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| 7186285168 | alliteration | the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 7186287131 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event | 1 | |
| 7186287578 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 7186288277 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 7186288576 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 7186288911 | annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 7186289327 | antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 7186290002 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 7 | |
| 7186290760 | antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 7186291157 | aphorism | a short, astute statement of general truth | 9 | |
| 7186291604 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 10 | |
| 7186294077 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 11 | |
| 7186294978 | argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 7186295311 | aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 7186296521 | assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 14 | |
| 7186297754 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 7186326525 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunction betweens words, phrases, clauses | 16 | |
| 7186329277 | attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 7186330005 | audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 7186330453 | bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 19 | |
| 7186333332 | cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 20 | |
| 7186333671 | claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence | 21 | |
| 7186333915 | close reading | a careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of text | 22 | |
| 7186334975 | colloquial/ism | an informal or conversation use of language | 23 | |
| 7186335394 | common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions | 24 | |
| 7186336031 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 25 | |
| 7186336342 | concession | a reluctant acknowledgment or yielding | 26 | |
| 7186336623 | connotation | that which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 27 | |
| 7186336953 | context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 28 | |
| 7186337214 | coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordination conjugation such as and, or but | 29 | |
| 7186337741 | counterarguement | a challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 30 | |
| 7186338060 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 31 | |
| 7186340306 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 32 | |
| 7186340632 | deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 33 | |
| 7186340861 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word; its dictionary meaning | 34 | |
| 7186340966 | diction | word choice | 35 | |
| 7186341012 | documentation | bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 36 | |
| 7186341602 | elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 37 | |
| 7186341939 | epigram | a brief witty statement | 38 | |
| 7186342407 | ethos | a greek term referring to the character or a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 39 | |
| 7186344795 | figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 40 | |
| 7186345507 | figure of speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather tan conveying a literal meaning | 41 | |
| 7186345836 | hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 42 | |
| 7186346178 | imagery | vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) | 43 | |
| 7186359247 | imperative sentence | a sentence the requests or commands | 44 | |
| 7186359912 | induction | reasoning from specific to general | 45 | |
| 7186360390 | inversion | a sentence in which the verb preceded the subject | 46 | |
| 7186361648 | irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 47 | |
| 7186362031 | juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 48 | |
| 7186362274 | logos | a greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 49 | |
| 7186362962 | 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 | |
| 7186363652 | metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 51 | |
| 7186363974 | occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing | 52 | |
| 7186364336 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | 53 | |
| 7186364549 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 54 | |
| 7186364765 | parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 55 | |
| 7186365572 | 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 | 56 | |
| 7186367685 | persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 57 | |
| 7186367907 | personification | assigning lifelike characterisitics to inanimate objects | 58 | |
| 7186368348 | polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 59 | |
| 7186369357 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjuctions | 60 | |
| 7186369551 | 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. | 61 | |
| 7186371332 | propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 62 | |
| 7186372065 | purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 63 | |
| 7186372322 | refute | to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 64 | |
| 7186372781 | rhetoric | the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion" | 65 | |
| 7186373455 | 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 | 66 | |
| 7186375335 | rhetorical question | a question asked more the produce an effect than to summon an answer | 67 | |
| 7186376013 | rhetorial triangle | a diagram that represent s a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 68 | |
| 7186376651 | satire | an ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against | 69 | |
| 7186377245 | scheme | a pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 70 | |
| 7186378010 | sentence patterns | the arrangement or independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions--such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 71 | |
| 7186379100 | sentence variety | using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 72 | |
| 7186379966 | simile | a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 73 | |
| 7186380241 | simple sentence | a statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 74 | |
| 7186380839 | source | a book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information | 75 | |
| 7186381503 | 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 | 76 | |
| 7186382250 | straw man | a logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | 77 | |
| 7186382956 | style | the distinctive quality or speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 78 | |
| 7186384042 | subject | in rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 79 | |
| 7186384546 | subordinate clause | created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 80 | |
| 7186385186 | subordination | the dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 81 | |
| 7186385824 | syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise | 82 | |
| 7186386290 | syntax | sentence structure | 83 | |
| 7186386508 | synthesize | combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 84 | |
| 7186386946 | theis | the central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 85 | |
| 7186387201 | thesis statement | a statement of the central idea in a work, maybe explicit or implicit | 86 | |
| 7186387531 | tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 87 | |
| 7186387861 | 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 | 88 | |
| 7186388627 | trope | artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 89 | |
| 7186388946 | understatement | lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 90 | |
| 7186389599 | voice | in grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing | 91 | |
| 7186391130 | zuegma | 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 | 92 |
