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| Pedantic | a term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing; scholarly and academic |
| Persuasion | a form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion |
| Red Herring | When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue |
| Reduction ad Absurdum | Latin for "to reduce to the absurd." This is a technique useful to create a comic effect and is also an argumentative technique. It is considered a rhetorical fallacy because it reduces an argument to an either/or choice |
| Regionalism | an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot |
| Rhetorical Modes | exposition, description, narration, argumentation |
| Rhetorical Question | one that does not expect an explicit answer; it is used to pose an idea to be considered by the speaker or audience |
| Stereotype | a character who represents a trait that is usually attributed to a particular social or racial group and who lacks individuality; a conventional pattern, expression, or idea |
| Subjectivity | a personal presentation of events and characters, influenced by that author's feelings and opinions |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole |
| Syntatic Fluency | ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length |
| Syntatic Permutation | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved; they are often difficult for a reader to follow |
| Tricolon | sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses |
| Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration; it is a technique for developing irony or humor where one writes or says less than intended |
