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| 5401094253 | Abstract | A word that refers to general qualities, conditions, ideas, actions or relationships that cannot be directly perceived by the senses: bravery, dedication, excellence, anxiety, stress, thinking or hatred | 0 | |
| 5401094254 | Ad hominem argument | Comes from the Latin phrase meaning "to the man." It refers to an argument that attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand. | 1 | |
| 5401094255 | Allegory | a fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts. In Paul Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress for example the characters named Faithful, Mercy and Mr. Worldly Wiseman are clearly meant to represent types of people rather than to be characters in their own rights | 2 | |
| 5401094256 | Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds usually at the beginning of words: The repeated "T" and "C" sounds in the sentence, "The tall tamarack trees shaded the cozy cabin," are examples | 3 | |
| 5401094257 | Allusion | a passing reference to a familiar person, place or thing drawn from history the Bible mythology or literature. An economical way for a writer to capture the essence of an idea, atmosphere, emotion, or historical era. a reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing idea or person | 4 | |
| 5401094258 | Ambiguity: ambiguous | something that is uncertain or indefinite; it is subject to more than one interpretation | 5 | |
| 5401094259 | Analogy | asks the reader to think about the correspondence or resemblance between two things that are essentially different; a form of comparison in which the writer explains something unfamiliar by comparing it to something familiar | 6 | |
| 5401094260 | Analytical reading | reading actively, paying close attention to both the content in the structure of the text. _________ often involves answering several basic questions about the piece of writing under consideration | 7 | |
| 5401094261 | Antecedent | Every pronoun refers back to a previous noun or pronoun - the _________; __________is the grammatical term for the noun of or pronoun from which another pronoun derives its meaning | 8 | |
| 5401094262 | Antithesis | an opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses | 9 | |
| 5401094263 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker | 10 | |
| 5401094264 | Apotheosis | derived from the Greek word deify. Occurs in literature when a character or a thing is elevated to such a high status that appears godlike | 11 | |
| 5401094265 | Appositive | a word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity. __________ are usually set off by commas | 12 | |
| 5401094266 | Appropriateness | word choice | 13 | |
| 5401094267 | Argument | one of the four basic types of prose. To_____is to attempt to convince the reader to agree with a point of view, to make a given decision, or to pursue a particular course of action. Logical ______ is based on reasonable explanations and appeals to the reader's intelligence | 14 | |
| 5401094268 | Assertion | The thesis, claim, or proposition that a writer puts forward in an argument | 15 | |
| 5401094269 | Assonance | a type of internal rhyming in which vowel sounds are repeated. For instance listen to the __________ caused by the repeated short "o" sounds in the phrase ,"the pot's rocky, pocked surface." | 16 | |
| 5401094270 | Assumption | A belief or principle, stated or implied, that is taken for granted | 17 | |
| 5401094271 | Asyndeton | occurs when the conjunctions (such, as, and, or, but) that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence | 18 | |
| 5401094272 | Atmosphere | the emotional feeling - or mood - of a place, scene, or event | 19 | |
| 5401094273 | Attitude | describes the feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea. For example, a writer can think very positively or very negatively about a subject. In most cases, the writer's ______ fall somewhere between these two extremes. This expression is often used as a synonym for tone | 20 | |
| 5401094274 | Audience | the intended readership for a piece of writing. | 21 | |
| 5401094275 | Bathos | A false or forced emotion that is often humorous | 22 | |
| 5401094276 | Beginning | A _______ is the sentence, group of sentences or section that introduces an essay | 23 | |
| 5401094277 | Cause and effect analysis | one of the types of exposition. Answers the question why? It explains the reasons for an occurrence or the consequence of an action | 24 | |
| 5401094278 | Claim | The thesis or proposition put forth in argument | 25 | |
| 5401094279 | Classification | One of the types of exposition. Sorts people, places, or things into categories according to their differing characteristics, thus making them more manageable for the writer and more understandable for the reader | 26 | |
| 5401094280 | Cliché | an expression that has become ineffective through overuse. Expressions such as quick as a flash, dry as dust, jump for joy and slow as molasses are all examples. | 27 | |
| 5401769806 | Coherence | a quality of good writing that results when all sentences, paragraphs and longer divisions of an essay are naturally connected | 28 | |
| 5401769807 | Colloquial expressions | characteristic of or appropriate to spoken language or to writing that seeks its effect. Informal, as chem., gym, come up with, be at loose ends, won't and photo illustrate. Thus, _________________ are acceptable in formal writing only if they are used purposefully | 29 | |
| 5401769808 | Comparison and contrast | One of the types of exposition. In _______________, the writer point out the similarities and differences between two or more subjects in the same class or category. The function is to clarify - to reach some conclusions about the items | 30 | |
| 5401769809 | Conclusions | A ________ is a sentence or group of sentences that brings an essay to closure | 31 | |
| 5401769810 | Concrete | names a specific object, person, place or action that can be directly perceived by the senses: car, bread, building, book, Abraham Lincoln, Toronto or hiking | 32 | |
| 5401769811 | Connotation | the implied or suggested meaning of a word. | 33 | |
| 5401769812 | Controlling idea | a statement of the main idea of an essay, may sometimes be implied rather than stated directly | 34 | |
| 5401769813 | Contrast | Writers often use __________, or oppositions, to elaborate ideas. ________ help writers to expand on their ideas by allowing them to show both what a thing is and what it is not. | 35 | |
| 5401769814 | Deduction | ___________ is the process of reasoning from a stated premise to a necessary conclusion. This form of reasoning moves from the general to the specific. | 36 | |
| 5401769815 | Definition | ____________ is one of the types of exposition. __________ is a statement of the meaning of a word. A _________ may be either brief or extended, part of an essay or an entire essay itself | 37 | |
| 5401769816 | Denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word, the literal meaning | 38 | |
| 5401769817 | Description | ___________is one of the four basic types of prose. ____________tells how a person, place or thing is perceived by the five senses. Objective __________ reports the sensory qualities factually, whereas subjective ___________ gives the writer's interpretation of them | 39 | |
| 5401769818 | Dialogue | ___________ is conversation that is recorded in a piece of writing. Through ______, writers reveal important aspects of characters' personalities as well as events in the narrative | 40 | |
| 5401769819 | Diction | _________ refers to an authors choice of words. | 41 | |
| 5401769820 | Division | Like comparison and contrast, ___________ and classification are separate yet closely related mental operations. __________ involves breaking down a single large unit into smaller subunits or breaking down a large group of items into discrete categories | 42 | |
| 5401769821 | Dominant impression | A ______________ is the single mood, atmosphere, or quality a writer emphasizes in a piece of descriptive writing. The _______________ is created through the careful selection of details and is, of course, influenced by the writer's subject, audience and purpose | 43 | |
| 5401769822 | Draft | A ______ is a version of a piece of writing at a particular stage in the writing process | 44 | |
| 5401769823 | Editing | During the _______ stage of the writing process, the writer makes his or her prose conform to the conventions of the language. This includes making final improvements in sentence structure and diction, and proofreading for wordiness and errors in grammar, usage, spelling and punctuation | 45 | |
| 5401769824 | Elegiac | An ________ is work (of music, literature, dance, or art) that expresses sorrow. It mourns the loss of something, such as the death of a loved one | 46 | |
| 5401769825 | Emphasis | ___________ is the placement of important ideas and words within sentences and longer units of writing so that they have the greatest impact | 47 | |
| 5401769826 | Ending | An ________ is a sentence or group of sentences that brings an essay to closure | 48 | |
| 5401769827 | Essay | An _________ is a relatively short piece of nonfiction in which the writer attempts to make one or more closely related points | 49 | |
| 5401769828 | Ethos | __________is the characteristic spirit or ideal that informs a work _________ also refers more generally to ethics, or values of the arguer: honesty, trustworthiness, even morals. In rhetorical writing, authors often attempt to persuade readers by appealing to their sense of _______, or ethical principles | 50 | |
| 5401769829 | Euphemism | A __________ is a mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea | 51 | |
| 5401769830 | Evaluation | An __________ of a piece of writing is an assessment of its effectiveness or merit | 52 | |
| 5401769831 | Evidence | _________ is the data on which a judgment or argument is based on by which proof or probability is established. _________ usually takes the form of statistics, facts, names, examples or illustrations and opinions of authorities | 53 | |
| 5401769832 | Examples | __________ illustrate a larger idea or represent something of which they are a part. An _______ is a basic means of developing or clarifying an idea. The terms _______ and illustration are sometimes used interchangeable | 54 | |
| 5401769833 | Exemplification | _____________ is a type of exposition. With _____________, the writer uses examples - specific facts, opinions, samples and anecdotes or stories- to support a generalization and to make it more vivid, understandable and persuasive | 55 | |
| 5401769834 | Exposition | __________is one of the four basic types of prose. The purpose of ___________ is to clarify, explain and inform. The methods of ___________ include process analysis, definition, division and classification, comparison and contrast, exemplification and cause and effect analysis Writing or speech that is organized to explain | 56 | |
| 5401769835 | Fact | A piece of information presented as having a verifiable certainty or reality | 57 | |
| 5401769836 | Fallacy | See logical fallacies | 58 | |
| 5401769837 | Figures of speech | _______________ or brief, imaginative comparisons that highlight the similarities between things that are basically dissimilar. The most common figures of speech are these: simile: an implicit comparison introduced by like or as metaphor: an implied comparison that uses one thing as the equivalent of another Personification: a special kind of simile or metaphor in which human traits are assigned to an inanimate object | 59 | |
| 5401769838 | Fiction | The word "_______" comes from the Latin word meaning to invent, to form, to imagine. Works of ________ can be based on actual occurrences, but their status as ________ means that something has been imagined or invented in the telling of the occurrence | 60 | |
| 5401769839 | Figurative language | ___________ is an umbrella term for all uses of language that imply an imaginative comparison. Similes, metaphors and symbols are all examples of ______________ | 61 | |
| 5401769840 | Focus | _______ is a limitation that a writer gives his or her subject | 62 | |
| 5401769841 | Foreshadowing | _______________ is a purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative | 63 | |
| 5401769842 | General | _________ words name groups or classes of objects, qualities, or actions | 64 | |
| 5401769843 | Grammar | ___________is a set of rules that specify how a given language is used effectively | 65 | |
| 5401769844 | Hyperbole | ____________ is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis | 66 | |
| 5401769845 | Idiom | An _________ is a word or phrase that is used habitually with a particular meaning in a language. The meaning of an _______ is not always readily apparent to non-native speakers of that language | 67 | |
| 5401769846 | Illustration | __________ illustrate a larger idea or represent something of which they are a part. An _______ is a basic means of developing or clarifying an idea. The terms example and __________ are sometimes used interchangeable | 68 | |
| 5401769847 | Image | An_______ is a mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations, but there can be auditory and sensory components to________ as well | 69 | |
| 5401849505 | Induction | __________ is the process of reasoning to a conclusion about all members of a class through an examination of only a few members of the class | 70 | |
| 5401849506 | Introductions | An _______ is the sentence, group of sentences or section that introduces an essay | 71 | |
| 5401849507 | Irony | _________ occurs when a situation produces an outcome that is opposite of what is expected | 72 | |
| 5401849508 | Jargon | _________ is the special vocabulary of a trade or profession | 73 | |
| 5401849509 | Juxtaposition | When two contrasting things - ideas, words or sentence elements - are placed next to each other for comparison, a ____________ occurs | 74 | |
| 5401849510 | Logical fallacies | The _____________ is an error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid. Some of the more common _____________ are these: | 75 | |
| 5556729950 | Either/or thinking | the tendency to see in issue as having only two sides | 76 | |
| 5556729951 | False analogy | making a misleading analogy between logically unconnected ideas | 77 | |
| 5556729952 | Begging the question | assuming in a premise that which needs to be proven | 78 | |
| 5556729953 | Post hoc, ergo propter hoc ("After this, therefore because of this") | confusing chance or coincidence with causation Because one event comes after another one, it does not necessarily mean that the first event caused the second | 79 | |
| 5556729954 | Non sequitur ("it does not follow") | an inference or conclusion that does not follow from established premises or evidence | 80 | |
| 5556729955 | Oversimplification | the tendency to provide simple solutions to complex problems | 81 |
