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| 4576403656 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 4576416344 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 4576416345 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 4576417290 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 4576417917 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event. | 4 | |
| 4576419514 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 5 | |
| 4576420086 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 4576420725 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 4576451000 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 8 | |
| 4576452732 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. | 9 | |
| 4576456225 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 4576459660 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 4576461553 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. | 12 | |
| 4576466779 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle). | 13 | |
| 4576469598 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 14 | |
| 4576475899 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 4576478007 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 16 | |
| 4576479933 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 17 | |
| 4576481372 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 4576483112 | Authority | A reliable, respected source — someone with knowledge. | 19 | |
| 4576448230 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 4576542253 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 4576548409 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 22 | |
| 4576550120 | 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 | |
| 4576553938 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 4576556294 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 4576561561 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 26 | |
| 4576564432 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 27 | |
| 4576566111 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (see denotation). | 28 | |
| 4576568545 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 4576572445 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 30 | |
| 4576574637 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 31 | |
| 4576576221 | Credible | Worthy of belief; trustworthy. | 32 | |
| 4576578953 | Cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 33 | |
| 4576581864 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 34 | |
| 4576584098 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. | 35 | |
| 4576586978 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 36 | |
| 4576590510 | Dialectical journal | A double-column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in the other column. | 37 | |
| 4576593893 | Diction | Word choice. | 38 | |
| 4576597256 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 39 | |
| 4576598930 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 40 | |
| 4576600415 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. | 41 | |
| 4576603495 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). | 42 | |
| 4576607285 | Explication of text | Explanation of a text's meaning through an analysis of all of its constituent parts, including the literary devices used; also called close reading. | 43 | |
| 4576609367 | Facts | Information that is true or demonstrable. | 44 | |
| 4576624728 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 45 | |
| 4576628212 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 46 | |
| 4576637747 | Fragment | A word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence. | 47 | |
| 4576639258 | Hortatory | Urging, or strongly encouraging. | 48 | |
| 4576642159 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 49 | |
| 4576918234 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 50 | |
| 4576644053 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 51 | |
| 4576651693 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. | 52 | |
| 4576653577 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 53 | |
| 4576653578 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 54 | |
| 4576656170 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 55 | |
| 4576660510 | logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos). | 56 | |
| 4576666440 | 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. | 57 | |
| 4576668708 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 58 | |
| 4576678978 | Modifier | A word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or describes another word, phrase, or clause. | 59 | |
| 4576681437 | Narration | Retelling an event or series of events. | 60 | |
| 4576684560 | Nominalization | Turning a verb or adjective into a noun. | 61 | |
| 4576920984 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 62 | |
| 4576687509 | Omniscient narrator | An all-knowing, usually third-person narrator. | 63 | |
| 4576689550 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 64 | |
| 4576690448 | Pacing | The relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented. | 65 | |
| 4576692690 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 66 | |
| 4576694120 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 67 | |
| 4576697047 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 68 | |
| 4576696079 | 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 (see ethos and logos). | 69 | |
| 4576699299 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause. | 70 | |
| 4576703867 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 71 | |
| 4576705319 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 72 | |
| 4576707009 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics or religion. | 73 | |
| 4576715367 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 74 | |
| 4576717994 | 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. - Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. - Minor premise: All horses are mammals. - Conclusion: All horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism). | 75 | |
| 4576733903 | Pronoun | A word used to replace a noun or noun phrase. | 76 | |
| 4576734624 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 77 | |
| 4576741166 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 78 | |
| 4576742415 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 79 | |
| 4576745634 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 80 | |
| 4576752276 | 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. | 81 | |
| 4576755626 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 82 | |
| 4576758070 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle). | 83 | |
| 4576761191 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 84 | |
| 4576762379 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 85 | |
| 4576764764 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions — such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 86 | |
| 4576767128 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 87 | |
| 4576768971 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 88 | |
| 4576770379 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 89 | |
| 4576780067 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 90 | |
| 4576782825 | 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. | 91 | |
| 4576785224 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 92 | |
| 4576787228 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 93 | |
| 4576807667 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 94 | |
| 4576809611 | Subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 95 | |
| 4576812855 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 96 | |
| 4576814120 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise (see premise; major, and minor). | 97 | |
| 4576856521 | Syntax | Sentence structure. | 98 | |
| 4576858664 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 99 | |
| 4576860072 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 100 | |
| 4576861679 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 101 | |
| 4576863531 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 102 | |
| 4576864738 | 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. | 103 | |
| 4576867339 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 104 | |
| 4576869580 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 105 | |
| 4576872528 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 106 | |
| 4576876354 | 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. | 107 |
