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| 9936714151 | ad hominem | that involves commenting on or against an opponent/to undermine him instead of his arguments, "against the man", logical fallacy | 0 | |
| 9936715956 | abstract generalization | vague, opposite of concrete, intangible | 1 | |
| 9936719895 | accumulation | Heaping on of words, aka congeries, gathering of points and listing them together | 2 | |
| 9936719896 | allegory | abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters/figures/events, narrative that uses symbols, intended to teach a lesson | 3 | |
| 9936721125 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sequence | 4 | |
| 9936726059 | allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 5 | |
| 9936726060 | analogy | comparison where an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that it is different from, aims to explain that idea/thing by comparing it to something that is familiar | 6 | |
| 9936730274 | analysis | explain something bit by bit to enhance understanding | 7 | |
| 9936730275 | antecedent | earlier clause/phrase/word to which a pronoun/noun/another word refers | 8 | |
| 9936731938 | anticlimax | expectations are raised followed by a disappointing/boring situation, or a sudden transition in discourse from an important idea to a ludicrous or trivial one | 9 | |
| 9936731939 | antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 10 | |
| 9936733468 | apostrophe | speaking directly to someone who is not present/dead/inanimate object | 11 | |
| 9936733469 | appeal to authority | aka appeal to false authority, logical fallacy, insisting that a claim is true simply because a valid authority or expert on the issue said it was true without any other supporting evidence offered | 12 | |
| 9936735620 | argument | main statement, point on which the writer will develop his work in order to convince his readers | 13 | |
| 9936735621 | audience | person for whom a writer writes | 14 | |
| 9936740572 | authorial aside | short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience/himself, only the audience knows what was said | 15 | |
| 9936743140 | balanced sentence | made up of two segments which are equal, not only in length, but also in grammatical structure and meaning, always have parallelism | 16 | |
| 9936744969 | circumlocution | indirect way of saying something, roundabout speech | 17 | |
| 9936746939 | colloquial expressions | use of informal words/phrases/slang in a piece of writing, gives work a sense of realism | 18 | |
| 9936750288 | deductive reasoning | starts out with a general statement and tries to reach a specific, logical conclusion | 19 | |
| 9936750289 | inductive reasoning | makes broad generalizations from specific observations | 20 | |
| 9936754921 | extended metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph/lines in a poem | 21 | |
| 9936757983 | enumeration | listing if details, emphasizes or elucidates topic | 22 | |
| 9936759228 | euphemism | polite/indirect expressions that replace words and phrases considered harsh/impolite/disgusting, idiomatic statement | 23 | |
| 9936759229 | aphorism | pithy/concise saying that expresses a general truth | 24 | |
| 9936760361 | exposition | device used to introduce background information about events/settings/characters/other elements of a work to the audience | 25 | |
| 9936761811 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration or a statement not meant to be taken literally | 26 | |
| 9936764157 | rhetorical shift | change in mood accompanied by a change in nuance, focus may shift and it is frequently introduced with "But" or "so" | 27 | |
| 9936768511 | ironical understatement | understatement that ironic, see understatement | 28 | |
| 9936770767 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 29 | |
| 9936770768 | narration | act of explaining something or telling a story | 30 | |
| 9936771835 | oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 31 | |
| 9936774999 | paradox | statement that is self-contradictory or silly, but may include a latent truth | 32 | |
| 9936778368 | onomatopoeia | word that imitates the natural sound of a thing | 33 | |
| 9936780324 | personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea | 34 | |
| 9936780325 | parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 35 | |
| 9936789684 | qualifying adjective | adjective that describes the "qualities" of a person/object | 36 | |
| 9936790922 | refutation | speaker acknowledges opposing arguments and disproves the opposing arguments | 37 | |
| 9936790923 | repetition | repeating the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable | 38 | |
| 9936792310 | rhetorical questions | asked for effect or to lay emphasis on some point being discussed, no real answer expected | 39 | |
| 9936792311 | simile | figure of speech that compares using the words "like" or "as" | 40 | |
| 9936794177 | metaphor | Figure of speech that compares two things without using "like" or "as." | 41 | |
| 9936795961 | speaker | narrative voice that speaks writer's feelings/thoughts, voice through which the story is told | 42 | |
| 9936795962 | SOAPSTone | used to analyze a passage; Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, Tone | 43 | |
| 9936797396 | staccato phrases | phrases that focus reader on content because there are no unnecessary words hiding meaning, convey message w/ gradually increasing vehemence | 44 | |
| 9936797397 | syllogism | device with 3 parts: a major premise, minor premise, conclusion that is deduced | 45 | |
| 9936799116 | symbol | Something that represents something else by association/resemblance/convention | 46 | |
| 9936799117 | tone | a writer's attitude toward a subject, how the writer approaches the theme | 47 | |
| 9936804892 | understatement | contains an expression of lesser strength than what would be expected, opposite of embellishment, figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is | 48 | |
| 9936804893 | verbal irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning | 49 | |
| 9936806306 | imperative mood verbs | verb form which makes a command or a request (empty vs empties, run vs runs) | 50 | |
| 9936820620 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 51 | |
| 9936825857 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 52 | |
| 9936825858 | asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 53 | |
| 9936830146 | synecdoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 54 | |
| 9936834587 | zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 55 | |
| 9936834588 | periodic sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 56 | |
| 9936840790 | archaic diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 57 | |
| 9936840791 | cumulative sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 58 | |
| 9936842220 | hortative sentence | Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 59 | |
| 9936842221 | imperative sentence | Sentence used to command or enjoin | 60 | |
| 9936845097 | inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 61 | |
| 9937064461 | syntax | how words are used to form a sentence, sentence structure | 62 | |
| 9937064462 | diction | word choice | 63 | |
| 9942314478 | comparison | device in which a writer compares or contrasts two people/places/things/ideas | 64 |
