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| 7195570699 | Alliteration | the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 7195891891 | Allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 7195892693 | Analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 7195893131 | Anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 7195895185 | Anecdote | a short account of an interesting event. | 4 | |
| 7195895608 | Annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 5 | |
| 7195896019 | Antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 7195898349 | Antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 7195898710 | Antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 8 | |
| 7195899348 | Aphorism | a short, astute statement of a general truth. | 9 | |
| 7195899963 | Appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 7195900594 | Archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 7195902616 | Argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence. | 12 | |
| 7195903391 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle). | 13 | |
| 7195903995 | Assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 14 | |
| 7195904897 | Assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof. Asyndeton: Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 15 | |
| 7195905874 | Attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 16 | |
| 7195907733 | Audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 17 | |
| 7195908251 | Authority | a reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 18 | |
| 7195908614 | Bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 19 | |
| 7195909283 | Cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 20 | |
| 7195909800 | Claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 21 | |
| 7195910236 | Close reading | a careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. | 22 | |
| 7195910742 | Colloquial/ism | an informal or conversational use of language. | 23 | |
| 7195911517 | Common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 24 | |
| 7195912826 | Complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 25 | |
| 7195913164 | Concession | a reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 26 | |
| 7195913749 | Connotation | that which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (see denotation). | 27 | |
| 7195914243 | Context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 28 | |
| 7195914633 | Coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 29 | |
| 7195915027 | Counterargument | a challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 30 | |
| 7195915484 | Cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 31 | |
| 7195917200 | Declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement. | 32 | |
| 7195917570 | Deduction | reasoning from general to specific. | 33 | |
| 7195917997 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 34 | |
| 7195918293 | Diction | word choice. | 35 | |
| 7195918754 | Documentation | bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 36 | |
| 7195919161 | Elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 37 | |
| 7195919494 | Epigram | a brief witty statement. | 38 | |
| 7195920119 | Ethos | a Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). | 39 | |
| 7195920690 | Figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 40 | |
| 7195921006 | Figure of speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 41 | |
| 7195921400 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 42 | |
| 7195923671 | Imagery | vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 43 | |
| 7195924046 | Imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands. | 44 | |
| 7195924569 | Induction | reasoning from specific to general. | 45 | |
| 7195925010 | Inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 46 | |
| 7195925414 | Irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 47 | |
| 7195925694 | Juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 48 | |
| 7195926263 | Logos | a Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) | 49 | |
| 7195927445 | Metaphor | a figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 50 | |
| 7195930411 | Metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 51 | |
| 7195930764 | Occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 52 | |
| 7195931316 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 53 | |
| 7195931852 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 54 | |
| 7195932659 | Parallelism | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 55 | |
| 7195934571 | Parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 56 | |
| 7195935294 | Pathos | a Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and logos). | 57 | |
| 7195935653 | Persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 58 | |
| 7195936405 | Personification | assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 59 | |
| 7195937111 | Polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. | 60 | |
| 7195937427 | Polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 61 | |
| 7195938391 | Premise | major, minor Two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise. Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All horses are mammals. Conclusion: All horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism). | 62 | |
| 7195939390 | Propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 63 | |
| 7195941354 | Purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 64 | |
| 7195944901 | Refute | to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 65 | |
| 7195945177 | Rhetoric | the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 66 | |
| 7195945704 | Rhetorical modes | patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. | 67 | |
| 7195946555 | Rhetorical question | a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 68 | |
| 7195947176 | Rhetorical triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle). | 69 | |
| 7195947949 | Satire | an ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 70 | |
| 7195948236 | Scheme | a pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 71 | |
| 7195948603 | Sentence patterns | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 72 | |
| 7195948901 | Sentence variety | using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 73 | |
| 7195949165 | Simile | a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 74 | |
| 7195949479 | Simple sentence | a statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 75 | |
| 7195949710 | Source | a book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 76 | |
| 7195950004 | 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. | 77 | |
| 7195950554 | Straw man | a logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 78 | |
| 7195950918 | Style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 79 | |
| 7195951422 | Subject | in rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 80 | |
| 7195951762 | Subordinate clause | created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 81 | |
| 7195952239 | Subordination | the dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 82 | |
| 7195952704 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise (see premise; major, and minor). | 83 | |
| 7195953168 | Syntax | sentence structure. | 84 | |
| 7195953663 | Synthesize | combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 85 | |
| 7195954046 | Thesis | the central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 86 | |
| 7195954533 | Thesis statement | a statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 87 | |
| 7195955045 | Tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 88 | |
| 7195955573 | Topic sentence | a sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis. | 89 | |
| 7195956374 | Trope | artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 90 | |
| 7195956771 | Understatement | lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 91 | |
| 7195957375 | Voice | in grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 92 | |
| 7195957585 | Zeugma | a construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence. | 93 |
