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| 6965287584 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. Ex: Aunt april ate acorns and apples around august. |  | 0 |
| 6965296900 | Allusion | An indirect reference,often to another text or an historic event. |  | 1 |
| 6965299735 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. |  | 2 |
| 6965315230 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. |  | 3 |
| 6965320154 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event. |  | 4 |
| 6965321417 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. |  | 5 |
| 6965326457 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. |  | 6 |
| 6965330677 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. |  | 7 |
| 6965352438 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. |  | 8 |
| 6965367663 | Aphorism | A short,astute statement of a general truth. |  | 9 |
| 6965372209 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. |  | 10 |
| 6965375008 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. |  | 11 |
| 6965385758 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. |  | 12 |
| 6965388863 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker,the subject,and the audience. |  | 13 |
| 6965396871 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. |  | 14 |
| 6965403179 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 6965407898 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words,phrases,clauses. |  | 16 |
| 6965412483 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. |  | 17 |
| 6965416927 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. |  | 18 |
| 6965423712 | Authority | A reliable, respected source-someone with knowledge. |  | 19 |
| 6965428784 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue.o |  | 20 |
| 6965432482 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. |  | 21 |
| 6965435259 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. |  | 22 |
| 6965438809 | 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 |
| 6965450122 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. |  | 24 |
| 6965453000 | Common ground | Shared beliefs,values,or positions. | 25 | |
| 6965454908 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. |  | 26 |
| 6965462249 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding. | 27 | |
| 6965466800 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning. |  | 28 |
| 6965477221 | Context | Words,events,or circumstances that help determine meaning. |  | 29 |
| 6965693708 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 30 | |
| 6965704067 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. |  | 31 |
| 6965707731 | Cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phases that supply additional detail. |  | 32 |
| 6965712802 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. |  | 33 |
| 6965714751 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. |  | 34 |
| 6965716804 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. |  | 35 |
| 6965723048 | Diction | Word choice |  | 36 |
| 6965724466 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. |  | 37 |
| 6965732875 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. |  | 38 |
| 6965735386 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. |  | 39 |
| 6965737266 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals. |  | 40 |
| 6965743804 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. |  | 41 |
| 6965747362 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather that conveying a literal meaning . |  | 42 |
| 6965751766 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. |  | 43 |
| 6965759196 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses. |  | 44 |
| 6965764265 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. |  | 45 |
| 6965766582 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. | | 46 |
| 6965767552 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 47 | |
| 6965770078 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. |  | 48 |
| 6965774396 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. |  | 49 |
| 6965782065 | Logos | A greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals. |  | 50 |
| 6965791356 | 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. |  | 51 |
| 6965798651 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. |  | 52 |
| 6965802036 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. |  | 53 |
| 6965806545 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. |  | 54 |
| 6965810071 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 55 | |
| 6965811288 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 56 | |
| 6965816369 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another, used for comic effect or ridicule. | 57 | |
| 6965821403 | 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. | 58 | |
| 6965831573 | Persona | The speaker, voice or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 59 | |
| 6965838251 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 60 | |
| 6965851528 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy,politics,or religion. | 61 | |
| 6965856313 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 62 | |
| 6965862994 | 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. | 63 | |
| 6965871574 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 64 | |
| 6965873676 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 65 | |
| 6965888536 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 66 | |
| 6965899940 | Rhetoric | The study of effective,persuasive language use; according to Aristotle,use of the "available means of persuasion." | 67 | |
| 6967709452 | 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. | 68 | |
| 6967723706 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 69 | |
| 6967726792 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker,the subject,and the audience. | 70 | |
| 6971128143 | Satire | An ironic,sarcastic,or witty composition that claims to argue for something,but actually argues against it. | 71 | |
| 6971132875 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 72 | |
| 6971135123 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into know sentence constructions-such as simple, compound,complex,or compound-complex. | 73 | |
| 6971142345 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 74 | |
| 6971144322 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 75 | |
| 6971151465 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate;an independent clause. | 76 | |
| 6971159224 | Source | A book,article,person,or other resource consulted for information. | 77 | |
| 6971164369 | Speaker | A term used for the author,speaker or the person whose perspective is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing. | 78 | |
| 6971182400 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 79 | |
| 6971194396 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 80 | |
| 6971201808 | Subject | In rhetoric,the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 81 | |
| 6971213335 | Subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 82 | |
| 6971225176 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactic element on another in a sentence. | 83 | |
| 6972890045 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise. | 84 | |
| 6972893462 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 85 | |
| 6972894887 | Synthesize | Combing or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 86 | |
| 6972899416 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 87 | |
| 6972901061 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work,may be explicit or implicit. | 88 | |
| 6972904923 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 89 | |
| 6972912977 | 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. | 90 | |
| 6972917460 | Trope | Artful diction;the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 91 | |
| 6972923509 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 92 | |
| 6972927385 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun. In rhetoric,a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 93 | |
| 6972934301 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word modifies or governs often in different,sometimes in-congruent ways- two or more words in a sentence. | 94 |
