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| 7161500207 | Mood | a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions; Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 0 | |
| 7161501443 | Maxim | A literary device, maxim is a simple and memorable line, quote or rule for taking action and leading a good life. | 1 | |
| 7161506538 | Naturalistic Detail | A view, particularly a philosophical and artistic one, that bases everything on what can be seen, what is viewed as natural and what is viewed as Earthly. | 2 | |
| 7161515923 | Inverted Sentence | A sentence in a normally subject-first language in which the predicate (verb) comes before the subject (noun). | 3 | |
| 7161515941 | Modes of Discourse | Describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking. Narration, description, exposition, and argumentation are four of the most common. | 4 | |
| 7161516909 | Objective Description | words are "neutral" or "denotative" because they aren't likely to carry any emotional charge. They convey information but not much feeling about that information. | 5 | |
| 7161516925 | Pathetic Fallacy | a kind of personification that gives human emotions to inanimate objects of nature for example referring to weather features reflecting a mood. | 6 | |
| 7161517589 | Parallelism | refers to using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter. | 7 | |
| 7205381637 | Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 8 | |
| 7205381638 | Parody | an imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect. | 9 | |
| 7205381913 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish | 10 | |
| 7205381914 | Periodic Sentence | Has the main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made | 11 | |
| 7205382273 | Persuasion Writing | A form of writing in which the writer uses words to convince the reader that the writer's opinion is correct in regard to an issue. | 12 | |
| 7205382274 | Point of View | the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation. | 13 | |
| 7205382524 | Paraphrase | A restatement of speech or writing that retains the basic meaning while changing the words. A paraphrase often clarifies the original statement by putting it into words that are more easily understood. | 14 | |
| 7205382624 | Plagiarism | the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. | 15 | |
| 7205382625 | Purpose | the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. | 16 | |
| 7205382973 | Passive Voice | In passive voice sentences, the subject is acted upon by the verb. | 17 | |
| 7205382974 | Active Voice | Describes a sentence where the subject performs the action stated by the verb | 18 | |
| 7205383110 | Pathos | a quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow. Pathos can be expressed through words, pictures or even with gestures of the body. | 19 | |
| 7205383112 | Repetition | a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer. | 20 | |
| 7205383236 | Rhetoric | a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. It is an art of discourse, which studies and employs various methods to convince, influence or please an audience | 21 | |
| 7205383237 | Exposition | a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers. | 22 | |
| 7205383338 | Argumentation | the main statement of a poem, an essay, a short story, or a novel that usually appears as an introduction or a point on which the writer will develop his work in order to convince his readers. | 23 | |
| 7205383473 | Description | A text that explains the features of something. A description uses language that helps the readers or listeners to form images in their minds about the thing being described. | 24 | |
| 7205383474 | Rhetorical Questions | a question that you ask without expecting an answer. The question might be one that does not have an answer. It might also be one that has an obvious answer but you have asked the question to make a point, to persuade or for literary effect. | 25 | |
| 7205383631 | Rhetorical Strategies | A rhetorical strategy uses words in a certain way to convey meaning or to persuade. It can also be a technique to evoke an emotion on the part of the reader or audience. | 26 | |
| 7205383632 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. | 27 | |
| 7205383772 | Satire | a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. | 28 | |
| 7205383773 | Semantic | one of the important branches of linguistics that deals with interpretation and meaning of the words, sentence structure and symbols, while determining the reading comprehension of the readers how they understand others and their interpretations. | 29 | |
| 7205384900 | Sentence Structure | the way a sentence is arranged, grammatically. The sentence structure of your writing includes where the noun and verb fall within an individual sentence. | 30 | |
| 7205384901 | Style | the literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. | 31 | |
| 7205385144 | Subordinate Clause | a group of words that has both a subject and a verb but cannot stand alone as a sentence. | 32 | |
| 7205386999 | Subject Compliment | the adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb. | 33 | |
| 7205387161 | Synecdoche | a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 34 | |
| 7205387162 | Main Clause | a clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb | 35 | |
| 7205387305 | Synesthesia | refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. | 36 | |
| 7205387360 | Syllogism | a rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific. | 37 | |
| 7205387361 | Syntax | determines how the chosen words are used to form a sentence. | 38 | |
| 7205387687 | Subject | A part of every sentence. The subject tells what the sentence is about; it contains the main noun or noun phrase | 39 | |
| 7205387688 | Thesis | a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved. | 40 | |
| 7205387689 | Tone | an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. | 41 | |
| 7205388098 | Transition | Transitions are words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences and paragraphs. Transitions help to make a piece of writing flow better. | 42 | |
| 7205388099 | Support | bear all or part of the weight of; hold up. | 43 | |
| 7205388302 | Comparison/Constrast | To contrast something is to look for differences among two or more elements, but compare is to do the opposite, to look for similarities. | 44 | |
| 7205388339 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. | 45 | |
| 7205388340 | Wit | a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. | 46 |
