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English Language flashcards
One deck for each unit, with the terms and ideas you need to know cold. Flip a card, then say how well you knew it. Cards you find hard come back sooner, and ones you know well wait longer.
9 decks · 250 cards
Unit 1
Rhetorical Situation, Claims and Evidence
27 cards
- Rhetorical situation
- Writer (speaker)
- Audience
- Purpose
Unit 2
Audience, Appeals and Thesis
26 cards
- Beliefs
- Values
- Needs
- Common ground
Unit 3
Commentary, Line of Reasoning and Development
26 cards
- Analysis versus summary
- Explaining "how" and "why"
- Dropped quotation
- Evidence and Commentary row
Unit 4
Introductions, Conclusions and Thesis Structure
26 cards
- Introduction
- Hook
- Background information
- Opening scene
Unit 5
Body Paragraphs, Coherence and Word Choice
27 cards
- Body paragraph
- Paragraph development
- Moving the argument forward
- Coherence
Unit 6
Synthesis, Sources and Tone
30 cards
- Synthesizing sources
- Source-by-source summary
- Attributive tag
- Citing by source letter
Unit 7
Qualifying Claims and Building Sentences
30 cards
- Framing a complex issue
- Broader context
- Stakes
- Restating the thesis
Unit 8
Audience, Style and Sentence Choices
31 cards
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Extended metaphor
- Shared knowledge
Unit 9
Counterarguments: Concession, Rebuttal and Refutation
27 cards
- Ongoing conversation
- Entering the conversation
- Supporting source
- Complementary source