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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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.