Rhetorical terms - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

UIL Literary Criticism Terms, Literary Criticism UIL Exam Questions and Answers 2024 Absolute - CORRECT ANSWER-a word free from limitations or qualifications ("best," "all," "unique," "perfect") Accismus - CORRECT ANSWER-a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refusesomething he or she desires Acronym - CORRECT ANSWER-a word formed from the initial letters of words and pronounced as a separate word Acrostic - CORRECT ANSWER-verse in which cer...

All AP Language and Composition 150 Terms allegory - Answer>> The rhetorical strategy of extending a metaphor through an entire narrative so that objects, persons, and actions in the text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text. "There is an obvious allegory in Avatar, the Navi stand for Native Americans." alliteration - Answer>> The repetition of an initial consonant sound, as in "a peck of pickled peppers." allusion - Answer>> A brief, usually indir...

COMMRC 0310 Final Exam Questions and Answers What marks goal-directed discourse? - Answer-careful selection of symbols, construction of appeals and engagement of listeners and readers as feeling and valuing beings as well as thinking beings. Are the appeals of rhetoric adapted, universal, or neutral appeals? - Answer-Adapted What are Gregg's six basic patterns of human perception and what do they mean? - Answer-1. The principle of edging or formulating boundaries. The brain perceives ...

COMMRC 0310 Midterm Study Guide (Bannon) Exam Questions And All Correct Answers How do Keith and Lundberg define rhetoric? - Answer -- "The study of producing discourses and interpreting how, when, and why discourses are persuasive" - How discourses get things done in our social world Who were the Sophists and why were they important? - Answer -- They were a group of Sicilians who taught the Athenians how to speak persuasively to navigate the courts and the senate. As they sold their wi...

UIL Literary Criticism Terms, Literary Criticism UIL Exam Questions and Answers 2024 Absolute - CORRECT ANSWER-a word free from limitations or qualifications ("best," "all," "unique," "perfect") Accismus - CORRECT ANSWER-a form of irony in which a person feigns indifference to or pretends to refusesomething he or she desires Acronym - CORRECT ANSWER-a word formed from the initial letters of words and pronounced as a separate word Acrostic - CORRECT ANSWER-verse in which cer...

types of organization - Chronological, Cause-Effect, Narrative, Spatial, Topical, AscendingDescending, Comparison-Contrast types of organization - (also known as text structures or rhetorical patterns) Sequential order - an orderly progression of events, ideas, or steps ex. first, second, third, before, next, finally Chronological order - an orderly progression of events based in time ex. same as sequential order transition words, plus the use of actual dates Order of importance - an arran...

Literary Terms for the AP English Literature and Composition Test Abstract - Answer>> Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to support its points. Academic - Answer>> Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis. Accent - Answer>> In poetry, the stressed portion of a word. Aesthetic - Answer>> Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste. Allegory - Answer>> A sto...

Corporal's Course (Leadership II) with Questions, Answers and Definitions of Terms 120+ terms Updated for 2024 (Best Studying Material) Corporal's Course (Leadership II) with Questions, Answers and Definitions of Terms 120+ terms Updated for 2024 (Best Studying Material) IMPORTANCE OF COACHING --------- Correct Answer --------- The Marine Corps' vision of leading is less concerned with rank, self-identity, recognition, or privilege than with the essence of our Corps —the individual Ma...

PACT Essential Academic Skills: Tests 701, 702, 703 Rated A+ Descriptive writing Writing used to create detailed descriptions of people, places, and things, and/or mood and atmosphere. Can stand alone or be part of a narrative Sensory details descriptions of sight, sound, touch, smell, taste transition words words that create a sense of time and organize events in the story narrative writing writing that tells a story or describes a specific person, place, or thing. Persuasive/arg...

Corporal's Course (Leadership II) with Questions, Answers and Definitions of Terms 120+ terms Updated for 2024 (Best Studying Material) Corporal's Course (Leadership II) with Questions, Answers and Definitions of Terms 120+ terms Updated for 2024 (Best Studying Material) IMPORTANCE OF COACHING --------- Correct Answer --------- The Marine Corps' vision of leading is less concerned with rank, self-identity, recognition, or privilege than with the essence of our Corps —the individual Ma...