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3 characterisics of Passive Voice
Object of action is subject
actor deemphazised
"To be" compunded with past participle
When to use passive voice
To demphazise the actor
provide variety
How to keep sentences short
Avoid redundancie
Syntactical Mistakes
Make sure the subject (singular) agrees with form of verb
Make sure all pronouns and nouns agree
Danglers
Parts of a sentence that don't connect with the core
Topic Titles
Academic - broad
Message titles
Direct - draw a conclusion
Epiplexis
Questions Meant to shame the reader
Hyphora
Ask a question then immediately answer it
Queclarative
Statement in question form
Erotesis
Rapid fire questions in queclarative form
Anaphora
repitions happen at beginning of something
epistrophe
Repitions at end of something
Kairos
Moment has arrived opportunity
Symploce
Anaphora and Epistrophe - repetitions at beginning and end
Triad
Three work phrasing
Climax
Steadily bulding up in intensity (AB BC CD)
Trilcon
Threee seperate clauses
Syntathremsus
piling up adjectives
Antithesis
Contrasting difffent things
Not this, but that
Chiasmus
Reversal of words in parrel phrasing (AB BA)
Polyproton
Repeating a work but in a different form
Choosy mothers choose Jiff
Syllepsis
One word used dual meaning
I called for a whore and and myself a cab
Logos
Logical
Pathos
Emotional
Ethos
Character - credibility
Forensic
Logos (past)
Demonstrative
Ethos - present
Deliberative
Future - Pathos, choice to make
AIDA
Attention
Interest
Desire
Action
Preposition
Define how things are in space, always relate to a subject
Gerunds
verbal nouns that end in -ing.
Author
rjfisher
ID
117535
Card Set
BCMU
Description
MIdterm Study
Updated
11/17/2011, 8:07:13 PM
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