thesis statement - A single sentence that states a text's thesis, usually somewhere near the beginning. Ex: "Sweatt v. Painter advanced equality by ultimately improving African American educational rights, thus transforming American democracy for a better today." topic - A place where writers go to discover methods for proof and strategies for presentation of ideas. Ex: Gun control laws, the environment, or communism. - An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas. Ex: Pun or metonymy. voice - The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona. Ex: F. Scott Fitzgerald's voice is made up of mystery. writing process - The acts a writer goes through, often recursively, to complete a piece of writing: inventing, investigating, planning, drafting, consulting, revising, and editing. Ex: I used this to write my research paper. Rhetorical Terms - Syntax audience - The person or persons who listen to a spoken text or read a written one and are capable of responding to it. Ex: The audience of Michael Chabon's lecture at the Mondavi Center was composed of many Oak students. chiasmus - Inverted relationship between two elements in two parallel phrases. Ex: "To stop too fearful and too faint to go."
thesis statement - A single sentence that states a text's thesis, usually somewhere near the beginning. Ex: "Sweatt v. Painter advanced equality by ultimately improving African American educational rights, thus transforming American democracy for a better today." topic - A place where writers go to discover methods for proof and strategies for presentation of ideas. Ex: Gun control laws, the environment, or communism. - An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas. Ex: Pun or metonymy. voice - The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona. Ex: F. Scott Fitzgerald's voice is made up of mystery. writing process - The acts a writer goes through, often recursively, to complete a piece of writing: inventing, investigating, planning, drafting, consulting, revising, and editing. Ex: I used this to write my research paper. Rhetorical Terms - Syntax audience - The person or persons who listen to a spoken text or read a written one and are capable of responding to it. Ex: The audience of Michael Chabon's lecture at the Mondavi Center was composed of many Oak students. chiasmus - Inverted relationship between two elements in two parallel phrases. Ex: "To stop too fearful and too faint to go."
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