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| 14428069842 | alliteration | repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 14428071384 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event | 1 | |
| 14428072885 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 14428075342 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses ex. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, | 3 | |
| 14428076619 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 14428077670 | annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 14470913568 | antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 14470914953 | antimetabole | repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 7 | |
| 14470916146 | antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 14470923873 | aphorism | a short astute statement of a general truth ex. actions speak louder than words | 9 | |
| 14470924747 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun ex. my mom, WHO IS A NURSE, lives close to the hospital. | 10 | |
| 14470926747 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period | 11 | |
| 14470929335 | argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 14470935400 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 14470938533 | assertion | an emphatic statement or declaration | 14 | |
| 14470942023 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 14470946134 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses ex. I came, I saw, I conquered | 16 | |
| 14470952121 | attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 14470954110 | audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 14470962241 | authority | a reliable, respected source; someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 14470966407 | bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 20 | |
| 14470971594 | cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source ex. "according to..." | 21 | |
| 14470972495 | claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 14470973666 | close reading | a careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary or structural elements of a text | 23 | |
| 14470980000 | colloquialism | an informal or conversational use of language | 24 | |
| 14470985278 | common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions | 25 | |
| 14470986655 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 14470987577 | concession | a reluctant acknowledgement or yielding | 27 | |
| 14470989417 | connotation | that which is implied by a word as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 28 | |
| 14470991413 | context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 29 | |
| 14470994461 | coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and or but | 30 | |
| 14471011565 | counterargument | a challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 14471016524 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 32 | |
| 14655375711 | diction | word choice | 33 | |
| 14655375712 | documentation | bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 34 | |
| 14655376240 | elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 35 | |
| 14655376413 | epigram | A brief witty statement. | 36 | |
| 14655376685 | ethos | a greek term referring to the character of a person | 37 | |
| 14655377606 | figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 38 |
