Rhetorical Situation - the relationship between author/speaker, content, and audience (the most important people in the room), Tone - emotional word that describes how the writer voice wants to be heard, Diction - the right word in the right place at the right time, Loaded Language - connotative word choice, intentional to incite an emotional reaction, Exigence - What was so pressing or urgent that made the writer put pen to paper?, Purpose - What they hope to convince the audience of...what the writer hopes they believe or will do after reading/hearing, Syntax - sentence patterns that create memorable lines, Mode of Discourse - narrative, descriptive, compare/contrast, classification/division, informational, argumentation, Selection of Detail - Imagery and symbols, Anaphora - Repetition of words or phrases at the start of paragraphs or sentences, consecutively, Antithesis - opposition within sentences, often in parallel structure, Parallelism - repeated grammatical pattern of parts of speech, not necessarily with the same word choice, Juxtaposition - combining two elements side by side to draw their differences/similarities to the audience's attention, Rhetorical Question - A probing question where the speaker already anticipates the audience's reaction, Allusion - reference to the Bible, Greek Mythology, or Shakespeare, Appeals - Logos, Pathos, Ethos, Imagery - Sensory language to create detail and depth of understanding in the audience, Figurative Language - Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Apostrophe, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Understatement - Downplaying the severity of something to draw attention to it, Apostrophe - Talking to something/someone that isn't there,

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