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  2. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence. There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical cohesion: based on structural content; lexical cohesion: based on lexical content and background knowledge.

  3. Repetition (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.

  4. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Exactly the same guidelines that hold for a descriptive or narrative essay can be used for the descriptive or narrative paragraph. That is, such a paragraph should be vivid, precise, and climactic, so that the details add up to something more than random observations. [9] Examples of narration include: Anecdote; Autobiography; Biography; Novel ...

  5. Coherence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Coherence in linguistics is what makes a text semantically meaningful. It is especially dealt with in text linguistics.Coherence is achieved through syntactic features such as the use of deictic, anaphoric and cataphoric elements or a logical tense structure, and semantic features such as presuppositions and implications connected to general world knowledge.

  6. Topic sentence - Wikipedia

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    It adds cohesion to an academic text and helps organize ideas not only within the paragraph but also the piece of writing as a whole. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As the topic sentence encapsulates the idea of the paragraph, serving as a sub-thesis, it remains general enough to cover the support given in the body paragraph while being more direct than the ...

  7. Lexical chain - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Cohesion is related to a set of words that belong together because of abstract or concrete relation. Coherence, on the other hand, is concerned with the actual meaning in the whole text. [1] Morris and Hirst [1] define that lexical chains make use of semantic context for interpreting words, concepts, and sentences. In contrast, lexical ...

  8. Rhetorical device - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.

  9. Anaphora (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, an anaphora (Greek: ἀναφορά, "carrying back") is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis. [2] In contrast, an epistrophe (or epiphora) is repeating words at the clauses' ends.