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| 4829919298 | Active Voice | when the subject performs the action |  | 0 |
| 4829935936 | Allusion | With all the lies he says, i'm surprised his nose doesn't grow like Pinocchio's |  | 1 |
| 4829945287 | Anecdote | short story, usually serving to make the listeners laugh or ponder over a topic. |  | 2 |
| 4840039665 | Antecedent | what precedes the pronoun |  | 3 |
| 4840041973 | comic relief | humorous scene inserted in a serious story |  | 4 |
| 4840044130 | Diction |  | 5 | |
| 4840045149 | colloquial | ordinary type of conversation |  | 6 |
| 4840048427 | connotation | the additional sense or meaning of a word | 7 | |
| 4840048428 | denotation | literal meaning of the word | 8 | |
| 4840048787 | jargon | words used in specific fields |  | 9 |
| 4840049315 | vernacular | dialect spoken by a person from the same culture | 10 | |
| 4840049316 | didactic | intended to teach |  | 11 |
| 4840049317 | adage | statement expressing general truth | 12 | |
| 4840049685 | allegory | story or poem with a hidden meaning | 13 | |
| 4840049686 | aphorism |  | 14 | |
| 5103658279 | ellipsis | omission from speech or writing of a word |  | 15 |
| 4840051257 | euphemism | using words to convey something without saying it | 16 | |
| 4840051258 | figurative language | language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation | 17 | |
| 4840052125 | analogy | comparison between two things, usually in the form of a story |  | 18 |
| 4840052126 | hyperbole | ehageration |  | 19 |
| 4840052951 | idiom |  | 20 | |
| 4840052952 | metaphor | comparison made without the use of like or as | 21 | |
| 4840053553 | metonymy |  | 22 | |
| 4840053554 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which the whole, or the opposite, is represented |  | 23 |
| 4840054375 | simile | comparison using like or as |  | 24 |
| 4840054376 | synesthesia | impression of a sense by a body part used to represent another scent |  | 25 |
| 4840054619 | personification | giving an object or idea the ability to perform human acts |  | 26 |
| 4840055745 | foreshadowing | prediction based on the usage or presence of certain words or phrases |  | 27 |
| 4840055746 | genre | category of a work of art or literature |  | 28 |
| 4840056198 | gothic | type of writing that involves dark scenery and ideas |  | 29 |
| 4840056199 | imagery | description of an object or person using the five senses |  | 30 |
| 4840056598 | invective | speech or writing that attacks |  | 31 |
| 4840056599 | irony | words used in a way that makes their intended meaning different from the actual meaning of the words. |  | 32 |
| 4840056600 | verbal irony | when a person says or writes one thing and means another |  | 33 |
| 4840057594 | dramatic irony | In a literary work, creating situations where audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts and their resolutions before characters or actors. | 34 | |
| 4840057595 | situational irony | when a juxtaposition appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. |  | 35 |
| 4840058175 | juxtaposition | two words or phrases being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 36 | |
| 4840058472 | mood |  | 37 | |
| 4840058473 | motive | reason behind an action | 38 | |
| 4840058474 | oxymoron | a contradiction |  | 39 |
| 4840059139 | pacing | controlling the speed of the work |  | 40 |
| 4840059140 | paradox | self-contradictory, but sometimes true |  | 41 |
| 4840059659 | parallelism | same structure between two parts of a phrase or multiple phrases |  | 42 |
| 4840059660 | anaphora | repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an effect | 43 | |
| 4840060500 | chiasmus | rhetorical device in which two or more phrases or words are put against each other by their opposite structures to produce a certain effect |  | 44 |
| 4840060501 | antithesis | when the literal is put with the oppsite |  | 45 |
| 4840061173 | zeugma | using one word to modify two other words |  | 46 |
| 4840061174 | parenthetical idea | qualifying or explanatory sentence, clause or word that writers insert into a paragraph or passage. | 47 | |
| 4840062347 | persona | a figurative mask, or an identity adopted by a character | 48 | |
| 4840063762 | polysendeton | which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an effect. | 49 | |
| 4840064175 | pun | a joke showing the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. |  | 50 |
| 4840064176 | rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. |  | 51 |
| 4840064656 | aristotle's rhetorical triangle | triangle that shows the most effective ways to persuade |  | 52 |
| 4840069478 | hypophora | answers question after asking it |  | 53 |
| 4840067183 | satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |  | 54 |
| 4840066590 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock. |  | 55 |
| 4840070108 | rhetorical question | A question asked for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | | 56 |
| 4840070545 | appositive clause | A noun or pronoun that usually follows another noun or pronoun to describe or clearly identify the 1st one in some manner |  | 57 |
| 4840070913 | balanced sentence | A sentence where words, phrases, or clauses are put against each other to emphasize a contrast |  | 58 |
| 4840070917 | compound sentence | A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions. | 59 | |
| 4840071824 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 60 | |
| 4840072119 | comulative sentence | -an independent clause followed by a series of dependent clauses (contrast with periodic sentence) | 61 | |
| 4840072842 | periodic | A chart of the elements showing the repeating pattern of their properties | 62 | |
| 4840072843 | simple sentence | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause |  | 63 |
| 4840075362 | declarative | Makes a statement |  | 64 |
| 4840075363 | imperative | makes a demand |  | 65 |
| 4840076591 | interrogative | Asks a question |  | 66 |
| 4840077136 | style | The author's choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice, and tone in order to communicate with the reader. | 67 | |
| 4840077137 | symbol | An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |  | 68 |
| 4840077693 | syntax sentence variety | different types of sentences, length, and complexity | 69 | |
| 4840077694 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature |  | 70 |
| 4840077696 | thesis | Focus statement of an essay; premise statement upon which the point of view or discussion in the essay is based. | 71 | |
| 4840078051 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. |  | 72 |
| 4840078418 | understatement | not expressing the full gravity of a situation |  | 73 |
| 4840078419 | litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | 74 | |
| 4840079148 | argument | A single assertion presented and defended by the writer |  | 75 |
| 4840079483 | Aristotle's appeals | logos, ethos, pathos | 76 | |
| 4840080033 | concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. |  | 77 |
| 4840080034 | conditional statement | A statement that can be written in if-then form. | 78 | |
| 4840082636 | contradiction | a statement that is the opposite of another statement |  | 79 |
| 4840082637 | counterexample | an exception to a rule or claim | 80 | |
| 4840083621 | deductive argument | an argument made from the conclusion of something known or assumed |  | 81 |
| 4840083622 | fallacy | A false or mistaken idea | 82 | |
| 4840084839 | ad hominem | focusing on ones physical flaws instead of the flaws in their argument |  | 83 |
| 4840084840 | appeal to authority | A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution. | 84 | |
| 4840085496 | appeal to emotion | Pathos |  | 85 |
| 4840085975 | false analogy | an argument using an inacurate metaphor | 86 | |
| 4840086386 | false cause | a fallacy in which a speaker assumes that because one event follows another, the first event is the cause of the second | 87 | |
| 4840086933 | hasty generalization | a fallacy in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence |  | 88 |
| 4840088441 | non sequitur | something that does not logically follow |  | 89 |
| 4840089152 | slippery slope | A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented |  | 90 |
| 4840089153 | inductive argument | Creating a case by providing specific examples and drawing a conclusion based on the evidence they provide |  | 91 |
| 4840090547 | sound argument | an argument that is valid and has all true premises | 92 | |
| 4840091313 | valid argument | an argument whose structure connects its reasons to its conclusions in a reliable manner |  | 93 |
| 4840091314 | warrant | to justify | 94 | |
| 4840091529 | qualifier | words like usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely that are used to temper claims a bit, making them less absolute | 95 |
