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| 2454447198 | Ad Hominem | appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect. | 0 | |
| 2454459350 | Argument | a statement or series of statements for or against something. A reason given in proof or rebuttal. | 1 | |
| 2454463165 | Allegory | a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation. (extended metaphor) | 2 | |
| 2454473815 | Alliteration | the use of words that begin with the same sound and that are located near each other. | 3 | |
| 2454479483 | Allusion | a statement that refers to something well-known without mentioning it directly. | 4 | |
| 2454484923 | Ambiguity | something that does not have a single clear meaning; uncertainty. | 5 | |
| 2454488170 | Analogy | a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way. | 6 | |
| 2454490463 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive clauses. | 7 | |
| 2454498055 | Anecdote | a short account of an interesting event. | 8 | |
| 2454500103 | Annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 9 | |
| 2454503825 | Antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 10 | |
| 2454507480 | Antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 11 | |
| 2454510551 | Antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 12 | |
| 2454514136 | Aphorism | a short acute statement of a general truth. | 13 | |
| 2454516808 | Apostrophe | the addressing of a usually absent person or an usually personified thing rhetorically. Speaker detaches from reality to address. | 14 | |
| 2454541255 | Appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 15 | |
| 2455417259 | Archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period. | 16 | |
| 2455645017 | Argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence. | 17 | |
| 2455648140 | Assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration; lacking supporting evidence. | 18 | |
| 2455653710 | Assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 19 | |
| 2455657652 | Asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 20 | |
| 2455661966 | Attitude | the speaker's position on a subject revealed through his/her tone. | 21 | |
| 2455666002 | Audience | those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 22 | |
| 2455670760 | Authority | a reliable. respectable source-someone with knowledge. | 23 | |
| 2455675673 | Bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 24 | |
| 2455680526 | Chiasmus | an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases. | 25 | |
| 2455685209 | Cite | identifying a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 26 | |
| 2455688083 | Claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 27 | |
| 2455690389 | Clause | part of a sentence having its own subject and verb. | 28 | |
| 2455694936 | Colloquialism | an informal/ conversational use of language. | 29 | |
| 2455697492 | Common Ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 30 | |
| 2455699396 | Complex Sentence | includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 31 | |
| 2455703565 | Conceit | an idea that shows imagination. | 32 | |
| 2455718499 | Concession | a reluctant acknowledgement or yielding. | 33 | |
| 2455723832 | Connotation | that which is implied by a word as opposed the words literal meaning. | 34 | |
| 2455726996 | Context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 35 | |
| 2455730132 | Coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction. | 36 | |
| 2455757959 | Counterargument | a challenge to an opinion; opposing argument. | 37 | |
| 2455760710 | Credible | worthy of belief; trustworthy. | 38 | |
| 2455763598 | Cumulative Sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 39 | |
| 2455768398 | Declarative Sentence | a sentence that makes a statement. | 40 | |
| 2455776910 | Deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 41 | |
| 2455778383 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 42 | |
| 2455780859 | Device | something designed to achieve a particular artistic effect. | 43 | |
| 2455784414 | Didactic | designed or intended to teach people something. | 44 | |
| 2455786986 | Elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost, often used to describe tone. | 45 | |
| 2455791751 | Epigrame | a brief witty statement | 46 | |
| 2455795698 | Euphemism | a mild or pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive. | 47 | |
| 2455799137 | Ethos | a Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's 3 rhetorical appeals. | 48 | |
| 2455803076 | Extended Metaphor | a metaphor continued throughout a work of literature. | 49 | |
| 2455806332 | Facts | information that is true or demonstrable. | 50 | |
| 2455831855 | Figurative Language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 51 | |
| 2459978705 | Figure of Speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 52 | |
| 2459989259 | Fragment | a word; phrase; or clause that does not form a full sentence. | 53 | |
| 2460003180 | Genre | a particular type or category of literature or art. | 54 | |
| 2460013821 | Homily | a usually short talk on a religious or moral topic. | 55 | |
| 2460052475 | Hortatary | urging or strongly encouraging. | 56 | |
| 2460053717 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 57 | |
| 2463360155 | Imagery | vivid use of language that evokes a readers senses. | 58 | |
| 2463364312 | Imperative Sentences | a sentence that requests or commands | 59 | |
| 2463367443 | Induction | reasoning from specific to general | 60 | |
| 2463369572 | Infer | to form a opinion based on evidence | 61 | |
| 2463371500 | Invective | harsh or insulting words | 62 | |
| 2463374664 | Inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 63 | |
| 2463377202 | Irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant. | 64 | |
| 2463379849 | Juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 65 | |
| 2463382340 | Language | words of a particular kind | 66 | |
| 2463385428 | Logical Fallacy | common errors in reasoning that will undermine your arguments. | 67 | |
| 2463387758 | Logos | an appeal to the logic | 68 | |
| 2463388699 | Loose Sentence | main clause is followed by one or more coordinate or subordinate clauses. | 69 | |
| 2463391755 | Metaphor | a figure of speech or trophe through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making it an implicit comparison. | 70 | |
| 2463396681 | Metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 71 | |
| 2463400009 | Modes of Discourse | four different categories of writing. (narration, description, exposition, and argument). | 72 | |
| 2463404992 | Modifier | a word, phrase, or clause that clarifies or describes another word, phrase, or clause. | 73 | |
| 2463410417 | Mood | the feeling the reader gets | 74 | |
| 2463412980 | Narration | retelling an event or a series of events. | 75 | |
| 2463414364 | Nominalization | turning a verb or adjective into a noun | 76 | |
| 2463416261 | Occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 77 | |
| 2463421158 | Omniscient Narrator | an all-knowing, usually 3rd person narrator. | 78 | |
| 2463423207 | Onomatopoeia | the creation of words that imitate natural sounds. | 79 | |
| 2463424988 | Oxymoron | figure of speech that combines 2 contradictory terms. | 80 | |
| 2463432347 | Pacing | relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented. | 81 | |
| 2463436450 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 82 | |
| 2463452548 | Parallelism | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 83 | |
| 2463458208 | Parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another. | 84 | |
| 2463461113 | Pathos | appeals to emotion. | 85 | |
| 2463462665 | Pedantic | meticulous, particular | 86 | |
| 2463480645 | Periodic Sentence | a sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause. | 87 | |
| 2467403990 | Persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 88 | |
| 2467405936 | Personification | assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 89 | |
| 2467408340 | Polemic | an argument against a idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. | 90 | |
| 2467416200 | Polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 91 | |
| 2467418230 | Point of View | the angle from where a story is told. | 92 | |
| 2467419893 | Predicate Adjective | an adjective that is used to predicate an attribute of the subject of the sentence. | 93 | |
| 2467426117 | Predicate Nominative | the traditional term for a noun, pronoun, or other nominal that follows a linking verb. | 94 | |
| 2467429039 | Premise | two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise. | 95 | |
| 2467439431 | Pronoun | a word used to replace a noun or phrase. | 96 | |
| 2467442078 | Propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 97 | |
| 2467447290 | Prose | writing that is not poetry. | 98 | |
| 2467474997 | Purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 99 | |
| 2467509433 | Refute | to discredit a argument, particularly a counterargument. | 100 | |
| 2467512734 | Repetition | the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. | 101 | |
| 2467517718 | Rhetoric | the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "avail means of persuasion." | 102 | |
| 2467524438 | Rhetorical Appeals | Ethos, Pathos, and Logos | 103 | |
| 2467525973 | Rhetorical Modes | patterns of organization | 104 | |
| 2467529230 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 105 | |
| 2467533080 | Rhetorical Strategies | Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. | 106 | |
| 2467535739 | Satire | an ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 107 | |
| 2467538541 | Sarcasm | mocking, ironic, or satirical remark, usually to wound as well as amuse. | 108 | |
| 2467541006 | Scheme | a pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 109 | |
| 2467543974 | Sentence Patterns | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions. | 110 | |
| 2467548872 | Sentence Structure | the way a structure is set-up and the make-up of it. | 111 | |
| 2467551290 | Sentence Variety | using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 112 | |
| 2467553541 | Simile | a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 113 | |
| 2467556797 | Simple Sentence | a statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 114 | |
| 2467560807 | Speaker | a term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing. | 115 | |
| 2467565903 | Straw man | Fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 116 | |
| 2467571458 | Style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 117 | |
| 2467577646 | Stylistic devices | the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling to the literal or written. | 118 | |
| 2467582128 | Subject | the topic addressed in a writing. | 119 | |
| 2467586323 | Subject Complement | the adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb. | 120 | |
| 2467587860 | Subordinate Clause | created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause modifies an independent clause. | 121 | |
| 2467592031 | Subordination | the dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 122 | |
| 2467595634 | Syllogism | form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise. | 123 | |
| 2467599564 | Symbol | a thing that stands for or represents something else. | 124 | |
| 2467601895 | Syntax | sentence structure | 125 | |
| 2467603601 | Synthesis | combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 126 | |
| 2467848728 | Theme | the subject of a piece or writing. | 127 | |
| 2467850339 | Thesis | the central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 128 | |
| 2467854184 | Tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 129 | |
| 2467857796 | Transition | a way to move from one idea to the next. | 130 | |
| 2467859687 | Trope | artful diction. The use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 131 | |
| 2467862749 | Understatement | lack of emphasis in a statement or point. | 132 | |
| 2467872697 | Voice | a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 133 | |
| 2467875640 | Zeugma | a construction in which one word modifies or governs two or more words in a sentence. | 134 |
