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exigence
the trigger point or the cause of a āspeechā
occasion
the setting / surrounding context
persona
āMaskā.
(weird people go into saugnas)
polemic
argument style; harsh; no concessions
refutation
ārefuteā; denying opposing argumentās truth
rhetoric
persuasion techniques
semantics
branch linguistics studying how words came to be
SOAPS
subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker
syntax
word order
analogy
compares two things
anaphora
repeating same word/phrase at the start
(repeating āaā)
antimetabole
repeating words in reverse order
antithesis
opposite ideas next to each other
archaic diction
old word choice
archetype
recurring symbol/theme that represents human nature
(typical)
asyndeton
take away conjunctions (FANBOYS)
colloquialism
informal words better suited in a speech
cumulative sentence
main idea at beginning with building onto it
declarative sentence
declaring an idea
epistrophe
repeating a word at the end of a setence
hortative sentence
sentence urging you to do something but not MAKING you do it completely
imperitive sentences
IMPORTANT. you MUST do
inversion
inverting word order
juxtaposition
putting things next to each other to show similarities or differences
lexicon
a list of all the words used in a language or subject
motif
recurring idea that develops and explains the theme
oxymoron
paradoxical; āpeaceful warā āseriously funnyā
parallelism
similar sentence structure in related words; parallel
periodic sentence
main point withheld until the end; juice at end; starts with dependent clause; opposite of cumulative
synecdoche
part represents a whole
āCalifornia knows how to partyā āhands for hireā ānice wheels outsideā
vernacular
lingo of a region
zeugma
using two different words in two different ways