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Analyzing word choice, connotation, sentence structure, and their rhetorical effects
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Study how authors' stylistic choices create rhetorical effects: diction (formal, informal, colloquial, technical), connotation vs denotation, abstract vs concrete language, syntax (sentence length, structure, types), periodic vs cumulative sentences, and active vs passive voice.
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