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| 4236622570 | Rhetoric | The art of effectively using language in speech or writing | 0 | |
| 4236624995 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected | 1 | |
| 4236626206 | Tone | Style or manner of expression in speaking writing, the author's attitude towards the subject | 2 | |
| 4236628931 | Mood | feeling a piece of literature brings out in the reader | 3 | |
| 4236629665 | Diction | Choice of words especially with regards to correctness, clearness, and effectiveness | 4 | |
| 4236633394 | Syntax | The way in which words are put together to for phrases, clauses, or sentences | 5 | |
| 4236634714 | Irony | The use of words to express something other than that and especially the opposite of the literal meaning | 6 | |
| 4236645376 | simile | a comparison between two unlike things which uses like or as | 7 | |
| 4236646614 | paradox | a situation which contradicts itself | 8 | |
| 4236647545 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sounds or of different vowel sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables | 9 | |
| 4236669507 | onomatopoeia | The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmurer that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to | 10 | |
| 4236698378 | metaphorical | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another thus making an implicit comparison | 11 | |
| 4236738334 | antecedent | going before |  | 12 |
| 4236739612 | argumentation | the presentation and elaboration of an argument or arguments | 13 | |
| 4236740231 | persuation | to induce to undertake a course of action or embrace a point of view by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty | 14 | |
| 4236743846 | oxymoron | A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined |  | 15 |
| 4236747395 | Personification | a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form | 16 | |
| 4236749110 | euphemism | the act or example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive |  | 17 |
| 4236754942 | metonymy | a figure if speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |  | 18 |
| 4236757971 | allegory | a literary dramatic or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas, principles, or forces, so that the literal sense has or suggests a parallel, deeper symbolic sense |  | 19 |
| 4236764245 | anecdote | brief story |  | 20 |
| 4236765290 | satiric | a story that uses literary ridicules and humor to make a point | 21 | |
| 4236766181 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |  | 22 |
| 4236767654 | understatement | statement that is represented as less than the case |  | 23 |
| 4236769004 | ad hominem | in addition to |  | 24 |
| 4236770164 | begging the question | to assume the truth of the point of the question. |  | 25 |
| 4236867317 | Non sequitr | statement or a conclusion that does not logically follow from previous statements | 26 | |
| 4236869786 | syllogism | deductive argument consisting of two premises and a conclusion |  | 27 |
| 4236871723 | allusion | refer indirectly | 28 | |
| 4236872299 | assonance | the repition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables with changes in the intervening consonants as the phrase "tilting at windmills | 29 | |
| 4236876452 | consonance | the repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern | 30 | |
| 4236877977 | colloquial | informal conversational characteristic of ordinary conversation | 31 | |
| 4236879051 | apostrophe | a direct address either to an absent person or to an abstracts or nonhuman entity | 32 | |
| 4236880066 | antithesis | opposition and contrast of ideas |  | 33 |
| 4236883867 | inferred | concluded from facts or reasoning |  | 34 |
| 4236887089 | refute | to prove false as in an option | 35 |
