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