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| 5665231 | Rhetoric | Using language effectively to please or persuade. | |
| 5665232 | Style | The distinctive characteristics of an author's writing. | |
| 5665233 | Diction | The writer's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression. | |
| 5665234 | Syntax | The study of the rules that govern the structure of sentences | |
| 5665235 | Imagery | Any literary reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste) enabling the reader to "feel" the described item. | |
| 5665236 | Thesis | A one-sentence statement or summary of the basic arguable point of the essay. | |
| 5665237 | Tone | The author's attitude toward the subject matter of his or her written work. | |
| 5665238 | Evidence | Those facts within a written work which support the writer's point. | |
| 5665239 | Purpose | What a writer is trying to accomplish by his or her written work. | |
| 5665240 | Audience | The specific group to which a written piece is directed. | |
| 5665241 | Appeal | The way in which a writer is trying to affect his reader. (For example, emotional or factual) | |
| 5665242 | Assumptions | Those things that a writer assumes about his or her audience. | |
| 25216942 | Pun | Using one word to suggest two different meanings, both of which may seem appropriate in the context of a sentence or paragraph, even though the meanings they suggest may be very different or even opposite. | |
| 25217860 | Double entendre | A pun that suggests two meanings, one of which is risque or highly suggestive in a sexual sense. | |
| 25217861 | Onomatopoeia | A play on the sound of words. | |
| 25217862 | Simile | The use of "like" or "as" to compare two different ideas or things. | |
| 25217863 | Metaphor | An implied comparison not using the words "like" or "as." | |
| 25217864 | Analogy | An implicit comparison that sets up a proportional relationship between two sets of ideas, with each set consisting of at least two different qualities or elements, so that the different qualities of each set of ideas can be compared or equated to each other. | |
| 25217865 | Personification | A specific kind of implicit comparison where the inanimate object is characterized by some quality normally associated with human behavior. | |
| 25217866 | Allegory | An extended comparison; a set of abstract ideas personified through human characters and specific events in which they engage. | |
| 25217867 | Fable | Short allegorical stories that point out a lesson or moral. | |
| 25217868 | Metonymy | When abstract and complex processes are referred to by means of a single concrete part typically associated with the more complex processes. (For example, "The pen is mightier than the sword.") | |
| 25217869 | Synecdoche | When a concrete, complex entity is represented by a single part. (For example, "All hands on deck.") | |
| 25217870 | Apposition | The placement of a word or phrase immediately following another word or phrase to add more detailed information about about the idea suggested | |
| 25217871 | Epithet | The use of a single-word adjective linked to a person or thing to describe a specific quality associated with it; the adjective will always set the noun apart distinguishing it from from the noun itself. (For example, championship soccer team) | |
| 25217872 | Hyperbole | To overstate or exaggerate an idea to its furthest extreme. | |
| 25217873 | Understatement | To play down the magnitude of an idea. | |
| 25217874 | Euphemism | A form of understatement used when a more graphic or direct reference might be offensive. | |
| 25217875 | Paradox | The expression of an apparent contradiction, where opposing ideas are on some level true. | |
| 25217876 | Oxymoron | A paradox created by linking together two apparently contradictory words in a single phrase or clause. (For example, "cruel kindness") | |
| 25217877 | Parallelism | The repetition of the same type of grammatical unit, such as a phrase or clause. | |
| 25217878 | Ellipsis | The omission of a word or phrase that is implied by the context. | |
| 25217879 | Antithesis | A specific use of parallelism in which grammatical forms or parts of speech are repeated in a sentence and are used to express opposing or contrary meanings. | |
| 25217880 | Exclamation | When the writer stops a sentence midway and addresses an individual who may or may not be present. | |
| 25217881 | Parenthesis | A type of interruption of a sentence before it has been completed in order to insert some word, phrase, or clause that launches a new idea. |
