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level questions: Level 1

Question	Answer
a type, sort, kind, has to do with classification	Genre
significant/important concept/ideas of how to do things	Prestige abstraction
language about language	Metadiscourse
a form of language associated with speech more than writing	colloquialism
intro is knowledge filled: formal and scholarly	epistemic intro
intro is personal and less formal: can still be scholarly	anecdotal intro
draws interest into the paper (points to thesis)	allusive phrase (title)
informs reader what kind of paper and what paper is on	explanatory phrase (title)
quotation at the beginning of an essay (right after title)	epigraph
Looking at background info and history of topic	tradition of inquiry
Analogy for network of past sources (intertwined)	ecological analogy (tradition of inquiry)
give an idea to reader what discussion will be about	specific forecasting (intro)
narration, description, cause and effect, comparison, etc.	Methods of development (examples)
thesis: position on topic, and premise: evidence for claim	2 components of an argument
the dictionary definition	denotation (of a word)
implied cultural meaning	connotation (of a word)
(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate and can stand alone	Clause
an expression that doesn't include a subject and predicate and cannot stand alone	Phrase
FANBOYS: linking words (you can join 2 sentences together)	grammatical coordination
taking a sentence and adding something at the beginning to make it a fragment that needs another clause	grammatical subordination
citation/reference	documentation
Turning the literal meaning of the words into something else	Tropes
using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')	Polysyndeton
the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used (she drank rum, vodka, tequila)	Asyndeton
exposition (teaching), logos, ethos, pathos	4 parts of persuasion
the rational appeal (logic, reasoning)	Logos
ethical appeal (how you come across in writing)	Ethos
the emotional appeal (an appeal to feelings)	Pathos
a formal expression of praise (reference letter)	Encomium
manner of speech peculiar to or characteristic of a particular person or class (inappropriate in formal writing)	Dialect
an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh ("passed away" instead of "died")	Euphemism
subject and verb pushed to end of the sentence	Periodic sentence
subject and verb in beginning of the sentence	Cumulative sentence
used after a period and followed with a comma (however, similarly, also, etc.)	conjunctive adverbs
questioning knowledge (how do we know what we know?)	epistemology
Links sub to a sub complement ("Kevin is a millionaire")	Linking verbs
noun affected by action of verb ("the mechanic greased the axle")	Transitive verbs
a verb that does not take an object ("Max will sleep for 8 hours")	Intransitive verbs
modify nouns and are set off with commas ("Mill, a British philosopher, wrote...")	Appositives
use the "to" form of verb	Infinitive phrases (verbal phrases)
use of present/past participle	Participial phrases (verbal phrases)
use of present participle with 'ing'	Gerund phrases (verbal phrases)
restates conclusion rather than offering a real premise	Circular reasoning
no logical relation between connected ideas	Non sequitur
attacks based on person that is unrelevant info based on argument	Ad hominem
argument from authority (Caleb has this, so I'm gonna get it)	Pro hominem
argument based only on emotion	Appeal to pity
jumping to a conclusion	hasty generalization
oversimplification	Reductive fallacy
coincidence that we see as causation	Post hoc fallacy