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| 14072172957 | Antagonist | The character who opposes the interests of the antagonist. | 0 | |
| 14072178456 | Antanaclasis | Repetition of a word in two different senses. | 1 | |
| 14079401599 | Anticipated Objection | The technique a writer or speaker uses in an argumentative text to address and answer objections, even though the audience has not had the opportunity to voice these objections. | 2 | |
| 14080391107 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 3 | |
| 14080402280 | Apostrophe | The direct address of an absent person or personified object as if he/she/it is able to reply. | 4 | |
| 14080426719 | Appeal to Authority | In a text, the reference to words, action, or beliefs of a person in authority as a means of supporting a claim, generalization, or conclusion. | 5 | |
| 14080445340 | Appeal to Emotion | The appeal of a text to the feelings or interests of the audience. | 6 | |
| 14080461039 | Argument by Analysis | An argument developed by breaking the subject matter into its component parts. | 7 | |
| 14080464574 | Bombast | Inflated or extravagant language. | 8 | |
| 14080486851 | Deus ex Machina | a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty. | 9 | |
| 14080496793 | Logical Fallacies | Errors in reasoning. If you become familiar with them, you can identify logical fallacies in other's arguments. | 10 | |
| 14080523258 | Post Hoc Fallacy | Just because Event A happened before Event B, you assume that Event A caused Event B. | 11 | |
| 14080532207 | Non Sequitur Fallacy | An even more illogical connection of cause/effect, in which Event A clearly has nothing to do with Event B. The evidence offered does not support the conclusion that is reached. | 12 | |
| 14080573850 | Ad Hominem Argument | You attack the person instead of the person's argument or point of view on a subject. | 13 | |
| 14080593971 | Appeal to Questionable or Faulty Authority | Citing an authority who may not have expertise on the subject or using phrasing like "Sources close to..." or "Experts claim..." | 14 | |
| 14081452579 | Begging the Question | Asking the reader to assume that something is true without proving it first-especially flawed if that "something" is controversial. | 15 | |
| 14081464023 | False Analogy | You assume that because two things share some characteristics, they are alike in all respects. | 16 | |
| 14081482758 | Either/Or Fallacy | You assume that taking a certain viewpoint or course of action will result in one of two diametrically opposed outcomes (no other outcomes possible). | 17 | |
| 14081500444 | Red Herring Argument | You intentionally digress from the real issue being discussed, introducing a side issue that has nothing to do with the real issue under discussion. | 18 | |
| 14081598928 | Sweeping Or Hasty Generalization | You've reached a conclusion based on only a little evidence that might be relevant but is not typical. | 19 | |
| 14081626509 | Card Stacking | If someone says, "The cards were stacked against me," the speaker is saying he/she was never given a fair chance. This is a complicated one-one side may distort evidence or facts presented, suppress evidence, oversimplify or even suppress facts, etc. | 20 | |
| 14081654981 | Straw Man | A misinterpretation of the opponent's view, making claims that no one actually believes to be true . | 21 | |
| 14081672685 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between related clauses. | 22 | |
| 14081682381 | Polysyndeton | Use of several conjunctions. | 23 | |
| 14081686466 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word. | 24 | |
| 14081700110 | Compound Subject | A sentence in which two or more nouns, noun phrases, or noun clauses constitute the grammatical subject of a clause. | 25 | |
| 14081712387 | Confirmation | In ancient Roman oratory, the part of a speech in which the speaker or writer could offer proof or demonstration of the central idea. | 26 | |
| 14081735700 | Conflict | The struggle of characters with themselves, with others, or with the world around them. | 27 | |
| 14081749953 | Connotation | The implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed "dictionary meaning". | 28 | |
| 14081758628 | Effect | The emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader or listener. | 29 | |
| 14081768820 | Ellipsis | The omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage. | 30 | |
| 14081787433 | Epanalepsis | Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occured at the beginning of the clause. | 31 | |
| 14081795462 | Epithet | A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name. | 32 | |
| 14081812129 | Figurative Language | Language dominated by the use of schemes and tropes. | 33 | |
| 14081823642 | Flashback | A part of the plot that moves back in time and then returns to the present. | 34 | |
| 14081833699 | Generalization | A point that a speaker or writer generations on the basis of considering a number of particular examples. | 35 | |
| 14081848641 | Genre | A piece of writing classified by type. | 36 | |
| 14081853061 | Irony | Writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken. | 37 | |
| 14081871804 | Narration | In ancient roman oratory, the part of speech in which the speaker provided background information on the topic. | 38 | |
| 14081876220 | Pace | The speed with which a plot moves from one event to another. | 39 | |
| 14093120467 | Parallelism | A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph. | 40 | |
| 14093129560 | Parenthesis | A insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence. | 41 | |
| 14093134055 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/or complement. | 42 | |
| 14093146444 | Scheme | An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences. | 43 | |
| 14093151263 | Anecdote | A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to support a generalization of claim. | 44 | |
| 14093158335 | Compound Sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses. | 45 | |
| 14093166776 | Conclusion (of syllogism) | The ultimate point of generalization that a syllogism expresses. | 46 | |
| 14093177912 | Contraction | The combination of two words into one by eliminating one or more sounds and indicating the omission with an apostrophe. | 47 | |
| 14093188360 | Contraries | See contradiction. | 48 | |
| 14093192694 | Data (as evidence) | Facts, statistics, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion. | 49 | |
| 14093208125 | Deductive Reasoning | Reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle. | 50 | |
| 14093213222 | Efferent Reading | Reading to garner information from a text. | 51 | |
| 14093217671 | Enthymeme | Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated | 52 | |
| 14093229536 | Euphemism | An indirect expression of unpleasant information in such way as to lessen its impact. | 53 | |
| 14093237246 | Image | A passage of text that evokes sensation or emotional intensity. | 54 | |
| 14093242324 | Inference | A conclusion that a reader or listener reaches by means of his or her own thinking rather than by being told directly by a text. | 55 | |
| 14093249912 | Narrative Intrusion | A comment that is made directly to the reader by breaking into the forward plot movement. | 56 | |
| 14093257920 | Point of View | The perspective or source of a piece of writing. | 57 | |
| 14093262222 | Ratio | Combination of two or more elements in a dramatistic pentad in order to invent material. | 58 | |
| 14093280584 | Rhetorical Choices | The particular choices a writer or speaker makes to achieve meaning, purpose, or effect. | 59 | |
| 14093285335 | Stock Settings | Stereotypical time and place settings that let readers know a text's genre immediately. | 60 | |
| 14093292261 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words. | 61 | |
| 14093298317 | Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. | 62 | |
| 14093305023 | Anaphora | The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 63 | |
| 14093314819 | Antecedent-Consequence Relationship | The relationship expressed by "if...then" reasoning. | 64 | |
| 14093321488 | Anthimeria | The substitution of one part of speech for another. | 65 | |
| 14093324924 | Appeal | One of three strategies for persuading audiences- logos, appeal to reason, pathos, appeal to emotion, and ethos, appeal to ethics. | 66 | |
| 14093342151 | Appositive | A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning. | 67 | |
| 14093349596 | Argument | A carefully constructed, well-supported representation of how a writer sees an issue, problem, or subject. | 68 | |
| 14093355377 | Aristotelian Triangle | A diagram showing the relations of writer or speaker, audience (reader or listener), and text in a rhetorical situation. | 69 | |
| 14093357840 | Canon | One of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition- invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery. | 70 | |
| 14093374583 | Dramatic Narration | A narrative in which the reader or viewer does not have access to the unspoken thoughts of any character. | 71 | |
| 14093383059 | Dynamic Character | One who changes during the course of the narrative. | 72 | |
| 14093393809 | Evidence | The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim. | 73 | |
| 14093396567 | Metonymy | An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations. | 74 | |
| 14093402380 | Symbol | In a text, an element that stands for more than itself, and, therefore, helps to convey a theme of the text. | 75 | |
| 14093409155 | Tautology | A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed. | 76 | |
| 14093418194 | Thesis | The main idea in a text, often the main generalization, conclusion, or claim. | 77 | |
| 14093430178 | Thesis Statement | A single sentence that states a text's thesis, usually somewhere near the beginning. | 78 | |
| 14093438049 | Topic | A place where writers go to discover methods for proof and strategies for presentation of ideas. | 79 | |
| 14093443819 | Trope | An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas. | 80 | |
| 14093451613 | Voice | The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona. | 81 | |
| 14093470853 | Writing Process | The acts a writer goes through, often recursively, to complete a piece of writing: inverting, investigating, planning, drafting, consulting, revising, and editing. | 82 | |
| 14093492665 | Audience | The person or persons who listen to a spoken text or read a written one and are capable of responding to it. | 83 | |
| 14093505293 | Chiasmus | Inverted relationship between two elements in two parallel phrases. | 84 | |
| 14093512461 | Claim | The ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point that a syllogism or enthymeme expresses. The point, backed up by support, of an argument. | 85 | |
| 14093522499 | Climax | The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing number or importance/ | 86 | |
| 14093528913 | Climbing the Ladder | A term referring to the scheme of climax. | 87 | |
| 14093532606 | Isocolon | Parallel elements that are similar in structure and in length. | 88 | |
| 14093541882 | Mnemonic Device | A systematic aid to memory. | 89 | |
| 14093545241 | Onomatopoeia | A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning. | 90 | |
| 14093549829 | Simple Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and no dependent clause. | 91 | |
| 14093557134 | Allegory | An extended metaphor. | 92 | |
| 14093561360 | Allusion | A reference in a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge. | 93 | |
| 14093574846 | Anastrophe | Inversion or reversal of the usual order of words. | 94 | |
| 14093577384 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure. | 95 | |
| 14093590283 | Cacophony | Words that create harsh, unpleasant sounds. | 96 | |
| 14093594358 | Euphony | Words, or a combination of words, that create harmonious sounds. | 97 | |
| 14094265303 | Synthesaisia | A combination of the senses. | 98 | |
| 14094269420 | Flat character | A figure readily identifiable by memorable traits but not fully developed. | 99 | |
| 14094279623 | Format | The structural elements that constitute the presentation of a writer text. | 100 | |
| 14094286885 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration for effect. | 101 | |
| 14112281433 | Loose Sentences | A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement. | 102 | |
| 14112301506 | Meiosis | Representation of a thing as less than it really is to compel greater esteem for it. | 103 | |
| 14112309405 | Metaphor | An implied comparison that does not use the word like or as. | 104 | |
| 14112317787 | Malaproprism | Using words, particularly polysyllabic words, incorrectly. | 105 | |
| 14112340792 | Oxymoron | Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradicting meanings. | 106 | |
| 14112346874 | Paradox | A contradictory statement or contradictory ideas, but upon close inspection, seems to contain a truth. | 107 | |
| 14112361477 | Parody | The imitative use of words, style, attitude, tone, and ideas of author in such a way as to make them ridiculous. | 108 | |
| 14112391054 | Paralipsis | Irony in which one purposes to pass over a matter, but subtly reveals it. | 109 | |
| 14112400696 | Protagonist | The major character in a piece of literature; the figure in the narrative whose interests the reader is most concerned about and sympathetic toward. | 110 | |
| 14112418162 | Sarcasm | A sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cur or give pain. 2: A mode of satirical wit depending for its effect or bitter, caustic, and often ironic. | 111 | |
| 14112445594 | Satire | The use of irony or ridicule in exposing vice, folly, etc. | 112 | |
| 14112453880 | Setting | The context- including time and place-of a narrative. | 113 | |
| 14112465668 | Sharing | A system calling for writers to read and listen to one another's work and suggest ways to improve. | 114 | |
| 14112478704 | Simile | A type of comparison that uses the word like or as. | 115 | |
| 14112485640 | Syllogism | Logical reasoning from inarguable premises. | 116 | |
| 14112501451 | Synecdoche | A part of something used to refer to the whole. | 117 | |
| 14112514058 | Syntax | The order of words in a sentence. | 118 | |
| 14112516764 | Theme | The message conveyed by a literary work. | 119 | |
| 14112520454 | Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject matter. | 120 | |
| 14112524229 | Understatement | Deliberate playing down of a situation in order to make a point. | 121 | |
| 14112530748 | Unity | The sense that a text is, appropriately, about only one subject and achieves one major purpose or effect. | 122 | |
| 14112547480 | Unreliable Narrator | An untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characters in a story. | 123 | |
| 14112554508 | Verisimilitude | The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience. | 124 | |
| 14112562325 | Zeugma | A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning. | 125 | |
| 14112580967 | Aesthetic Reading | Reading to experience the world of the text. | 126 | |
| 14112585453 | Anachronism | Either and action, character, or thing misplaced in time. | 127 | |
| 14112593302 | Apposition | Two nouns that are adjacent to each other and reference the same thing. | 128 | |
| 14112607915 | Arrangement | In a spoken or written text, the placement of ideas for effect. | 129 | |
| 14112617816 | Archetype | Original (first). | 130 | |
| 14112620691 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words. | 131 | |
| 14112625448 | Assumption | An opinion, a perspective, or a belief that a writer or speaker thinks the audience holds. | 132 | |
| 14112638811 | Attitude | In an adapted dramatistic pentad created by a speaker or writer in order to invent materials, the manner in which an action is carried out. | 133 | |
| 14112646580 | Auxesis | Magnifying the importance of gravity or referring it with a disproportionate name. | 134 | |
| 14112657762 | Bathos | Insincere or overdone sentimentality/pathos. | 135 | |
| 14115301748 | Begging of the Question | The situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept. | 136 | |
| 14115320415 | Casual Relationship | The relationship expressing, "If X is the cause, the Y is the effect," or, "If Y is the effect, then X caused it." | 137 | |
| 14115330011 | Character | A personage in a narrative. | 138 | |
| 14115333150 | Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clause. | 139 | |
| 14115347827 | Compound-Complex Sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 140 | |
| 14115359689 | Conceit | Fairly elaborate figurative device which often incorporates metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or oxymoron. | 141 | |
| 14115370284 | Context | The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated. | 142 | |
| 14115391188 | Contradiction | One of the types of rhetorical invention included under the common topic of relationships. Contradiction urges the speaker or writer to invent an example or a proof that is counter to the main idea or argument. | 143 | |
| 14115397884 | Descriptive Writing | Writing that relies on sensory images to characterize a person or place. | 144 | |
| 14115422340 | Dialect | The describable patterns of language-grammar and vocabulary-used by a particular cultural or ethnic population. | 145 | |
| 14115746231 | Dialogue | Conversation between and among characters | 146 | |
| 14124015694 | Diction | Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/connotative value. | 147 | |
| 14124027898 | Double Entendre | The double meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous. | 148 | |
| 14390124298 | Drafting | The process by which writers get something written on paper or in a computer file so that they can develop their ideas and begin moving towards an end, a start-to-finish product; the raw material for what will become the final product. | 149 | |
| 14390132585 | Dramatic Monologue | A type of poem, popular primarily in the nineteenth century, in which the speaker is delivering a monologue to an assumed group of listeners. | 150 | |
| 14390142283 | Elegy | Poem written that often contains elements of lament and mourning for someone/something. | 151 | |
| 14390147663 | Homily | Either a sermon delivered to a congregation or a written work of admonitory fashion edifying the reader morally. | 152 | |
| 14390153027 | Epistrophe | The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 153 | |
| 14390154453 | Erotema | Asking a question to assert or deny something obliquely not for an answer. | 154 | |
| 14390157678 | Ethos | The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator. | 155 | |
| 14390161316 | Exaggeration | An overstatement. | 156 | |
| 14390162171 | Example | An anecdote or a narrative offered in support of a generalization, claim, or point. | 157 | |
| 14390163961 | Explication | To give a detailed explanation of something; analyze. | 158 | |
| 14390165399 | Exordium | In ancient roman oratory, the introduction of a speech; literally, the "web" meant to draw the audience in the speech. | 159 | |
| 14390170339 | Extended Analogy | An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in one or two ways, they are probably similar in other ways as well. | 160 | |
| 14390173254 | Fable | A narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance. | 161 | |
| 14390177758 | Figures of Rhetoric | Schemes--that is, variations from typical word or sentence formation--and tropes, which are variations from typical patterns of thought. | 162 | |
| 14390179861 | Flashforward | A part of the plot that jumps ahead in time and returns to the present | 163 | |
| 14390180392 | Hubris | Exaggerated pride or self-confidence; often brings about the downfall (pride, arrogance, etc.) | 164 | |
| 14390182060 | Hamartia | Tragic flaw. | 165 | |
| 14390184227 | Anastrophe/Hyperbaton | Unusual or inverted word order. | 166 | |
| 14390185530 | Imagery | Language that evokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader. | 167 | |
| 14390187275 | Implied Metaphor | A metaphor embedded in a sentence rather than expressed directly as a sentence. | 168 | |
| 14390190693 | Jargon | The specialized vocabulary of a particular group. | 169 | |
| 14390191370 | Limited Narration | A narrative in which the reader or viewer has access to the unspoken thoughts of one character or partial thinking of more than one character. | 170 | |
| 14390194431 | Litotes | Understatement | 171 | |
| 14390195974 | Lampoon | A harsh satire usually directed toward someone. | 172 | |
| 14390197363 | Carpe diem | Seize the day | 173 | |
| 14390201864 | Logic | The art of reasoning. | 174 | |
| 14390202531 | Logos | The appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas. | 175 | |
| 14390208249 | Kenning | Two word renaming of a person or object. | 176 | |
| 14390208587 | Mood | The feeling that a text is intended to produce in the audience. | 177 | |
| 14390209921 | Motif | A reoccurring image within a work. | 178 | |
| 14390211071 | Mock Epic | A long, humorous poem written in mock heroic style. | 179 | |
| 14390213457 | Parable | Short story that often illustrates a moral or life lesson. | 180 | |
| 14390214568 | Narrative | An anecdote or a story offered in support of a generalization, claim, or point. Also, a function in texts accomplished when the speaker or writer tells a story. | 181 | |
| 14390217293 | Omniscient Narration | A narrative in which the reader or viewer has access to the unspoken thoughts of all the characters. | 182 | |
| 14390219471 | Onomatopoeia | Words that create sounds. | 183 | |
| 14390220709 | Parable | A usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle. | 184 | |
| 14390226075 | Paradox | A statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless. | 185 | |
| 14390230227 | Paronomasia | To call with a slight change of name; a play on words. | 186 | |
| 14390232153 | Pathos | The appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience. | 187 | |
| 14390233744 | Pathetic fallacy | Attributing human emotion or responses to nature, inanimate objects, or animals. | 188 | |
| 14390237733 | Periphrasis | The substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality characteristic. | 189 | |
| 14390247723 | Persona | The character that a writer or speaker conveys to the audience; the plural is personae. | 190 | |
| 14390250678 | Personification | The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. | 191 | |
| 14390252544 | Persuasion | The changing of people's minds or actions by language. | 192 | |
| 14390256744 | Petitio Principi | Begging of the question; disagreeing with premises or reasoning. | 193 | |
| 14390263607 | Plot | Sequence of events in a story. | 194 | |
| 14390264621 | Plot Devices | Elements of plot that operate to cause or resolve conflicts and to provide information. | 195 | |
| 14390266774 | Poem | Louise Rosenblatt's term for the interpretive moment when reader and text connect. | 196 | |
| 14390267912 | Polyptoton | Repetition of conjunctions in close repetition. | 197 | |
| 14390270855 | Premise, major | The first premise in a syllogism. The major premise states an irrefutable generalization. | 198 | |
| 14390276303 | Premise, minor | The second premise in a syllogism. The minor premise offers a particular instance of the generalization state in the major premise. | 199 | |
| 14390277074 | Prosopopeia | The giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects. | 200 | |
| 14390278407 | Pun | A play on words. Types of puns include antaclasis, words that sound alike but have different meanings; paranomasia, words alike in sound but different in meaning; and syllepsis, a word used differently in relation to two other words it governs or modifys. | 201 | |
| 14390284673 | Purpose | The goal the speaker wants to achieve with the text. Also called aim and interior. In a dramatistic pentad created by a speaker or writer in order in invent material, the words the soeaker uses to describe the reason something happened or happens in a particular situation. | 202 | |
| 14396785511 | Reader's Repertoire | The collection of predictions and revisions a person employs when reading a text. | 203 | |
| 14396789243 | Recursive | Referring to the moving back and forth from invention to revision in the process of writing. | 204 | |
| 14396790974 | Refutation | In ancient Roman oratory, the part of a speech in which the speaker would anticipate objections to the points being raised and counter them. | 205 | |
| 14396793768 | Reliable Narrator | A believable and trustworthy commentator on events and characters in a story. | 206 | |
| 14396797011 | Repetition | In a yext, repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or clauses to emphasize meaning or achieve effect. | 207 | |
| 14396799184 | Rhetor | The speaker who uses elements of rhetoric effectively in oral or written text. | 208 | |
| 14396807778 | Rhetoric | The art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective; the specific features of texts written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners in a situation. | 209 | |
| 14396820931 | Rhetorical Intention | Involvement and investment in and ownership of a piece of writing. | 210 | |
| 14396822234 | Rhetorical Question | A question posed by the speaker or writer not to seek an answer but instead to affirm or deny a point simply by asking a question about it. | 211 | |
| 14396824098 | Rhetorical Triangle | A diagram showing the relations of writer or speaker, reader or listener, and text in a rhetorical situation. | 212 | |
| 14396828386 | Romance Language | A language that is derived from Latin. | 213 | |
| 14396828947 | Round Character | A figure with complexity in action and personality. | 214 | |
| 14396831478 | Sarcasm | The use of mockery or bitter irony. | 215 | |
| 14396833507 | Slang | Informal language, often considered inappropriate for formal occasions and text. | 216 | |
| 14396835701 | Soliloquoy | Dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself or herself. | 217 | |
| 14396837184 | Speaker | The person delivering a speech, or the characters assumed to be speaking a poem. | 218 | |
| 14396838247 | Static Character | A figure who remains the same from the beginning to the end of a narrative. | 219 | |
| 14396839361 | Style | The choices that writers or speakers make in language for effect. | 220 | |
| 14396841019 | Subject | One of the points on the Aristotelian or rhetorical triangle; the subject matter a writer or speaker is writing or speaking about. | 221 | |
| 14396844252 | Subordinate Clause | A group of words that includes a subject and verb but that cannot stand on its own as a sentence; also called a dependent clause. | 222 |
