Unit 1: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. strategize
    devise a plan or course of action
  2. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
  3. transcript
    a written record of dictated or recorded speech
  4. claim
    an assertion that something is true or factual
  5. counterclaim
    an opinion offered in opposition to another position
  6. voice
    the distinctive quality or pitch of a person's speech
  7. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  8. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  9. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  10. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  11. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  12. juxtaposition
    the act of positioning close together
  13. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  14. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  15. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  16. prose
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  17. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  18. rhetorical
    relating to using language effectively
  19. logos
    a rhetorical appeal to the audience's reason or rationality
  20. ethos
    a rhetorical appeal that relies on the character or credibility of the speaker
  21. pathos
    a style that has the power to evoke feelings
Created on Tue Jan 12 08:32:26 EST 2021 (updated Tue Feb 02 11:12:26 EST 2021)

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