Running Notes 29-32

Question 1

Provocative Diction

Answer 1

“:diction” is our choice of words. “Provocative Diction” is the purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate a provocative question that will frame the rhetorical argument

Question 2

Classification

Answer 2

action or process of classifying something according to shaved qualities of characteristics

Question 3

Understatement

Answer 3

decreasing the intensity of the meaning

Question 4

Colorful Diction

Answer 4

very purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone