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| 7163375180 | Alliteration | the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 7163380561 | Allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or historical event | 1 | |
| 7163381408 | Analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 7163383238 | Anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 7163385016 | Anecdote | a short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 7163385588 | Annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 7163387426 | Antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun references | 6 | |
| 7163388870 | Antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 7 | |
| 7163389876 | Antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 7163391237 | Aphorism | a short, astute statement of a general truth | 9 | |
| 7163391850 | Appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 10 | |
| 7163394307 | Archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 11 | |
| 7163394654 | Argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 7163397071 | Aristotelian triangle: | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle) | 13 | |
| 7163397507 | Assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 14 | |
| 7163398600 | Assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 7163399887 | Asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 16 | |
| 7163400296 | Attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 7163401846 | Audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 7163403206 | Authority | a reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 7163404604 | Bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 20 | |
| 7163405032 | Cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 21 | |
| 7163406109 | Claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 7163406701 | Close reading | a careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text | 23 | |
| 7163407690 | Colloquial/ism | an informal or conversational use of language | 24 | |
| 7163410668 | Common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions | 25 | |
| 7163412119 | Complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 7163413559 | Concession | a reluctant acknowledgment or yielding | 27 | |
| 7163415429 | Connotation | that which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (see denotation) | 28 | |
| 7163416254 | Context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 29 | |
| 7163419971 | Coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 30 | |
| 7163420970 | Counterargument | a challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 7163422729 | Cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
| 7163424732 | Declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 33 | |
| 7163433102 | Deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 7163433640 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 35 | |
| 7163434432 | Diction | word choice | 36 | |
| 7163437199 | Documentation | bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 37 | |
| 7163437681 | Elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 38 | |
| 7163438471 | Epigram | a brief witty statement | 39 | |
| 7163439180 | Ethos | a Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos) | 40 | |
| 7163440257 | Figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 41 | |
| 7163442192 | Figure of speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning | 42 | |
| 7163443024 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 43 | |
| 7163443640 | Imagery | vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) | 44 | |
| 7163445145 | Imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands | 45 | |
| 7163445573 | Induction | reasoning from specific to general. Inversion: A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject | 46 | |
| 7163446964 | Irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 47 | |
| 7163448078 | Juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 48 | |
| 7163448708 | Logos | a Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) | 49 | |
| 7163449592 | Metaphor | a figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison | 50 | |
| 7163452370 | Metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 51 | |
| 7163454750 | Occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing | 52 | |
| 7163455465 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | 53 | |
| 7163457163 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 54 | |
| 7163457534 | Parallelism | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 55 | |
| 7163458073 | Parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 56 | |
| 7163460482 | Pathos | a Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and logos) | 57 | |
| 7163461376 | Persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 58 | |
| 7163462538 | Personification | assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | 59 | |
| 7163470878 | Polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 60 | |
| 7163471743 | Polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 61 | |
| 7163472658 | Premise | major, minor- 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. Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All horses are mammals. Conclusion: All horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism). | 62 | |
| 7163476959 | Propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 63 | |
| 7163478320 | Purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 64 | |
| 7163478764 | Refute | to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 65 | |
| 7163479926 | Rhetoric | the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion" | 66 | |
| 7163482173 | Rhetorical modes | patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation | 67 | |
| 7163482895 | Rhetorical question | a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer | 68 | |
| 7163483685 | Rhetorical triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle) | 69 | |
| 7163487809 | Satire | an ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 70 | |
| 7163488498 | Scheme | a pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 71 | |
| 7163489033 | Sentence patterns | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 72 | |
| 7163490160 | Sentence variety | using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 73 | |
| 7163490668 | Simile | a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 74 | |
| 7163491685 | Simple sentence | a statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 75 | |
| 7163492434 | Source | a book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information | 76 | |
| 7163493689 | Speaker | a term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 77 | |
| 7163494455 | Straw man | a logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | 78 | |
| 7163495023 | Style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 79 | |
| 7163497870 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 80 | |
| 7163498574 | Subordinate clause | created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 81 | |
| 7163499333 | Subordination | the dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 82 | |
| 7163500253 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise (see premise; major, and minor). | 83 | |
| 7163501615 | Syntax | sentence structure | 84 | |
| 7163502230 | Synthesize | combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 85 | |
| 7163502622 | Thesis | the central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 86 | |
| 7163503934 | Thesis statement | a statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit | 87 | |
| 7163504194 | Tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 88 | |
| 7163504698 | Topic sentence | a sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis | 89 | |
| 7163507409 | Trope | artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 90 | |
| 7163508419 | Understatement | lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 91 | |
| 7163509923 | Voice | in grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing | 92 | |
| 7163510485 | Zeugma | a construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence | 93 |
