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**What is culture?
1. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group 2. | the total of the inherited ideas, beliefs, values, and knowledge, which constitute the shared bases of social action | 3. | the total range of activities and ideas of a group of people with shared traditions, which are transmitted and reinforced by members of the group: the Mayan culture | 4. | the artistic and social pursuits, expression, and tastes valued by a society or class, as in the arts, manners, dress, etc | 5. | the attitudes, feelings, values, and behavior that characterize and inform society as a whole or any social group within it |
6. The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next.
** Rhetorical Devices Examples
1) Allegory: Fables are allegories—they are stories with an underlying message/moral
* The Ant and the Grasshopper (Aesop’s Fable)
In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.
"Why not come and chat with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling in that way?"
"I am helping to lay up food for the winter," said the Ant, "and recommend you to do the same."
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; we have got plenty of food at present." But the Ant went on its way and continued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had no food and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the ants distributing every day corn and grain from the stores they had collected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew: It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.
*The Shepherd’s Boy
There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep at the

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