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| 10988765880 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 0 | |
| 10988770782 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 1 | |
| 10988776961 | Thesis | The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position; usually judged by analyzing how accurately, effectively, and thoroughly a writer has proven the thesis. | 2 | |
| 10988793018 | Tone | Similar to mood, _____ describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both; is easier to determine in spoken language than in written language. | 3 | |
| 10988804938 | transition | a word or phrase that links different ideas | 4 | |
| 10988810529 | Understatement | the ironic minimalizing of fact, _____________ presents something as less significant than it is. | 5 | |
| 10988818979 | wit | In modern usage, intellectually amazing language that surprises and delights. A ______ statement is humorous, while suggesting the speaker's verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks. | 6 | |
| 10988887603 | Subject Complement | The word (with any accompanying phrases) or clause that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either renaming it or describing it. | 7 | |
| 10988940249 | Subordinate Clause | This word group contains both a subject and a verb (plus any accompanying phrases or modifiers); also called a dependent clause | 8 | |
| 10988958774 | Syllogism | From the Greek for "reckoning together," a syllogism is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called "major" and the second called "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. | 9 | |
| 10988968493 | Symbol/Symbolism | Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else. | 10 | |
| 10988994400 | Synedoche | Using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels") | 11 | |
| 10989009615 | Synethesia | Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another | 12 | |
| 11007291319 | Rhetoric | The principles governing the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing | 13 | |
| 11007322476 | Rhetorical modes | Describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing | 14 | |
| 11007325602 | Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 15 | |
| 11007337948 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 16 | |
| 11007343959 | Style | The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 17 | |
| 11007365369 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another. | 18 |
