RI.10.6 Academic Vocab Practice

the author’s view or position on a topic or idea; the perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, or 3rd person) 

• metaphor

• point of view

• purpose

• simile

the author’s reason for writing (to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or to explain)

• author's purpose

• parallelism

• metaphor

• irony

move forward in a purposeful way

• rhetoric

• advance

• rhetorical device

• irony

to compare two things that are not alike (does not use like or as)

• rhetoric

• metaphor

• personification

• tone

to compare two things using like or as

• personification

• fallacy

• simile

• rhetoric

to say something but mean the opposite of what you say

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• rhetoric

precise or professional language

• rhetoric

• technical language

• advance

• irony

art of using language effectively to persuade or influence an audience

• logos

• advance

• alliteration

• rhetoric

techniques writers and speakers use to effectively convey ideas and enhance arguments

• logos

• rhetorical devices

• egos

• logos

the writer’s or speaker’s position on a particular issue often in the form of a thesis statement or claim

• argument

• personification

• egos

• irony