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| 6609075092 | Abstract Language | -the opposite of concrete language, e.g., justice, love, fairness, freedom, rights... | 0 | |
| 6609075093 | Aesthetic | -concern with beauty | 1 | |
| 6609075094 | Affable | -good natured, sociable | 2 | |
| 6609075095 | Allegory | -using concrete images to express abstract truths | 3 | |
| 6609075096 | Alliteration | -repetition of initial letters of adjacent or closely connected words | 4 | |
| 6609075097 | Allusion | -reference to another work, idea, or text in a given text | 5 | |
| 6609075098 | Ambiguity | -have two possible meanings | 6 | |
| 6609075099 | Amenable | -responsive to suggestion | 7 | |
| 6609075100 | Ample | -enough or more than enough | 8 | |
| 6609075101 | Anachronism | -out of sequence w/r/t time | 9 | |
| 6609075102 | Anaphora | -repetition of word or phrase for special emphasis | 10 | |
| 6609075103 | Anecdote | -short entertaining story often to make a point | 11 | |
| 6609075104 | Anthropomorphism | -attributing human characteristics to non-humans; "Emma, the matriarch of the lion pride, was grieving over the loss of her cub." | 12 | |
| 6609075105 | Antithesis | -that which is opposed to the thesis | 13 | |
| 6609075106 | Aphorism | -pithy observation | 14 | |
| 6609075107 | Apology | -defense of an idea by argument or reason | 15 | |
| 6609075108 | Apostrophe | -an address to someone not present or to an inanimate thing | 16 | |
| 6609075109 | Apposition | -the addition or application of one thing to another thing; e.g., "Linda, the wife of Willy Loman," The wife of Willy Loman is in apposition with Linda. | 17 | |
| 6609075110 | Archetype | -original model; recurrent motif in literature | 18 | |
| 6609075111 | Arid | -dry, (dull reading) | 19 | |
| 6609075112 | Assertion | --a confidently or forcefully stated fact or belief | 20 | |
| 6609075113 | Assonance | -repetition of vowel sounds | 21 | |
| 6609075114 | Asyndeton | -a rhetorical figure involving the deliberate omission of conjunctions | 22 | |
| 6609075115 | Attitude | -a settled way of thinking or feeling toward or about a subject or person | 23 | |
| 6609075116 | Austere | -lacking adornment | 24 | |
| 6609075117 | Bombast | -high sounding language with little meaning | 25 | |
| 6609075118 | Brusque | -abrupt or offhand | 26 | |
| 6609075119 | Candor | -open, honest, without hiding | 27 | |
| 6609075120 | Catalog | -list | 28 | |
| 6609075121 | Causal Relationship | -connection between two events such that effect "B "was determined to be the cause of "A" | 29 | |
| 6609075122 | Caustic | -scathingly sarcastic | 30 | |
| 6609075123 | Chiasmus | -an verbal ordering of items in an XYZ-ZYX pattern; a crosswise arrangement like an X | 31 | |
| 6609075124 | Circumlocution | -speaking indirectly, around the bush | 32 | |
| 6609075125 | Claim | -an assertion in an argument | 33 | |
| 6609075126 | Colloquial | -language used in ordinary conversation; not formal | 34 | |
| 6609075127 | Comprehensive | -complete | 35 | |
| 6609075128 | Conceit | -elaborate metaphor, usually surprising or witty | 36 | |
| 6609075129 | Concrete language | -opposite of Abstract Language; applies to individuals not groups | 37 | |
| 6609075130 | Condescending | -to speak down to someone, to reveal oneself as superior | 38 | |
| 6609075131 | Connotation | --the idea or feeling a word invokes beyond is formal definition | 39 | |
| 6609075132 | Consonance | -the repetition of consonants in adjacent or closely connected words | 40 | |
| 6609075133 | Contemptuous | -showing contempt—feeling a person or thing is worthless/beneath consideration | 41 | |
| 6609075134 | Convention | -established way of doing something | 42 | |
| 6609075135 | Copious | -abundant | 43 | |
| 6609075136 | Critique | -to analyze carefully | 44 | |
| 6609075137 | Decorous | -carefully or artfully stated or put | 45 | |
| 6609075138 | Deleterious | -harmful | 46 | |
| 6609075139 | Denotation | -the formal definition of a term | 47 | |
| 6609075140 | Diction | -word choice a writer makes | 48 | |
| 6609075141 | Didactic | -intended for instruction, inclined to teach | 49 | |
| 6609075142 | Dilettante | -a person with an amateur interest in the arts; not a professional | 50 | |
| 6609075143 | Discredit | -detract from the believability of an argument or person | 51 | |
| 6609075144 | Disparage | -represent as being of little worth; scorn | 52 | |
| 6609075145 | Elegy | -mournful poem, often in lament of the dead | 53 | |
| 6609075146 | Epistrophe | -repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a successive clauses or sentences | 54 | |
| 6609075147 | Ethos | -the character of a speaker, his credibility | 55 | |
| 6609075148 | Eulogy | -speech or writing in praise of a person, sometimes a deceased | 56 | |
| 6609075149 | Euphemism | -a mild or less direct word substituted for one that is harsh or blunt; " I have to go to powder my nose in the ladies' room." | 57 | |
| 6609075150 | Excerpt | -groups of words taken from the original context | 58 | |
| 6609075151 | Exemplary | -useful as an example | 59 | |
| 6609075152 | Exposition | -comprehensive description and explanation | 60 | |
| 6609075153 | Extended Metaphor | -figure of speech whose comparison is carried out at length | 61 | |
| 6609075154 | Facetious | -using inappropriate humor or failing at an attempt at humor | 62 | |
| 6609075155 | Facile-off | -handed, not serious | 63 | |
| 6609075156 | Fastidious | -an over attention to details | 64 | |
| 6609075157 | Figures of Speech | -know 5 of these: metaphor, simile, personification, metonymy, synecdoche | 65 | |
| 6609075158 | Flashback | -in narration a movement from the present to the past | 66 | |
| 6609075159 | Frank | -candid | 67 | |
| 6609075160 | Generalization | -abstracting from particular instances to a universal claim | 68 | |
| 6609075161 | Genre | -literature grouping according to kind | 69 | |
| 6609075162 | Gesticulate | -gesture dramatically | 70 | |
| 6609075163 | Hierarchy | -order of ascending value | 71 | |
| 6609075164 | Homily | -a sermon, usually moral in character | 72 | |
| 6609075165 | Hyperbole | -excessive exaggeration; overstatement for effect | 73 | |
| 6609075166 | Hypothetical | -supposed but not necessarily real or true | 74 | |
| 6609075167 | Imagery | -the use of terms that invoke an image | 75 | |
| 6609075168 | Inference | -a deduction made from evidence and reasoning alone | 76 | |
| 6609075169 | Inversion | -when expected syntactical order of reverse for rhetorical effect | 77 | |
| 6609075170 | Inveterate | -a firmly established, long standing habit | 78 | |
| 6609075171 | Irony | -a species of dissembling, saying one thing and meaning another | 79 | |
| 6609075172 | Isocolon | -where two or more parts of a sentences are the same length and used as parallelism; "I came; I saw; I conquered." | 80 | |
| 6609075173 | Jargon | -special language used in a given profession | 81 | |
| 6609075174 | Juxtaposition | -placing items side by side for comparison or contrasting effects | 82 | |
| 6609075175 | Laudatory | -praise worthy | 83 | |
| 6609075176 | Litotes | -a negative statement used to enforce a positive; "that's not a bad job." | 84 | |
| 6609075177 | Logos | -the material of one's address, the words or speech | 85 | |
| 6609075178 | Malapropism | -mistaken use of a word; "she could dance the flamingo." Should be flamenco. | 86 | |
| 6609075179 | Malfeasance | -wrong doing by a public official | 87 | |
| 6609075180 | Metaphor | -a tacit comparison of two things that evokes an image | 88 | |
| 6609075181 | Meticulous | -very careful | 89 | |
| 6609075182 | Metonymy | - a figure of speech in which a word closely associated with another word is used; "The White House issued a statement today about Comey's firing." | 90 | |
| 6609075183 | Naïve | -lacking experience, innocent | 91 | |
| 6609075184 | Objectivity | -a perspective without a vested or personal interest in a given matter | 92 | |
| 6609075185 | Onomatopoeia | -Sound and meaning of the word are the same | 93 | |
| 6609075186 | Oxymoron | -contradiction in terms | 94 | |
| 6609075187 | Panegyric | -a speech or text in praise of something or someone | 95 | |
| 6609075188 | Paradigm | -a typical example or pattern | 96 | |
| 6609075189 | Paradox | -a seemingly absurd statement that may in fact be true | 97 | |
| 6609075190 | Parallelism | -a verbal structure displaying a similar pattern grammatically or syntactically; "You made me laugh; I made you cry." | 98 | |
| 6609075191 | Parody | -an imitation of a style of a particular writer or genre with exaggeration for comic effect | 99 | |
| 6609075192 | Pathos | -feelings, passions, an appeal to the affects of an audience | 100 | |
| 6609075193 | Pejorative | -derogatory or negative | 101 | |
| 6609075194 | Periodic sentence | -sentence in which the verb element is placed at the end for effect; "With low taxes, beautiful views and a mild climate, this city is a great place to live." | 102 | |
| 6609075195 | Permeated | -spread through out | 103 | |
| 6609075196 | Personification | -attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects | 104 | |
| 6609075197 | Pervasive | -widespread | 105 | |
| 6609075198 | Phenomenon | -appearance of something often suggesting its rarity | 106 | |
| 6609075199 | Point of view | -in writing the perspective of the narrator | 107 | |
| 6609075200 | Polysyndeton | -items in a series each joined with a conjunction; I went crazy at the market, I bought apples and oranges and bananas and avocados and peaches. | 108 | |
| 6609075201 | Pragmatic | -practical | 109 | |
| 6609075202 | Prodigious | -remarkably large | 110 | |
| 6609075203 | Propitious | -favorable (generally toward a person); giving or indicating a good chance of success | 111 | |
| 6609075204 | Propriety | -correctness concerning standards | 112 | |
| 6609075205 | Prose | -that which is not poetry | 113 | |
| 6609075206 | Pun | -verbal joke based on ambiguity of meaning in a word | 114 | |
| 6609075207 | Rebuttal | -a refutation in argument | 115 | |
| 6609075208 | Repetition | -a repeated word or phrase for effect | 116 | |
| 6609075209 | Replete | -filled or well-supplied with | 117 | |
| 6609075210 | Rhetoric | -the art of persuasion by every possible means at one's disposal | 118 | |
| 6609075211 | Rhetorical question | -question whose answer is not really sought | 119 | |
| 6609075212 | Sarcasm | -saying one thing but meaning its opposite | 120 | |
| 6609075213 | Sardonic | -grimly mocking or cynical | 121 | |
| 6609075214 | Satire | -use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity | 122 | |
| 6609075215 | Simile | -overt comparison of two things | 123 | |
| 6609075216 | Situational irony | --irony dependent upon a situation or event | 124 | |
| 6609075217 | Style | -the manner of doing something; distinctive appearance or design; a writer's trademark | 125 | |
| 6609075218 | Symbol | -a thing that represents or stands for something else | 126 | |
| 6609075219 | Synecdoche | -a figure of speech that takes a part of something for the whole; "All hands on deck," the captain shouted to the sailors. (hands is a part of a person, standing for the whole person) | 127 | |
| 6609075220 | Syntax | -arrangement of words that creates meaningful sentences | 128 | |
| 6609075221 | Theme | -subject or topic on which a person speaks or writes | 129 | |
| 6609075222 | Timorous | -fearful, shy | 130 | |
| 6609075223 | Tone | -the emotional stance or attitude a writer has to her subject matter | 131 | |
| 6609075224 | Toxic | -poisonous | 132 | |
| 6609075225 | Understatement | -a rhetorical expression that describes something with less significance than it really has | 133 | |
| 6609075226 | Venerated | -honored | 134 | |
| 6609075227 | Verbal irony | --when a speaker or writer says one thing but believes another | 135 | |
| 6609075228 | Vilify | -to speak or write about someone in an abusive or disparaging manner | 136 | |
| 6609075229 | Voice | -the particularly identifying features of a given writer | 137 | |
| 6609075230 | Zeugma | -- a single word applies to two others in a different sense; "she broke his car and his heart." | 138 |
