sentence for impact "He stopped."
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Short sentence
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Long sentences to build tension "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner features a sentence over 1,200 words long.
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Long sentence
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