Category: Education
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
English (EN) An expletive is when one word (or possibly a short phrase) is put into a sentence for emphasis. Often is is offset by commas and is not needed for the sentence to make sense. The only purpose is to ...
Enumeratio is the concept of detailing specific parts. Rather than just saying, "The King is bad," the writer will list of specifically the different ways that he has been bad.
This is a fancy term to say that a specific example is being used. These are very common throughout the prose in the American Revolution.
The American Revolution rhetoric is about big ideas. As such, concrete language is avoided and more abstract language is used. Words like: freedom, liberty, etc. are used rather than the more ...
Denotation is NOT a method of rhetoric, rather it is something that must be taken into account when reading older writings. The English language has changed, as such something the denotation ...
When reading American Revolution rhetoric, it is important to consider the purpose. While in most cases it is merely, "to encourage people to revolt" quite often discovering the specific purpose will ...
