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| 8527858877 | speaker | the person or group who creates a text | 0 | |
| 8527859471 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 1 | |
| 8527859472 | subject | the topic of the text (what the text is about) | 2 | |
| 8527860890 | context | the circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text | 3 | |
| 8527860891 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 4 | |
| 8527861649 | persona | the face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience | 5 | |
| 8527861650 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 6 | |
| 8527873037 | author | a person who writes a text | 7 | |
| 8527873038 | narrator | A person who gives an account of events or experiences *Note: Do not assume the narrator in a text is the author. | 8 | |
| 8527873731 | first person point of view | a mode of narration that uses "I" and gives the perspective of one speaker | 9 | |
| 8527873732 | second person point of view | a mode of narration that uses "you" | 10 | |
| 8527875573 | third person point of view | a mode of narration that uses the pronouns "he" "she" | 11 | |
| 8527875574 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 12 | |
| 8527877274 | syllogism | A logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion. Example: Exercise contributes to health. Yoga is a form of exercise. Yoga contributes to better health | 13 | |
| 8527877275 | paradox | A statement of situation that is seemingly contradictory on the surface, but delivers a possible or ironic truth | 14 | |
| 8527878183 | analogy | A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. Often an analogy uses something simple or familiar to explain something unfamiliar or complex. | 15 | |
| 8527878184 | simile | A figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using the words like, as, or as though | 16 | |
| 8527878701 | metaphor | A figure of speech that compare two things without using like or as | 17 | |
| 8527878702 | zeugma | A parallel use of a single word with two different meanings (usually in a surprising or jarring way) "For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life."--JFK | 18 | |
| 8527879401 | tropes | figures of speech that deal with the meaning of words | 19 | |
| 8527880271 | schemes | figures of speech that deal with the word order/syntax | 20 | |
| 8527901460 | anecdote | A brief story used to illustrate a point or claim | 21 | |
| 8527901461 | first-hand evidence | Evidence based on something the writer knows, whether it's from personal experience, observations, or general knowledge of events | 22 | |
| 8527902467 | second-hand evidence | Evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. It includes factual and historical information, expert opinion, and quantitative data | 23 | |
| 8527904308 | primary source | A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person, or work of art | 24 | |
| 8527905212 | secondary source | Secondary sources describe, discuss, interpret, comment upon, analyze, evaluate, summarize, and process primary sources | 25 | |
| 8527913072 | allusion | A brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art | 26 | |
| 8527916501 | parallelism | a similarity of structure in a pair/series of words, phrases, or clauses | 27 | |
| 8527916502 | repetition | repeating a word, a phrase, or an idea to achieve emphasis | 28 | |
| 8527916996 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 29 | |
| 8527916997 | epistrophe | repetition of a word or phrase coming at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 30 | |
| 8527918890 | epanalepsis | Repeating a word from the beginning of a clause at the end of a clause | 31 | |
| 8527921682 | anadiplosis | Repeating the last word of a clause at the beginning of the next clause | 32 | |
| 8527923054 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." -- JFK | 33 | |
| 8527924549 | a series | a technique that presents several items in rapid sequence | 34 | |
| 8527926191 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions in a series "By simple living, by an illimitable soul, you inspire, you correct, you instruct, you raise, you embellish all." --Emerson "Let every nation know...that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe...." --JFK | 35 | |
| 8527927378 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of multiple conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words "Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret of algebra, or of chemistry, or of good reading and good recitation of poetry or of prose, or of chosen facts in history or in biography." | 36 | |
| 8527929920 | alliteration | The close repetition of initial consonant sounds | 37 | |
| 8527930723 | antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction The parallel structure creates a clear comparison between two things in order to emphasize the difference between them. "We shall support any friend, oppose any foe." --JFK | 38 | |
| 8527931663 | inversion | the inverted order of words in a sentence (a variation of the subject-verb-object order) "Appetite and indolence they have, but no enthusiasm." --Emerson "United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do." --JFK | 39 | |
| 8527937794 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 40 | |
| 8527938859 | interrogative sentence | A sentence that asks or poses a question | 41 | |
| 8527939575 | rhetorical question | A question asked only to emphasize a point, introduce a topic, or provoke thought, not to elicit an answer | 42 | |
| 8527940427 | hortative sentence | A sentence designed to encourage or urge people to some course of conduct or action | 43 |
