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| 89613138 | Ad hominem | The fallacy of attacking a person rather than his argument. Comes from the Latin phrase meaning, "to the man." | |
| 89613139 | Allegory | A fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts. An extended metaphor, in which it may personify abstract ideas. | |
| 89613140 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence. | |
| 89613141 | Allusion | A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art | |
| 89613142 | Ambiguity | The characteristic of being unclear, uncertain, indefinite, subject to more than one interpretation. | |
| 89613143 | Anachronism | Old and Outdated | |
| 89613144 | Anadiplosis | A technique in which the word at the end is the same as the start for the next sentence. | |
| 89613145 | Analogy | Asks a reader to think about the correspondence or resemblance between two things that are essentially different. A form of comparison in which the writer explains something unfamiliar by comparing it to something familiar. | |
| 89613146 | Analytical Reading | Requires reading actively. Requires paying close attention to both the content and the structure of the text. | |
| 89613147 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | |
| 89613148 | Anathema | Something that is very distasteful. | |
| 89613149 | Anecdote | A personal story to illustrate a point. | |
| 89613150 | Annotation | The act of putting in marginal thought | |
| 89613151 | Antagonist | One who opposes the main character | |
| 89613152 | Antecedent | The word a pronoun replaces. Can come before or after the pronoun. | |
| 89613153 | Anthropomorphism | Giving an animal the traits of a human. | |
| 89613154 | Antimetabole | Repetition of a phrase in reversed order. | |
| 89613155 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel constriction | |
| 89613156 | Aphorism | A sharp saying. If used enough, it becomes a Cliche | |
| 89613157 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker. | |
| 89613158 | Apotheosis | Occurs in literature when a character or a thing is elevated to such a high status that it appears godlike. | |
| 89613159 | Appositive | A word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity. Usually set off by commas. | |
| 89613160 | Archaic Diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | |
| 89613161 | Archetype | Stock element, stays the same. It is usually determined by culture. Ex. Wicked Stepmom | |
| 89613162 | Argument | To attept to convince the reader to: -agree with a point of view -make a given decision -pursue a particular course of action One of the four basic types of prose. | |
| 89613163 | Assertion | The thesis, claim, or proposition that a writer puts forward in an argument. | |
| 89613164 | Assonance | Repetition of initial vowel sounds. | |
| 89613165 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. It tightens the image and quickens the speed. It may also produce a sense of overwhelming. | |
| 89613166 | Atmosphere | The emotional feeling or mood of a place, scene, or event. | |
| 89613167 | Attitude | Describes the feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea. | |
| 89613168 | Audience | Whom the writer is addressing. | |
| 89613169 | Balanced Sentence | Grammatically balanced. Antithesis is usually involved. Ex. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. | |
| 89613170 | Bathos | Something that is tricvial or unintentionally anticlimactic. | |
| 89613171 | Beginning | The sentence, group of sentences, or section that introduces an essay. | |
| 89613173 | Cause and Effect Analysis | One of the types of exposition, answers the question "why?" explains the reasons for an occurrence or the consequences of an action. | |
| 89613174 | Claim | The thesis or proposition put forth in an argument | |
| 89613175 | Classification | One of the types of exposition; it is when the writer arranges and sorts people, places, or things into categories according to their differing characteristics, thus making them more manageable for the writer and more understandable for the reader. | |
| 89613179 | Cliche | Highly overused expression. Created through truth, but the overuse of it robbed it of complexity and meaning. | |
| 89613180 | Coinage | Creating new words | |
| 89613181 | Colloquial | Localized, informal slang. | |
| 89613182 | Comparison and Contrast | One of the types of exposition. The writer points out the similarities ond differences between two or more subjects in the same class or category. | |
| 89613183 | Conclusion | The sentence or group of sentences that brings an essay to closure | |
| 89613184 | Concrete Word | Names a specific object, person, place, or action that can be perceived by the senses. | |
| 89613185 | Connotation | The emotional definition or suggested meaning of a word. | |
| 89613186 | Contrast | Explains what a thing is by showing what it is not | |
| 89613187 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on | |
| 89613188 | Denotation | the dictionary meaning or a word | |
| 89613189 | Descriptive | Details | |
| 89613190 | Devices | Tools. The House. | |
| 89613191 | Diction | An author's word choice | |
| 89613192 | Didactic | Teacher like or parable like tone. | |
| 89613193 | Dirge | Musical, mournfu lsong or expression | |
| 89613194 | Dramatic Irony | Found mostly in plays, kit is an element or convention of drama. | |
| 89613195 | Dystopia | A nightmarish, hellish place | |
| 89613196 | Either/ or Reasoning | A black or white type of thinking, where there are only absolutes. | |
| 89613197 | Elegy | Poem of mourning | |
| 89613198 | Ellipsis | Omission of words, often signified by three dots (...) | |
| 89613199 | Elliptical Sentence | When a portion of it is gone, but the whole still makes sense | |
| 89613200 | Empathy vs. Sympathy | To feel true pain and understanding for and to intellectually simulate another pain, respectively. The latter may have an air of superiority. | |
| 89613201 | End- Stop Rhyme | Poetry in which punctuation is at the end. | |
| 89613202 | Epanalepsis | Words start and end a sentence. Ex. Blood will have blood. | |
| 89613203 | Epic | Long poem about a hero | |
| 89613204 | Epiphany | Sudden awakening or realization | |
| 89613205 | Epistle | A letter or letters | |
| 89613206 | Epitaph | Inscription on gravestones. Usually two lines long and describes someone. | |
| 89613207 | Epithet | Links two words together to characterize someone. Ex. "Richard the Lion-Hearted" | |
| 89613208 | Eulogy | Speech in praise of someone's life. Can have poetic qualities that make it like an elegy. | |
| 89613209 | Euphemism | A soft way of putting a harsh fact. | |
| 89613210 | Euphonious | Very soft sounding | |
| 89613211 | Explication | Breaking down something into part to explain how the argument is built. | |
| 89613212 | Expository | Used to explain or reveal | |
| 89613213 | Fable | A short story using animals or the like that gives a preachy and moralistic theme. | |
| 89613214 | Generic Conventions | What is common to a genre. | |
| 89613215 | Genres | Type of form of literature, music, ect. | |
| 89613216 | Homily | An instructional, moralistic, inspiring sermon. It is lighter than an actual sermon | |
| 89613217 | Hortative Sentence | Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action | |
| 89613218 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration that is powerful and purposeful | |
| 89613219 | Idiom | Expression that is localized to geography, region, groups, ect. It is considered colloquial. | |
| 89613220 | Imagery | A term that incorporates all sensory perceptions. Can be Allusions, Similes, Metaphors, or Motion | |
| 89613221 | Imperative Sentence | sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat | |
| 89613222 | Inductive Reasoning | Reasoning in which ideas come at the end. Global commentary and periodic sentences are inductive | |
| 89613223 | Inference | To gain meaning from something that is not directly said | |
| 89613224 | Interrupted Sentence | A sentence that has a thrown in part usually with dashes (- - ) | |
| 89613225 | Invective | A put down or one liner. Usually harsh, angry, profane, ect. | |
| 89613226 | Inversion | Reversing the order of words in a sentence or reversing entire sentences. (variation of the subject-verb-object order) It is used to create an impact when providing information, making a point, ect. | |
| 89613227 | Irony | The use of reversal, when what is said in a message is in conflict with the truth, character, ect. | |
| 89613228 | Jargon | Vocabulary that is limited to a specific occupation | |
| 89613229 | Juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | |
| 89613230 | Lexicon | Level of language register | |
| 89613231 | Limited Omniscience POV | Almost all knowing narrator | |
| 89613232 | Litotes | A deliberate understatement that serves as a statement. Ex. That was no small task. | |
| 89613233 | Logical Fallacy | Way of supporting facts that are not logically sound. | |
| 89613234 | Loose Sentence | The topic or point is in the beginning. | |
| 89613235 | Lyric | Verse that focuses in an idea or emotion. It is not a narrative. | |
| 89613236 | Malapropism | Word similar to another that is mistakenly substituted . | |
| 89613237 | Meiosis | Understatement to belittle or put down. Ex.: A lawyer defending a schoolboy who has set fire to his school might call the act of arson a "prank." In this case using meiosis to attempt to diminish the significance of what he had done (in this case grand arson) to the level of a harmless joke or minor act of vandalism. | |
| 89613238 | Metaphor | Direct comparison of two different things without like or as. A figure of speech that says one thing is another to explain by comparison. It is more powerful than simile. | |
| 89613239 | Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the whole. | |
| 89613240 | Microcosm | View of the world through something small. Ex. Lord of the Flies | |
| 89613241 | Mock Ironic | To belittle at various degrees | |
| 89613242 | Monody | Praise for the death of a person. Ex. "He's in a better place." | |
| 89613243 | Mood | Atmosphere and tone | |
| 89613244 | Motif | A subset of theme, it is a reappearing object or thing that is symbolic of something. | |
| 89613245 | Narrative | A story | |
| 89613246 | Narrative Devices | Tools used to tell the story. | |
| 89613247 | Non sequitor | A break in logical progression. All logical fallacies are non sequitors | |
| 89613248 | Novel | A long story | |
| 89613249 | Novelle | A piece longer than a short story, but not as long as a novel. Ex. Billy Budd | |
| 89613250 | Objective POV | Unbiased in perspective | |
| 89613251 | Omniscient POV | All knowing and god-like in knowledge narrator | |
| 89613252 | Onomatopoeia | Word for which the sound suggests its meaning | |
| 89613253 | Organization | The subset of structure, it is how the piece is put together. | |
| 89613254 | Oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another. A contradictory term Ex. Civil War, Jumbo Shrimp. | |
| 89613255 | Paradox | Statement that appears to be false but is true in reality. It is used to further an argument | |
| 89613256 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series related words, phrases, or clauses | |
| 89613257 | Parody | Mocking of something serious in the same structure of the serious object. | |
| 89613258 | Pathetic Fallacy | Fallacy of emotion | |
| 89613259 | Pedantic/ Bombastic | The attempt of using elevated language. It is overly educated and does not fit. | |
| 89613260 | Periodic Sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | |
| 89613261 | Persona | The image, point of view, persona, and tone one assumes. | |
| 89613262 | Personification | Attributing human qualities to an inanimate object. | |
| 89613263 | Persuasive | to convince using emotion. Synonymous with argumentative on the test. | |
| 89613264 | Persuasive Devices | Tools used to persuade. It is a form of rhetoric. | |
| 89613265 | Phrase point of view | Angle from which something is being written or told. | |
| 89613266 | Polysyndeton | Shoves "ands" and conjunctions to link ideas, things, ect. It too creates a sense of overwhelming | |
| 89613267 | Prose | A form that is not poetry | |
| 89613268 | Protagonist | Main character | |
| 89613269 | Pun | Humorous play on words | |
| 89613270 | Qualifying | Use to adjust or modify the precedent or after. | |
| 89613271 | Red- Herring | A purposeful digression meant to confuse | |
| 89613272 | Refutation/ Refute | To prove wrong or incorrect | |
| 89613273 | Resources of Language | Rhetorical devices, strategies, ect. used to determine the message | |
| 89613274 | Rhetoric | All the appeal of the house. They are the tools to make the point clear and used with the argument. | |
| 89613275 | Rhetorical Mode | Types of writing, genres | |
| 89613276 | Rhetorical Question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather that for the purpose of getting an answer | |
| 89613277 | Rhetorical Shift | A change in mood accompanied by a change in nuance. The focus may shift and it is frequently introduced with "But" or "so" | |
| 89613278 | Rhetorical Strategies | Devices of language, ect. | |
| 89613279 | Rhyme | Similar sound at the end of a sentence | |
| 89613280 | Sarcasm | Involves a reversal, the intention being to pick on or hurt | |
| 89613281 | Sardonic | Hopeless and bitter sarcasm. | |
| 89613282 | Satire | Uses a reversal to bring light to problems. The intention is to make something better | |
| 89613283 | Sibilance | A type of alliteration in which the "s" sound is repeated. | |
| 89613284 | Sonnet | A fixed form of poetry. It is 14 lines, has a particular rhyme scheme and thought development | |
| 89613285 | Strawman | The fallacy of taking an argument that no one will attack. | |
| 89613286 | Stream of Consciousness POV | The first thing that comes to mind is said | |
| 89613287 | Structural Irony | Reversal found in the structure of something. | |
| 89613288 | Structure | The way writing is put together, such as stanzas, paragraphs, ect. | |
| 89613289 | Surreal | Out of reality | |
| 89613290 | Syllogism | Form of reasoning in which it goes to major premise, minor premise, and then conclusion. Ex. a=b, so b=a | |
| 89613291 | Symbol | A concrete item that represents an abstract idea. Do not get it confused with "refers:, ect. | |
| 89613292 | Synechdoche | Uses a part to explain a whole or a whole to explain a part. ex. Lend me an ear. | |
| 89613293 | Syntax | Sentence structure. Must connect to argument or another part of the house | |
| 89613294 | Theme | Central idea or statement that unites an entire book, dissertation, ect. It runs throughout and is the primary argument | |
| 89613295 | Threnody | Song or hymn of mourning | |
| 89613296 | Tragedy | Something that begins hopefully, but ends tragically | |
| 89613297 | Tragic Irony | Elemts of tragedy that starts good and ends bad. The opposite may also hold true | |
| 89613298 | Tropes | A very fancy word for "figure of speech." | |
| 89613299 | Unity | Cohesion | |
| 89613300 | Utopia | A perfect place | |
| 89613301 | Verbal irony | Irony found in what is said | |
| 89613302 | Verisimilitude | trying to articulate how a false theory could be closer to the truth than another false theory. | |
| 89613303 | Vernacular | Common speak | |
| 89613304 | Verse | Not prose, but poetry. | |
| 89613305 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings. Uniting a single verb to refer to different objects, for which one does not fit. It is essential denotative in meaning for one and connotative for the other. |
