Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis 

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Style contributes
________ to the meaning, purpose and effect of a text, whether it's written oral or visual.
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satire
ridicule of folly or to expose to correct an incident, the rules of united airlines fight or flight club
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diction
Speaker's choice of words
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syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language; usually the speaker decides
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tone
Tone: the feeling the speaker wants to invoke on the audience from his text
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Mood
feeling created by the speaker's work
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metaphor
comparison without using the words like or as
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simile
comparison that uses the words like or as.
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personification
a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human emotions and feelings
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hyperbole
a figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to create a heightened effect
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Parrallelism
repetition of grammatical structure to keep a fluid read for the audience
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juxtaposition
placing elements together to represent a comparison or contrast
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antithesis
the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, most commonly in parallel structure
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compound sentence
a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
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complex sentence
a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.
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periodic sentence
a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause
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cumulative sentence
a sentence that completes its main clause/thought at the beginning and then adds to it
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imperative sentence
a sentence used for commands or requests
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examples of sentence types
compound, complex, imperative, cumulative
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syntax interesting constructions
parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, and sentence types