This Week Notes

• Theme-The central message of a story
• Tone-The author attitude toward character, the topic, and audience
• Mood-Reader emotion
• Tone for Richard Cory; serious, depressed, and sad
• Truth- is that which can factory verified in the world.
• Validity- is a test of reason
• Syllogism---->logos ---> premise 1 Conclusion
•                                         premise 2 ^
• Argument is a search for truth
• Diction- The word choice an author uses to tell a story
• Syntax- The way the author put/organizes those word together
• When you express something it your feeling
• Thinking- The different between hearing and listening is thinking
• Transmitter---> medium---> receiver-->message
• The medium is the message
• Verbal-Text {5%}
• para verbal- quality of voice
• non verbal- Body language, facial
• which equals 100%