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| 14503659283 | Alliteration | is where words begin with letters belonging to the same sound group | 0 | |
| 14503659284 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
| 14503659285 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 2 | |
| 14503659286 | Anaphora | Repetition of the first word in a sentence pronouns | 3 | |
| 14503659287 | Anecdote | A short and amusing or interesting story often proposed to support or demonstrate some point | 4 | |
| 14503659288 | Annotation | a note of explanation or comment added to a text, diagram, or literary works | 5 | |
| 14503659289 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 6 | |
| 14503659290 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 7 | |
| 14503659291 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 8 | |
| 14503659292 | Aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 9 | |
| 14503659293 | Archaic Diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. "beliefs for which our forebears fought" | 10 | |
| 14503659294 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence; main point | 11 | |
| 14503659295 | Assertion | a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief | 12 | |
| 14503659296 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 13 | |
| 14503659297 | Asyndeton | Writing without any conjunctions | 14 | |
| 14503659298 | Attitude | A person's consistently favorable or unfavorable evaluations, feelings, and tendencies toward an object or idea | 15 | |
| 14503659333 | Audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 16 | |
| 14503659334 | Authority | the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience | 17 | |
| 14503659335 | Bias | A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific | 18 | |
| 14503659336 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 19 | |
| 14503659337 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 20 | |
| 14503659338 | Close Reading | the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text | 21 | |
| 14503659299 | Colloquialism | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing | 22 | |
| 14503659300 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 23 | |
| 14503659339 | Context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text | 24 | |
| 14503659340 | Coordination | The ability to use two or more body parts together | 25 | |
| 14503659341 | Deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 26 | |
| 14503659342 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 27 | |
| 14503659301 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 28 | |
| 14503659302 | Diction | The word choice and phrasing in a written or spoken text | 29 | |
| 14503659343 | Documentation | The act of creating citations to identify resources used in writing, work, etc. | 30 | |
| 14503659344 | Elegiac | Mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful | 31 | |
| 14503659345 | Epigram | A witty saying or expressing a single thought or observation | 32 | |
| 14503659346 | Ethos | The moral element that determines a character's actions, rather than thought or emotion. | 33 | |
| 14503659303 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 34 | |
| 14503659304 | Foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader | 35 | |
| 14503659305 | Figurative Language | Anything that's not meant literally | 36 | |
| 14503659347 | Figure of Speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning | 37 | |
| 14503659306 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 38 | |
| 14503659307 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally | 39 | |
| 14503659308 | Imagery | Sensory Details | 40 | |
| 14503659309 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 41 | |
| 14503659310 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 42 | |
| 14503659311 | Jargon | Vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people | 43 | |
| 14504955545 | Kairos | A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment | 44 | |
| 14503659348 | Logos | Employs logical reasoning, combining a clear idea with well-thought-out and appropriate example and details | 45 | |
| 14503659312 | Mood | The feeling you get as a reader | 46 | |
| 14503659313 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 47 | |
| 14503659314 | Metonymy | Using (a) related term(s) to discuss an idea(s) | 48 | |
| 14503659349 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 49 | |
| 14895002184 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents | 50 | |
| 14503659315 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 51 | |
| 14503659316 | Pacing | How fast a story unfolds | 52 | |
| 14503659317 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | 53 | |
| 14503659318 | Parallelism | Two or more elements of a sentence have the same grammatical structure | 54 | |
| 14503659319 | Parody | Imitation through exaggeration for comedic affect | 55 | |
| 14503659350 | Pathos | Plays with the reader's emotions and interests | 56 | |
| 14503659351 | Persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience | 57 | |
| 14503659320 | Personification | Giving human qualities to non-living things | 58 | |
| 14503659321 | Polysyndeton | Using a lot of conjunctions | 59 | |
| 14503659352 | Propaganda | Information, usually of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view | 60 | |
| 14503659353 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 61 | |
| 14503659354 | Refute | To prove to be false | 62 | |
| 14503659322 | Repetition | Strategic repeating of words for emphasis | 63 | |
| 14503659355 | Rhetoric | The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques | 64 | |
| 14503659323 | Rhetorical Question | A question posed to make a point, not for answering. | 65 | |
| 14503659324 | Satire | The use of exaggeration, irony or humor to expose vices. | 66 | |
| 14503659356 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 67 | |
| 14503659325 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 68 | |
| 14503659357 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information | 69 | |
| 14503659358 | Speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 70 | |
| 14503659326 | Style | The way an author writes and/or tells a story | 71 | |
| 14503659359 | Subject | The topic of a text; what the text is about | 72 | |
| 14503659360 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | 73 | |
| 14503659327 | Symbolism | A representation of something more within a person/object | 74 | |
| 14503659361 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 75 | |
| 14503659362 | Synthesize | Combine to form a more complex product | 76 | |
| 14503659328 | Synesthesia | Describing something by crossing the senses (touch, smell, taste, etc.) | 77 | |
| 14503659329 | Synechdoche | a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part | 78 | |
| 14503659363 | Thesis | A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved | 79 | |
| 14503659364 | Thesis Statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit | 80 | |
| 14503659330 | Tone | The authors attitude toward the subject | 81 | |
| 14503659365 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 82 | |
| 14503659366 | Topic Sentence | A sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs | 83 | |
| 14503659331 | Understatement | Deliberately representing something as much less important than it really is | 84 | |
| 14503659332 | Vernacular | The dialect of a region | 85 | |
| 14503659367 | Voice | A writers distinctive use of language | 86 | |
| 14503659368 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (I.e. John and his license expired last week; with weeping eyes and hearts) | 87 |
