Literary Terms

1. A statement of the number of reasons you will use to support your thesis statement.
3. 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.
5. In writing, it is the end of a text, prepared after the body of the text, and before the introduction.
7. A similarity of structure in a pair of related words, pharses it clauses.
9. A statement of the main points of an essay.
11. 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.
12. The first part of an essay, developed after the body and the conclusion are written.
13. The three fundamental activity of writing.

2. A question converted to a whether statement
3. The 3rd canon of rhetoric in which the writer selects appropriate words and forms to best express the ideas of a text.
4. Arrangement of words or letters appealing to the senses; figure if speech rhyme scheme.
6. The body of an essay.
8. The 1st canon of rhetoric during which the writer discovers material for the text.
10. The statement of the proposition defended by an essay.