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| Abstract | refers to ideas, conditions, and qualities we cannot directly perceive: (truth, love, courage, evil, wealth, poverty, progress) |
| Concrete | indicates things we can know with out senses: (boat, tree, car, bicycle, car, bread) |
| Allusion | refers to any person, place, or thing in fact, fiction, or legend that the writer believes is common knowledge |
| Analogy | a form of exposition that uses an extended comparison based on the like features of two unlike things: one familiar or easily understood, the other unfamiliar, abstract, or complicated |
| Analysis | a form of expository writing in which the writer separates a subject into its elements or parts |
| Division | another word for "analysis" |
| Anecdote | a brief narrative or retelling of a story or event |
| Rational Appeal | asks readers to use their intellects and their reasoning powers; it relies on established conventions of logic and evidence |
| Logos | Rational Appeal |
| Emotional Appeal | asks readers to respond out of their beliefs, values, or feelings; it inspires, affirms, frightens, angers |
| Pathos | Emotional Appeal |
| Ethical Appeal | asks readers to look favorably upon the writer; it stresses the writer's intelligence, competence, fairness, morality, and other trustworthy qualities |
| Ethos | Ethical Appeal |
| Argument | the principal mode of writing; its function is to convince readers |
| Audience | the readers of your argument |
| Cause and effect | a form of exposition in which a writer analyzes reasons for an action, event, or decisions, or analyzes its consequences |
| Chronological Order | the arrangement of events as they occur in time, first to last; most narratives and process analyses use chronological order |
| Claim | the proposition that an argument demonstrates |
| Thesis | another word for "claim" |
| Classification | a form of exposition in which a writer sorts out plural things (contact sports, students, kinds of music, etc.) into categories |
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English 11AP, English 10 PreAP, ACT Prep, Mythology |
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