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| 7020630642 | Antagonist | The character who opposes the interests of the protagonist. | 0 | |
| 7020634856 | antanaclasis | Repetition of a word in two different senses. | 1 | |
| 7020639625 | 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 | |
| 7020641581 | antimetabole | The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 3 | |
| 7020642801 | apostrophe | The direct address of an absent person or personified object as if he/she/it is able to reply. | 4 | |
| 7020647969 | 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 | |
| 7020650338 | argument by analysis | An argument developed by breaking the subject matter into its component parts. | 6 | |
| 7020653742 | appeal to emotion | The appeal of a text to the feelings or interests of the audience. | 7 | |
| 7020661490 | bombast | inflated or extravagant language | 8 | |
| 7020667083 | deus ex machine | 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 | |
| 7020671870 | logical fallacles | Logical fallacies are errors in reasoning. If you become familiar with them, you can identify logical fallacies in others' arguments. You can also avoid using logical fallacies in your own writing . . . or if you're very clever, use them to your advantage to convince others of something. | 10 | |
| 7020686822 | post hoc Fallacy | Just because Event A happened before Event B, you assume that Event A caused Event B. | 11 | |
| 7020695201 | non sequitur fallacy | This is 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 | |
| 7020700291 | ad hominem argument | You attack the person instead of the person's argument or point of view on a subject. | 13 | |
| 7020706761 | 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 | |
| 7020724315 | begging the question | Asking the reader to assume that something is true without proving it first--especially flawed if that "something" is controversial. | 15 | |
| 7020738474 | false analogy | You assume that because two things share some characteristics, they are alike in all respects. | 16 | |
| 7020748372 | 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 | |
| 7020760090 | 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--in an attempt to remove attention from the real issue. | 18 | |
| 7020766386 | sweeping or hasty generalization | You've reached a conclusion based on only a little evidence that might be relevant but is not typical. | 19 | |
| 7020798640 | 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 | |
| 7020808059 | straw man | A misrepresentation of the opponent's view; making claims that no one actually believes to be true. | 21 | |
| 7020826793 | aporia | a device writers will use to express doubt about an idea. | 22 | |
| 7020833536 | polysyndeton | use of too many conjunctions | 23 | |
| 7020851504 | denotation | dictionary definitions | 24 | |
| 7020846151 | asyndeton | omitting conjunctions | 25 | |
| 7020862532 | compound subject | A sentence in which two or more nouns, noun phrases, or noun clauses constitute the grammatical subject of a clause | 26 | |
| 7020864143 | 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. | 27 | |
| 7020883959 | conflict | The struggle of characters with themselves, with others, or with the world around them. | 28 | |
| 7020897106 | connotation | The implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed "dictionary meaning." | 29 | |
| 7020902149 | effect | The emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader or listener. | 30 | |
| 7020911665 | epithet | A word of phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name. | 31 | |
| 7020910118 | ellipsis | The omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage. | 32 | |
| 7020908560 | epanalepsis | Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause. | 33 | |
| 7020957408 | figurative language | Language dominated by the use of schemes and tropes. | 34 | |
| 7020964803 | flashback | A part of the plot that moves back in time and then returns to the present. | 35 | |
| 7020972086 | generalization | A point that a speaker or writer generations on the basis of considering a number of particular | 36 | |
| 7020981466 | genre | A piece of writing classified by type. | 37 | |
| 7020991981 | irony | Writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken. | 38 | |
| 7020998006 | narration | In ancient Roman oratory, the part of a speech in which the speaker provided background information on the topic. | 39 | |
| 7021007041 | pace | The speed with which a plot moves from one event to another. | 40 | |
| 7021013827 | parallelism | A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph. | 41 | |
| 7023819271 | zeugma | A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning. | 42 | |
| 7023821598 | aesthetic reading | Reading to experience the world of the text. | 43 | |
| 7023822862 | Anachronism | either and action, character, or thing misplaced in time | 44 | |
| 7023827399 | apposition | Two nouns that are adjacent to each other and reference the same thing. | 45 | |
| 7023830216 | arrangement | In a spoken or written text, the placement of ideas for effect. | 46 | |
| 7023832679 | Archetype | original (first) | 47 | |
| 7023834442 | assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words. | 48 | |
| 7023835275 | assumption | An opinion, a perspective, or a belief that a writer or speaker thinks the audience holds. | 49 | |
| 7023837134 | 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. | 50 | |
| 7023838191 | auxesis | Magnifying the importance or gravity of something by referring it with a disproportionate name. | 51 | |
| 7023841846 | Bathos | insincere or overdone sentimentality/pathos | 52 | |
| 7023845608 | causal relationship | The relationship expressing, "If X is the cause, then Y is the effect," or, "If Y is the effect, then X caused it." | 53 | |
| 7023846638 | character | A personage in a narrative. | 54 | |
| 7023847632 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. | 55 | |
| 7023848583 | compound-complex sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 56 | |
| 7023850562 | Conceit | fairly elaborate figurative device which often incorporates metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or oxymoron (essentially an extended analogy or comparison incorporating figurative devices) | 57 | |
| 7023852238 | context | The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated. | 58 | |
| 7023853868 | 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. | 59 | |
| 7023857678 | descriptive writing | Writing that relies on sensory images to characterize a person or place. | 60 | |
| 7023860511 | dialect | The describable patterns of language--grammar and vocabulary--used by a particular cultural or ethnic population. | 61 | |
| 7023860988 | dialogue | Conversation between and among characters. | 62 | |
| 7023862390 | diction | Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/connotative value. | 63 | |
| 7023864673 | double entendre | The double meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous. | 64 | |
| 7023866248 | 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 toward an end, a start-to-finish product; the raw material for what will become the final product. | 65 | |
| 7023868071 | 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. | 66 | |
| 7023869228 | Elegy: | poem written that often contains elements of lament and mourning for someone/something. | 67 | |
| 7023871271 | Homily | either a sermon delivered to a congregation or a written work of admonitory fashion edifying the reader morally. | 68 | |
| 7023872726 | epistrophe | The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses. | 69 | |
| 7023874632 | erotema | Asking a question to assert or deny something obliquely not for an answer. | 70 | |
| 7023876036 | ethos | The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator. | 71 | |
| 7023877643 | exaggeration | An overstatement. | 72 | |
| 7023878863 | example | An anecdote or a narrative offered in support of a generalization, claim, or point. | 73 | |
| 7023879867 | Explication | to give a detailed explanation of something; analyze | 74 | |
| 7023880609 | exordium | In ancient roman oratory, the introduction of a speech; literally, the "web" meant to draw the audience in the speech. | 75 | |
| 7023882274 | 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. | 76 | |
| 7023883276 | fable | A narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance. | 77 | |
| 7023884365 | figures of rhetoric | Schemes--that is, variations from typical word or sentence formation--and tropes, which are variations from typical patterns of thought. | 78 | |
| 7023886943 | flashforward | A part of the plot that jumps ahead in time and returns to the present. | 79 | |
| 7023887945 | Hubris | exaggerated pride or self-confidence; often brings about the downfall (pride, arrogance,etc.) | 80 | |
| 7023888783 | Hamartia | tragic flaw | 81 | |
| 7023889854 | Hypophora | a strategy in which a speaker raises a question and then immediately answers it | 82 |
