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| 7175951512 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 0 | |
| 7175955492 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 1 | |
| 7175956415 | antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 2 | |
| 7175957370 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 3 | |
| 7175958939 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 4 | |
| 7175960065 | assertion | an emphatic statement, declaration; an assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 5 | |
| 7175961788 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 6 | |
| 7175963440 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 7 | |
| 7175964554 | authority | a reliable, respected source; someone with knowledge | 8 | |
| 7175965555 | chiasmus | a rhetorical device in which certain words, sounds, concepts, or syntactic structures are reversed or repeated in reverse order | 9 | |
| 7175969652 | close reading | a careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative reading, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text | 10 | |
| 7175974904 | colloquialism | an informal or conversational use of language | 11 | |
| 7175975469 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 12 | |
| 7175978647 | counterargument | challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 13 | |
| 7175980410 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 14 | |
| 7175984232 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 15 | |
| 7175985395 | idiom | a word or phrase that is not taken literally (like "bought the farm" has nothing to do with purchasing real estate, but refers to dying). Avoid idioms in your writing! | 16 | |
| 7175989963 | imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands | 17 | |
| 7175990350 | inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject | 18 | |
| 7175991681 | juxtaposition | placement of things side by side for emphasis | 19 | |
| 7175992997 | metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 20 | |
| 7175993768 | occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing | 21 | |
| 7175996479 | polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 22 | |
| 7175998510 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 23 | |
| 7175999449 | 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 | 24 | |
| 7176002343 | major premise | all mammals are warm-blooded | 25 | |
| 7176002922 | minor premise | all horses are mammals | 26 | |
| 7176007538 | conclusion | all horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism) | 27 | |
| 7176008475 | refute | to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 28 | |
| 7176010905 | rhetorical modes | patterns of organizations 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 | 29 | |
| 7176026001 | scheme | a pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 30 | |
| 7176029155 | sentence pattern | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions, such as simple, compound, or compound-complex | 31 | |
| 7176034403 | simple sentence | a statement containing a subject and a predicate; an independent clause | 32 | |
| 7176036801 | style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 33 | |
| 7176039411 | subordinate clause | created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 34 | |
| 7176041951 | syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and a minor premise (see premise; major, and minor) | 35 | |
| 7176043799 | syntax | sentence structure | 36 | |
| 7176044117 | synthesize | combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 37 | |
| 7176045804 | understatement | lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 38 | |
| 7176047619 | 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 | 39 |
