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| 4722512264 | Rhetoric | Language designed to have a persuasive effect but is regarded as lacking insincerity or meaning | 0 | |
| 4722512265 | Style | A particular way in which something is done created written or preformed | 1 | |
| 4722515621 | Assertion | The act of stating something in a strong and definitive way or demanding that other people demand or respect something | 2 | |
| 4722515622 | Logical fallacies | The concept of making an error in terms of reasoning | 3 | |
| 4722515623 | Ethical fallacies | The idea of the ethical considerations help to solve the problem of free will more specifically it is the assumption buy some philosophers that free decisions must be restricted to moral decisions | 4 | |
| 4722515624 | Emotional fallacies | The general category of fallacies that use emotion in place of reason in order to attempt to win an argument. It a type of manipulation used in place of valid logic | 5 | |
| 4722515625 | The Aristotilian appeals | Modes of persuasion as defined by Aristotle (logos ethos pathos) | 6 | |
| 4722527820 | Ethos | The characteristic spirit of a culture era or community as manifested in its benefits and aspirations. An appealed to ethics; a way of convincing audience by creating an emotional response | 7 | |
| 4722527821 | Pathos | A form of persuasion that provokes pity or sadness | 8 | |
| 4722527822 | Logos | "logic". And argument used to persuade by employing reason/logic | 9 | |
| 4722527823 | Modes of discourse | Describes the variety, conventions, and purpose of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking (narration, exposition, description, argumentation) | 10 | |
| 4722527824 | Description | A spoken or written representation or a count of a person, object, or you got. Discourse intended to give a mental image | 11 | |
| 4722527825 | Division and classification | Essays broken into subtopics ranked by a common standard | 12 | |
| 4722527826 | Narration | The action or process of narrating a story and Tom and Jerry delivered to accompany a movie, broadcast, etc. The recital of events in an orderly sequence | 13 | |
| 4722527827 | Comparison and contrast | Essays which analyze the differences between topics or similarities | 14 | |
| 4722527828 | Process | A series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end | 15 | |
| 4722533991 | Cause and effect | Cause: principle of causation (Why) effect: outcome (what) outcome. Notes a relationship between actions or events such that one triggers a specific result | 16 | |
| 4722533992 | Tone | The general character attitude of a place, piece of writing, etc. | 17 | |
| 4722533993 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases of speech or writing | 18 | |
| 4722533994 | Denotation | The literal or primary meaning of a word in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 19 | |
| 4722533995 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 20 | |
| 4722533996 | Colloquial | Used an ordinary language; not formal or literary | 21 | |
| 4722535515 | Formal | Done in accordance to rules of convention or etiquette; suitable or constituting an official or legal/important situation or occasion | 22 | |
| 4722530507 | Argument and persuasion | Written to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valued reasoning and relevant evidence | 23 | |
| 4723559117 | Informal | Relaxed and friendly without being restricted by rules of correct behavior. And in formal style of writing or speaking is suitable for ordinary conversations or letters to friends | 24 | |
| 4722533997 | Definition | A statement of the exact meaning of a word and the degree of distinction | 25 | |
| 4723573563 | Concrete | Constituting an actual thing or an instance; a word or notion having an actual or existent thing or instance as its referent | 26 | |
| 4723726556 | Didactic | Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. Intended to convey instruction and information as well as pleasure and entertainment | 27 | |
| 4723726557 | Nostalgic | Characterized by feeling or exhibiting emotions of wistfulness or sentimental longing or wistfulness or affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations | 28 | |
| 4723726558 | Contemptuous | Showing contempt; scornful. Contempt: the feeling that a person or thing is beneath consideration. Worthless or deserving scorn | 29 | |
| 4723726559 | Sardonic | Grimy. Mocking or cynical | 30 | |
| 4723726560 | Slang | A type of language that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech that writing, and are typically restricted to a group of people | 31 | |
| 4723726561 | Jargon | Special words or expressions tags are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | 32 | |
| 4723726562 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially | 33 | |
| 4723726563 | Figurative language | Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation | 34 | |
| 4723726564 | Tropes | A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression and a common or overused theme or device | 35 | |
| 4723726565 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable without using words indicating similarities | 36 | |
| 4723573564 | Abstract | Thought of apart from concrete realities; specific object or instance; theoretical; not applied or practical; a summary of text; an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object | 37 | |
| 4739047086 | Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another thing of different kind, used to make a description more empathetic or vivid | 38 | |
| 4739047087 | Allusion | Expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning indirect or passing reference | 39 | |
| 4739047088 | Personification | Figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals objects or ideas representing a nonhuman thing as human | 40 | |
| 4739205358 | Metonymy | Substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, ex suit for business executive | 41 | |
| 4739205359 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent a whole or vice versa ex Cleveland won by six runs equals Cleveland's team | 42 | |
| 4739205360 | Zeugma | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (example John and his license expired last week). Or two others of which it semantically suits one (with weeping eyes and hearts) | 43 | |
| 4739205361 | Apostrophe | A punctuation mark's used to indicate either possession or the omission of letters or numbers | 44 | |
| 4739205362 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 45 | |
| 4739205363 | Meiosis/understatement | I want to go understatement in which affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary; meiosis specifically defined as a woody understatement that belittles or dismisses something or somebody, particularly by making use of terms that gives impression that something is less important than it is or it should be | 46 | |
| 4739205364 | Litotes | A negative understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 47 | |
| 4739205365 | Catachresis | The use of the word in a way that is not correct for example use of Mitilgate for militate | 48 | |
| 4739205366 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction for example (face unfaithful captain falsely true) | 49 | |
| 4739205367 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that, despite sound or Pantley sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory, but when investigated or explained may prove to be well-founded or true. A situation, person, or saying that combines contradictory features or qualities | 50 | |
| 4739205368 | Puns | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of the word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings | 51 | |
| 4739205369 | Imagery | Usually descriptive or figurative language especially in a literary works. Visual symbolism | 52 | |
| 4739205370 | Synesthesia | You production of a sense impression leaving one cents or part of the body by stimulation of another sense for part of the body. It technique adopted by Raiders to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that the appeal to more than one sense like hearing seeing smell etc. at a given time | 53 | |
| 4739205371 | Sensory language | A way for writer to help the reader see or connect with an image description action or seen. Language that connects to the five senses to create an image or description | 54 | |
| 4739205372 | Organization | First of the order in which a writer chooses to present his or her ideas to the reader. Five main types include deductive, inductive, chronological, spatial, climatic | 55 | |
| 4739205373 | Deductive | A type of organization in which events begin with the general assertion and then present specific details and examples in support of the generalization | 56 | |
| 4739205374 | Inductive | A type of organization in which events begin with the number of examples and then conclude with the general truth or principal | 57 | |
| 4739205375 | Exemplification | The act of exemplifying. Is showing or illustration by example | 58 | |
| 4739205376 | Exposition | A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. Writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or explain.! Detailed statement or explanation | 59 | |
| 4739205377 | Persuasion | Literary technique that writers use to present their ideas the reasons and logic to influence the audience. It may simply using argument to persuade readers, or sometimes may persuade readers to perform a certain action | 60 | |
| 4739205378 | Repetition | A literary device that repeats the same word or phrase is the few times to make an idea clearer; A rhetorical device, a word, or phrase, or line, repeated to emphasize that significance in the entire text | 61 | |
| 4739205379 | Syllogism | A adductive scheme of formal argument consisting of a major and minor premise and conclusion. Every virtue is laudable, kindness is a virtue, therefore kindness is laudable | 62 | |
| 4739205380 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar | 63 | |
| 4739205381 | Anecdote | Is short and interesting story or amusing event often supposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers laugh; it short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic | 64 | |
| 4739205382 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 65 | |
| 4739205383 | Point of view | The manner in which a story is narrated or depicted and who it is that tells the story; determines the angle and perception of the story unfolding | 66 | |
| 4739205384 | First person | Used when the main character is telling the story | 67 | |
| 4739205385 | Second person | The person used by speaker and referring to the one on ones when they are speaking: in English you is the second person pronoun | 68 | |
| 4739205386 | Third person | A form of storytelling in which the narrator relates all action in third person, using third person pronouns such as he or she. May be omniscient | 69 | |
| 4739205387 | Subjective | Personal; closely connected to another's feelings, attitudes; prejudices; and personal reactions | 70 | |
| 4739205388 | Objective | Impersonal; free from the office, attitudes and prejudices | 71 | |
| 4739205389 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create wealth fund sentences in a language. Helps writers develop toned, mood, and atmosphere in a text with evoking interest | 72 | |
| 4739205390 | Schemes | A change in standard word order or pattern; the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line; literary devices such as alliteration and assonance | 73 | |
| 4739205391 | Parallelism | Do use of components in a sentence that are going medically the scene, or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter | 74 | |
| 4739205392 | Anaphora | The use of the word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in the sentence, to avoid repetition, repetition of a word or phrase beginning of successive clauses The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic affect | 75 | |
| 4739205393 | Epistrophe | The repetition of a word at the end of the clauses or sentences | 76 | |
| 4739205394 | Symploce | Figure of repetition that combines anaphora and Epistrophe in which The first and last words or words in a phrase clause or sentence; repetition of the first and last word In a clause or successive clauses | 77 | |
| 4739213681 | Anti-thesis | Literal meaning opposite, is a rhetorical device in which to opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 78 | |
| 4739287353 | Anastrophe | Literary device where in the order of the noun and the adjective in the sentence is exchanged creates dramatic impact and lens wait to the description offered by the additive; the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses | 79 | |
| 4739287354 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical or literal figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or modified form, two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of the shelters in order to produce an artistic affect | 80 | |
| 4739287355 | Asyndeton | Derived from the Greek word meaning unconnected. A stylistic device used in literature and butchery to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy. Helps in reducing the indirect meaning of the phrase and presents it in a concise form | 81 | |
| 4739287356 | Polysyndenton | A stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve and artistic effect | 82 | |
| 4739287357 | Periodic sentence | Particular placement of the sentence elements such as the main clause or its predicate are purposely help off and placed at the end instead of the beginning or their conventional positions. The sentence meaning does not become clear until the end | 83 | |
| 4739287358 | Cumulative sentence | A loose sentence that starts with an independent clause of main clause, which is simple and straight, provided main idea, then adds subordinate elements or modifiers | 84 | |
| 4739287359 | Rhetorical question | A question asked for a fact or to the emphasis on some point discussed but no real answers expected. May have an obvious answer | 85 | |
| 4739287360 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or close connecting words | 86 | |
| 4739287361 | Assonance | The repetition of a sound or vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 87 | |
| 4739287362 | Consonance | Repetitive sounds produced by consonants with s sentence or phrase, in quick succession | 88 | |
| 4739524641 | Contrastive | Studying or exhibiting differences and congruence a between two languages or dialects without reference to their organs. To compare in order to show unlikeliness or differences | 89 |
