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| 9637109004 | refute | Prove to be false. |  | 0 |
| 9637109005 | rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively. |  | 1 |
| 9637109006 | repetition | A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity. |  | 2 |
| 9637109007 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer since it is already understood. |  | 3 |
| 9637109008 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |  | 4 |
| 9637109009 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else. |  | 5 |
| 9637109010 | speaker | A person who delivers/writes a text for an audience. |  | 6 |
| 9637109011 | subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. |  | 7 |
| 9637109012 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. |  | 8 |
| 9637109013 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion (ex: All trees that lose their leaves are deciduous. Maple trees lose their leaves. Maple trees are deciduous). |  | 9 |
| 9637109014 | syntax | Sentence structure; the way words are arranged (Ex: The blue sky beckoned her. vs. She was beckoned by the blue sky.). |  | 10 |
| 9637109015 | seminal | Original, ground-breaking, important. |  | 11 |
| 9637109016 | simile | A comparison of two things using "like", "as", or "than". |  | 12 |
| 9637109017 | stream of consciousness | A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind. |  | 13 |
| 9637109018 | soliloquy | A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. |  | 14 |
| 9637109019 | synesthesia | Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound", "taste the pain"); stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. |  | 15 |
| 9637109020 | Paraleipsis | An apparent omission by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really emphasizes; pretending to say nothing about something one goes on to say quite a bit about ("I need not mention", "I really shouldn't say"). |  | 16 |
