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Words You Need To Know: Rhetoric: The Manipulation of Words For A Specific Purpose

This document defines many literary and rhetorical terms used for analyzing texts including types of tone, figurative language like metaphor and irony, elements of fiction such as character and conflict, and logical devices such as analogy and rhetorical questions. It provides definitions for over 100 terms to have a deeper understanding of the techniques and structures used in various forms of writing.

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Words You Need To Know: Rhetoric: The Manipulation of Words For A Specific Purpose

This document defines many literary and rhetorical terms used for analyzing texts including types of tone, figurative language like metaphor and irony, elements of fiction such as character and conflict, and logical devices such as analogy and rhetorical questions. It provides definitions for over 100 terms to have a deeper understanding of the techniques and structures used in various forms of writing.

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Words you need to know: Rhetoric: The Manipulation of Words For a Specific Purpose Thesis: Tone (all words

lead to tone): Mood: Diction: Denotation: Connotation: Subtext: Inference: Assonance: Consonance: Alliteration: Onomatopoeia: Imagery: Personification: Pathetic fallacy: Figurative Language Simile: Metaphor: Extended metaphor: Controlling metaphor: Conceit: Metonymy: Synecdoche: Irony: Verbal Irony: Dramatic Irony: Situational Irony: Oxymoron: Paradox: Pun: Hyperbole: Understatement: Euphemism: Antithesis: Satire: Parody: Sarcasm: Subtext: Zeugma: Ambiguity: Motif: Symbol: Pathos: Bathos: Allusion: Aphorism: Clich: Epigraph: Epitaph: Apostrophe: Colloquial: Dialect: Jargon: Eulogy: Homily: Oratory Didactic: Pedantic:

Elements of Fiction: Conflict: Characterization: Foil: Archetype: Point of attack: Exposition: Flashback: Epiphany: Foreshadowing: Anecdote: Climax: Anticlimax: Denouement: Setting Theme: Allegory: Parable: Structure: Syntax: Parallelism: Repetition: Anaphora: Chiasmus: Deductive Reasoning: Inductive Reasoning: Syllogism: Analogy: Rhetorical Question: Antithesis: Juxtaposition: Ad Hominem: Non Sequitur: Logical Fallacy: A Priori reasoning: Enumeration:

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