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| 114984121 | Abstract | designating qualities or characteristics apart from specific object or events | 0 | |
| 114984122 | allegory | narrative in which charater, action, and sometimes setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story | 1 | |
| 114984123 | analogy | process of reasoning that assume if two subjects share a number of specifc observable qualities than they may be expected to share qualities that have not been observed | 2 | |
| 114984124 | anaphora | one of the devices of repetition in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences | 3 | |
| 114984125 | anastrophe | the inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. | 4 | |
| 114984126 | antecedent | The word to which a pronoun refers (whose place it takes) is the antecedent of the pronoun. | 5 | |
| 114984127 | anticipating audience response | a rhetorical technique often used to convince an audience is that of anticipating and stating the arguments that one's opponent is likely to give and then answering theses arguments even before the opponent has had a chance to voice them | 6 | |
| 114984128 | antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in "Man proposes, God disposes." | 7 | |
| 114984129 | aphorism | a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words | 8 | |
| 114984130 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as through present. | 9 | |
| 114984131 | appositive phrase | type of noun phrase that follows the noun or pronoun it modifies and amplifies or restricts its meaning | 10 | |
| 114984132 | chiasmus | type of balance in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the part reversed, as in Coleridge's line, "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike." | 11 | |
| 114984133 | Classification and division | a method of sorting, grouping, collecting, and analyzing things by categories based on features shared by all members of a class or group | 12 | |
| 114984134 | cliche | a timeworn expression that through overuse has lost its power to evoke concrete images | 13 | |
| 114984135 | coinage | a word or phrase made, invented or fabricated | 14 | |
| 114984136 | colloquial expression | they are words or phrases, characteristics or appropriate ordinary or familiar conversations rather than formal speech writing. | 15 | |
| 114984137 | conceit | an elaborate and surprising figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things. It usually involves intellectual cleverness and ingenuity. | 16 | |
| 114984138 | denotation/connotation | the specific, exact meaning of a word, independent of its emotion coloration or association. | 17 | |
| 114984139 | doublespeak | Language use to distort and manipulate rather than to communicate | 18 | |
| 114984140 | downplaying/itensifying | methods of drawing attention and diversion to the work's effectiveness | 19 | |
| 114984141 | ellipsis | the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down. | 20 | |
| 114984142 | ethical appeal | most subtle and often the most powerful because it comes from character and reputation, not words | 21 | |
| 114984143 | ethnocentricity | the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own group and culture. | 22 | |
| 114984144 | eupemism | the Greek word meaning to speak well of: the substitutions of an inoffensive, indirect, or agreeable expression for a word or phrase perceived as socially unacceptable or unnecessarily harsh | 23 | |
| 114984145 | exposition | Exposition is writing that seeks to clarify, explain, or inform using one or several of the following methods: process analysis, definition, classification and division, comparison and contrast, and cause-and-effect analysis. | 24 | |
| 114984146 | idiom | a use of words, a grammatical construction peculiar to a given language, or an expression that cannot be translated literally into a second language | 25 | |
| 114984147 | jargon | usually refers to a specialized language providing a shorthand method of quick communication between people in the same field. Often used to disguise the inner working of a particular trade or profession from public scrutiny. | 26 | |
| 114984148 | juxtapose | placing two ideas side by side or close together. Sometimes the two ideas are completely different. | 27 | |
| 114984149 | lending credence | in arguing her point, a writer or speaker should always lend her opponent some credit for the opponent's ideas. In this way the writer or speaker persuades her audience that she is fair and has done her homework, thereby strengthening her own argument | 28 | |
| 114984150 | litotes | UNDERSTATEMENT in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite. | 29 | |
| 114984151 | logical reasoning | the idea that there are principles governing correct or reliable inferences. Examples of the logical appeal include facts, reasons, and expert opinion. | 30 | |
| 114984152 | loose sentence | a sentence grammatically complete at some point (or points) before the end; the opposite of a PERIDODIC SENTENCE | 31 | |
| 114984153 | lyrical drama | a term used for a dramatic poem in which the form of drama is used to express lyric themes (author's own emotions or ideas of life) instead of relying on a story as the bases of the action. | 32 | |
| 114984154 | metonymy | figure of speech characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. | 33 | |
| 114984155 | motif | literature, recurrent images, words, objects, phrases, or actions that tend to unify the work are called motives | 34 | |
| 114984156 | paradox | a phrase or statement that while seemly is contradictory or absurd may actually be well-founded or true | 35 | |
| 114984157 | parallelism | the arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences, paragraphs, and larger units of composition that one element of with another is similarly developed and phrased | 36 | |
| 114984158 | periodic sentence | a sentence that is not grammatically correct before its end | 37 | |
| 114984159 | polysyndeton | repetition of the conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect | 38 | |
| 114984160 | process analysis | a method of clarifying the nature of something by explaining how it works in seperate, easy-to-understand steps | 39 | |
| 114984161 | Spin (redefining) | In politics, the harmful situations are sometimes plated in the media as philanthropic endeavors | 40 | |
| 114984162 | style | the author's characteristic manner of expression. Includes the types of words used, their placement, and distinctive features of tone, imagery, figurative language, sound,and rhythm | 41 | |
| 114984163 | Sylogism | a formula for presenting an argument logically | 42 | |
| 114984164 | synecdoche | type of figurative language in which the whole is used for the part of the part used for the whole.In "the dying year," the whole is used to stand for a part, "autumn," the use of "Wall Street" to refer the money market or financial affairs to the entire U.S. is an example of the second - using a part to stand for the whole (or the specific to stand for the general). | 43 | |
| 114984165 | syntax | pattern or structure of the word order in a sentene or phrase | 44 | |
| 114984166 | voice | the implied personality the author chooses to adopt, may reflect a persona who projects views quite a different from the author's | 45 |
