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| 18490199 | hortatory | having or excercising power to advise | |
| 18490200 | didactic | designed or intended to teach | |
| 18490201 | ad hominem argument | appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect | |
| 18490202 | analogy | resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike | |
| 18490203 | antipathy | settled aversion or dislike | |
| 18490204 | appeals | the power of arousing a sympathetic response | |
| 18490205 | anaphora | repitition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect | |
| 18492106 | anthropomorphism | an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal caracteristics | |
| 18492107 | antecedent | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun | |
| 18492108 | antithesis | rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences | |
| 18492109 | apostrophe | the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically | |
| 18492110 | archaic diction | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses "thou" | |
| 18492111 | thesis | a position or proposition that a person (as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument | |
| 18492112 | juxtaposition | the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side | |
| 18492113 | irony | use of words to express something other than the opposite of the literal meaning | |
| 18492114 | motifs | a usually recurring salient thematic element | |
| 18492115 | syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion | |
| 18492116 | trope | a word or expression used in a figurative sense | |
| 18492117 | voice | the writers use of language and style; reflects your tone and attitude | |
| 18492361 | logos | the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument | |
| 18493724 | ethos | the moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion. | |
| 18493725 | elegiac | expressing sorrow for something now past | |
| 18493726 | imagery | mental images | |
| 18493727 | synaesthesia | Mixing of sensory information | |
| 18493728 | zeugma | the use of one word in a sentence to modify two other words in the sentence, typically in different ways.-EX-"Mr.Pickwick took his hat and his leave." | |
| 18493729 | diction | the writer's choice of words | |
| 18493730 | dialectic | logic through discussion | |
| 18493731 | asyndeton | omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words with clauses | |
| 18493732 | euphenism | the substitution of a relatively inoffensive term for one that is considered too harsh, unpleasant, or blunt | |
| 18493733 | subject | (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence | |
| 18493734 | synthesize | To form a new thing by combining parts form other things; deductive reasoning | |
| 18493735 | post-hoc fallacy | formualted after the fact; realting to or being the fallacy or arguing from temporal sequence to a casual relation | |
| 18493736 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | |
| 18493737 | tone | style or manner of expression in speaking or writing | |
| 18493738 | metonomy | the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | |
| 18494673 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | |
| 18494674 | antimetabole | "You can stake the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy" Repitition of words in succussive clauses in reverse grammatical order | |
| 18494675 | figurative language | Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things, like metaphor, simile, and personification. | |
| 18494676 | claim | to assert in the face of possible contradiction | |
| 18494677 | classify | to assign to a category | |
| 18494678 | colloquialism | a local or regional dialect expression | |
| 18494679 | anecdote | a short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident | |
| 18494680 | speaker | the voice used by an author to tell a story or speak a poem | |
| 18494681 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). | |
| 18494682 | rhetorical question | asked merely for effect with no answer expected | |
| 18494683 | rhetorical | used for mere style or effect. |
