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| 4343621500 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 0 | |
| 4343621501 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. | 1 | |
| 4343623238 | Claim | An assertion usually supported by evidence. | 2 | |
| 4343623239 | Close Reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. | 3 | |
| 4343623240 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 4 | |
| 4343625537 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 5 | |
| 4343625538 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 6 | |
| 4343627715 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 7 | |
| 4343627716 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 8 | |
| 4343629027 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 9 | |
| 4343629028 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 10 | |
| 4343629029 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event | 11 | |
| 4343631278 | Cumulative Sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 12 | |
| 4343631279 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 13 | |
| 4343632734 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. | 14 | |
| 4343632735 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 15 | |
| 4343634890 | Diction | Word choice. | 16 | |
| 4343634891 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle). | 17 |
