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| 7271620139 | Allegory | A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. often a universal symbol or personified abstraction. | 0 | |
| 7271628066 | Alliteration | The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound usually applied to consonants usually in closely proximate stressed syllables | 1 | |
| 7271631119 | Allusion | A literary, historical, religious, or mythology reference in a literary work | 2 | |
| 7271641630 | Anaphora | The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of a successive phrases or clauses | 3 | |
| 7271649406 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of a sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words; phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas | 4 | |
| 7271658928 | aphorism | A concise statement design to make a point or illustrate commonly held belief | 5 | |
| 7271668315 | Appeals to... authority, emotion, logic: | rhetorical argument in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in the field or attempts to play upon the emotions or appeals to the use of reason | 6 | |
| 7271675180 | Apostrophe | an address or invocation to something inanimate | 7 | |
| 7271681165 | assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds usually in successive proximate words | 8 | |
| 7271686461 | Asyndeton | A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series usually producing more rapid prose | 9 | |
| 7271816912 | attitude | The sense express by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing the authors feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme it might even be his or her feelings for the reader | 10 | |
| 7271827712 | Begging the question | argumentative play where the arguer sidesteps the question for the conflict evades or ignores the real question | 11 | |
| 7271834039 | Canon | that which has been excepted as authentic | 12 | |
| 7271836548 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure where in the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second | 13 | |
| 7271844552 | Colloquial | A term identifying the diction of the common ordinary folks especially in a specific region or area | 14 | |
| 7271847312 | Conceit | A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature in particular and extended metaphor within a poem | 15 | |
| 7271858137 | connotation | The implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase | 16 | |
| 7271866915 | consonance | The repetition of two or more Consonants with a change in intervening vowels | 17 | |
| 7271878133 | Critique | an assessment or analysis of something such as a passage of writing for determining what it is, what its limitations are and how it conforms the standard of the genre | 18 | |
| 7271886680 | deductive reasoning | The method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles movement from the general to the specific | 19 | |
| 7271889223 | Dialect | The language and speech indiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group | 20 | |
| 7271897923 | Diction | The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone purpose or effect | 21 | |
| 7271901016 | didactic | writing or speech that has an instructive purpose or a lesson; often associated with a dry, pompous presentation | 22 | |
| 7271917743 | Elegy | A poem or prose that laments or meditates upon the death of a person | 23 | |
| 7271922932 | Epistrophe | in rhetoric, the repetition of the phrase at the end of a successive sentence | 24 | |
| 7271925991 | Epitaph | writing in praise of a dead person most often inscribed upon a headstone | 25 | |
| 7271927898 | Ethos | in rhetoric, the appeal of a textbook to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator | 26 |
