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42 Cards in this Set
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Style
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In discourse, it is one's unique form of rhetorical devices.
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Lexicon
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From where one's words are drawn/ Vocabulary
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Syntax
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Word arrangement within the sentence
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Anastrophe
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You place one word out of its usual place in a common sentence: ex-Gone is the night! Best when used with short words three places away
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Novelty
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A factor of attention when some objective of a stimulus is discrepant with expectation. Ex- $ale
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Emphasis
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The stimulus with successful novelty
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Paramessage
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What we conclude about something or someone because of the what it is said.
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Archaic
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Lexicon- Old Language
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Alliteration
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Lexicon- Repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence
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Life-Cycle Metaphors
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Abe- Lexicon- Metaphors about life cycle (conception, infancy, puberty, youth, middle age, old age, death, rebirth)
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Traductio
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Repetition of a word or phrase that is more than common (type/token ratio)
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Antistrophe/ Epistrophe
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Repetition of clauses or phrases that have parallel endings
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Anaphora/ Epanaphora
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Repetition of phrases or clauses with parallel beginnings
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Conplexio
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Repetition of phrases or clauses that use both anaphora and antistrophe
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Asyndeton
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(Literally No-Connector); to list without conjunction; a-grammatically
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Polysyndeton
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Kennedy- Syntax- to list with many conjunctions
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Brevitas
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Terseness- very short sentences
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Epizeuxis
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repetition of a word in direct succession
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Antithesis/ Antitheses
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Two words/phrases that mean the opposite put in one sentence
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Scala/ Gradatio/ Klimax
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To gradually increase in unarguably semantic importance
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Classic Antithesis
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2 words or phrases that mean opposite in the same sentence
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Antonym Antithesis
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2 words in the same sentence that are universally opposite words ex:Light/Dark.
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Oxy Moron Antithesis
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2 words that mean opposite right next to each other ex: Jumbo Shrimp
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Chiasmus/ Urbanitas
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AB BA Antithesis
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Homonym Antithesis
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Make an antithesis with homonyms; ONLY IN WRITTEN DISCOURSE
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Martial Metaphor
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Kennedy Style- War words metaphor
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Light/Dark Metaphor
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Kennedy Style- Light and dark words
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"Information" Theory
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For predictability, add words that give little or no extra information.
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Closure (clozure)
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Completeness- we all want it
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Socialization
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Nuture
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Periodic, Left Branching Sentences
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Introductory clauses, anything where the subject and verb are at the right of the sentence
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Metaphor
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a word or phrased used in a non-literal, unexpected way
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Metaphor Life Cycle
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Fresh -> Dead-> Literal
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Synecdoche
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Use the most prominent part to signify the whole; example- reffering to ships as "sails". "I see the sails coming!"
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Metonymy
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Using the tangible to represent the intangible
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Irony
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saying the opposite of what you mean
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Cognitive Dissonance
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Puzzlement- example of novelty that occurs when using metaphor
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Reinforcement
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Negative and Positive- both can be used in metaphor
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Contextual Qualifier
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Literal Words, helpful for metaphor deciphering IN CONTEXT
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Communal Qualifier
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In the community, a wide-spread agreement of the meaning of the expression
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Private Qualifier
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Something that makes the metaphor meaningful based on knowledge about one's personal self
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Archetypal
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Universal agreement about whether it's good or bad. Ex- light/dark, life cycle, disease, high/low
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