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Definition What is it? Definition - PPT Presentation

Tells what a term means and how it differs from other terms Creates a common language for the speaker and audience to understand one another Types Informal Definitions Personal explanations of what something is ID: 640939

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Slide1

Definition

What is it? Slide2

Definition

Tells

what a term means and how it differs from other

terms

Creates a common “language” for the speaker and audience to understand one another Slide3

Types

Informal Definitions

Personal explanations of what something is

Formal Definitions

Dictionary explanations of what something is

Explicit vs. Implicit

Extended

Definitions

Longer, complex definitions that require a paragraph, essay, or even a whole book Slide4

Patterns of Development

Definitions utilize a variety of patterns

Exemplification

- explaining/defining by giving examples

Description

-

explaining/defining

by describing its nature

Compare/Contrast

- explaining/defining by comparing/contrasting it with something else

Process Analysis

-

explaining/defining

by outlining the process through which it is created, works, etc.

Classification /Division

-

explaining/defining

by identifying/classifying the class to which something belongs Slide5

Rhetorical Devices

Connotation

- a non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning

Denotation

- the literal, strict definition of a word

Synonyms

- words with similar meanings

Negation

- telling what it is not

Enumeration

- listing its characteristics

Analogies

– comparisons identifying similarities between the term and something dissimilarSlide6

What is an Adventurer?

An adventurer is someone who is willing to leave the comfort and security of the status quo to seek new experiences. An adventurer is always open to new possibilities, new opportunities. He may be young or old, rich or poor, fit or ailing; whatever his description, he

lives

his life– deeply and now. Adventurers sail tall ships and climb mountains, write novels and solve impossible equations. They take leaves of absence from regular jobs to trek across country, live in grass huts, run hundred-mile races. They start new businesses, adopt hard-to-place children, discover cures, embrace hopeless causes. The adventurer is a risk taker. She is the person you read about who inspires you to tackle something difficult. She is the Bengali mother of six who grows food for a hundred, the Chilean boy who sells sandals made from rubber tires, your ninety-year-old tango-dancing grandmother.