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| 10653395114 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 10653395115 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
| 10653395116 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
| 10653395117 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 3 | |
| 10653395118 | 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 | 4 | |
| 10653395119 | subject | The topic of a text. What the text is about. | 5 | |
| 10653395120 | text | written words | 6 | |
| 10653395121 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 7 | |
| 10653395122 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 8 | |
| 10653395123 | context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 9 | |
| 10653395124 | concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 10 | |
| 10653395125 | Counterargument | an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward | 11 | |
| 10653395126 | Ethos | credibility | 12 | |
| 10653395127 | Logos | an appeal based on logic or reason | 13 | |
| 10653395128 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 14 | |
| 10653395129 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 15 | |
| 10653395130 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 16 | |
| 10653395131 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 17 | |
| 10653395132 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 18 | |
| 10653395133 | Zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 19 | |
| 10653395134 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 20 | |
| 10653395135 | Persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. | 21 | |
| 10653395136 | polemic | an aggressive argument against a specific opinion | 22 | |
| 10653395137 | Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 23 | |
| 10653395138 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 24 | |
| 10653395139 | Refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 25 | |
| 10653395140 | Rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 26 | |
| 10653395141 | rhetorical appeals | ethos, pathos, logos | 27 | |
| 10653395142 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 28 | |
| 10653395143 | SOAPS | Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject | 29 | |
| 10653395144 | Antithesis | Direct opposite | 30 | |
| 10653395145 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 31 | |
| 10653395146 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 32 | |
| 10653395147 | cummulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 33 | |
| 10653395148 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 34 | |
| 10653395149 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 35 | |
| 10653395150 | Inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 36 | |
| 10653395151 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 37 | |
| 10653395152 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 38 | |
| 10653395153 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 39 | |
| 10653395154 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 40 |
