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In nonfiction, hen a writer suddenly drops from the dignified or important in thought or expression to the commonplace or trivial.
Often used for humorous effect.
In fiction, the author deliberately subdues the action at an expected highpoint to manipulate the reader’s emotions.
Example:"As he hesitated over the after-dinner drink, she intervened to say,
'Oh, let's have sherry rather than brandy by all means. When I sip sherry, it seems to me that I am transported from the everyday scenes by which I may, at that moment, be surrounded. The flavor, the aroma, bring to mind irresistibly-
-for what reason I know not--a kind of faerie bit of nature: a hilly field bathed in soft sunshine, a clump of trees in the middle distance, a small brook curving across the scene, nearly at my feet. This, together with the fancied drowsy sound of insects and distant lowing of cattle, brings to my mind a kind of warmth, peace, and serenity, a sort of dovetailing of the world into a beautiful entirety. Brandy, on the other hand, makes me burp."
(Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor. Houghton Mifflin, 1971) - See more at: http://fos.iloveindia.com/anticlimaxexamples.html#sthash.QmlVCzZp.dpuf

 A viewpoint opposite of the one expressed in the thesis.
 In argumentative writing the thesis must be debatable. If no antithesis exists, the thesis is not arguable.
 Example:“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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Rhetorical mode of cause and effect in which a writer uses a sequence of events to show how one causes another.
Example: Children’s basic biological functioning is determined by the kind of early care they receive.(Initial Factor) Children who don’t get proper early care have difficulties with emotional regulation, sleep and wake patterns, etc. (Mediating Factor) When these essential developmental stages are disrupted, it affects psychosocial functioning, interpersonal relationships, and competence later in life. (Final
Consequence)

 Ideas and events are arranged by the time sequence of their occurrence.
 Used usually in narrative and process essays.

 An element of the Toulmin logic that establishes the thesis of the essay.
 Synonymous to the “Conclusion” in a traditional argument.

 A strategy that moves from general premise (Major premise) to a specific conclusion.
 Opposite of Inductive reasoning.

 A strategy (usually weak) in which an author provides a remark or series of remarks that stray from the main point.

 Author formally gives credit to sources of borrowed words or ideas.

 Employs a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work to suggest the work’s theme.
 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” This is a quotation from Balzac given in The Godfather, a famous novel by Mario Puzo. The epigraph given in this novel presents the true picture of a gangster who earns a lot of wealth and wields much control over the lives of others. The Godfather is a true reflection of what its epigraph suggests.

 The ethical appeal to capitalize off the speaker’s credibility and evoke a moral response; excess can lead to patronizing the reader and sermonizing/

 Rhetorical strategy employing facts and opinions used to support a statement position or idea. Facts include examples, reasons, statistics, or other details.
Opinions include conclusions of experts or the writer’s personal experiences.

 Writer provides a concrete, specific illustration of a general point.

 Writer develops the meaning of a term over the course of a paragraph, essay, or book length work.

 A strategy in which actions return to an earlier time in a narrative.
 Used to make something in the present clearer.

 Narrator speaks from his/her own perspective, as a character in the narrative, and using pronouns associated with I.
 First Person allows a closer connection between narrator and audience.

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 Strategy of reasoning that ensures that the conclusion is never certain, only probable

 A strategy that moves from specific evidence to a general conclusion based on this evidence.
 Opposite of deductive.
 Used chiefly in science and history

 When a writer begins a narrative in the middle of the action

 When a writer places elements, characters, scenes, or objects side by side for the purpose of comparison and contrast

 Writer uses the logical appeal to evoke reason

 Presents a detached, factual picture in a plain, direct manner
 Pure objectivity is impossible

 Ideas are presented according to their relative complexity; usually from most complex to least

 Strategies are presented according to their relative significance; usually from most meaningful to least.

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 Writer uses a term that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains an acceptable and often profound meaning
Used for emphasis or to attract attention
Examples:
Your enemy’s friend is your enemy.
I am nobody.
“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.” –
George Bernard Shaw
Wise fool
Truth is honey which is bitter.
“I can resist anything but temptation.” Oscar Wilde

 Writer uses the emotional appeal to evoke empathy or other feeling

 Strategy in which a writer first makes apoint about one subject and follows it with a comparable point about another subject

 Used to determine from whose perspective a story is told
 First, Second and Third

 A strategy of deductive reasoning that is a statement of fact; can be divided in MAJOR and MINOR

 A strategy that enables readers to understand a process rather than perform it

 A strategy in which writer uses exacts words from a source enclosed in quotation marks
 Should be used to present a particularly memorable statement or to avoid a paraphrase that would change original meaning

 Strategy in which a writer uses to counter an opposing argument by revealing its weaknesses
 Looks for:
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Fallacies or logical flaws
Inadequate evidence irrelevance

 Strategy in which a question is asked for effect and
NOT to be answered

 Argument advocated by psychologist Carl Rogers, who rejected the adversarial approach of most arguments
 Finds areas of agreement to reduce conflict

 Narrator speaks to the reader’s own perspective using the pronouns associated with you

 Ideas are presented according to their location
 Left to right, front to back, near to far, etc.

 Writer attempts to produce an unembellished flow of thoughts in the human minds with its feelings, judgments, associations, and memories.

 Writer first discusses one subject in full and follows it with a comparable discussion of the entirety of another subject

 Strategy that contains value judgments or language that in involved
 Focuses on author's reaction to event
 Conveys not just a factual account of details but also their signficance

 Expresses the essays main idea

 Narrator speaks from the perspective of another
 Associated with he, she, it
 Omniscient – has godlike knowledge and can present thoughts of all characters
 Limited – presents thoughts of one character

 States the main idea of a body paragraph
 Usually the first sentence of the paragraph

 Strategy that uses argumentation that occurs in daily life

 A strategy in which words or expression link ideas in writing
 Words such as however, therefore, then, etc. can be transitions
 Can also be phrases, sentences, paragraphs or longer passages

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