Literary Terms

2. The canon of composition by which the author orders the materials gathered in the Invention canon in a manner suited to the type of essay.
3. The 3rd canon of rhetoric in which the writer selects appropriate words and forms to best express the ideas of a text.
5. A similarity of structure in a pair of related words, pharses it clauses.
8. Arrangement of words or letters appealing to the senses; figure if speech rhyme scheme.
11. The three fundamental activity of writing.
12. A statement of the main points of an essay.
13. The statement of the proposition defended by an essay.
14. The 1st canon of rhetoric during which the writer discovers material for the text.

1. In writing, it is the end of a text, prepared after the body of the text, and before the introduction.
4. The body of an essay.
6. A statement of the number of reasons you will use to support your thesis statement.
7. A question converted to a whether statement
9. The opening of an essay or speech, placed at the beginning of the introduction. It's purpose is to make the audience want to listen to the speech.
10. The first part of an essay, developed after the body and the conclusion are written.