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| satire | a form of writing that employs wit to attack folly, the purpose is not merely to entertain, but to bring about enlightenment-even reform |
| sentimentality | a quality sometimes found in writing that fails to communicate, such writing calls for an extreme emotional response on the part of an audience |
| strategy | refers to whatever means a writer employs to write effectively |
| style | the distinctive manner in which a writer writes; it may be seen especially in the writer's choice of words and sentence structure |
| suspense | the pleasurable expectation or anxiety the reader feels that keeps him/her reading a story |
| syllogism | the name for a three-step form of reasoning that employs deduction |
| symbol | the name for a visible object or action that suggests some further meaning |
| syntax | the grammatical structure of a sentence, the arrangement of words, phrases, clauses |
| thesis | The central idea in a work of writing, to which everything else in the work refers. In some way, each sentence and paragraph in an effective essay serves to support the thesis and to make it clear and explicit. |
| tone | the way a writer expresses his or her regard for subject, audience, or self |
| topic sentence | the name for a statement of the central idea in a paragraph |
| transitions | words, phrases, sentences, or even paragraphs that relate ideas |
| unity | The quality of good writing in which all parts relate to the thesis. In a unified essay, all words, sentences, and paragraphs support the single central idea. |
| voice | the sense of the author's character, personality, and attitude that comes through the words |
| warrant | the thinking or assumption that leads from data to claim |
| balanced sentence | a construction in which both halves of the sentence are about the same length and importance |
| freight-train sentence | consists of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjuctions |
| inverted sentence | characterized by the reversal of a normal word order; the modifier or verb comes first in the sentence |
| parallel | sentence construction which places in close proximity two or more equal grammatical constructions |
| anaphora | repition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row; a deliberate form of repetition which makes writer's point more coherent |
