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| 13907014783 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 13907019344 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event | 1 | |
| 14376818121 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 14376819449 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 14376820857 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 14376836476 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 14376837560 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 14376839405 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 7 | |
| 14376840242 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth | 8 | |
| 14376841030 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 9 | |
| 14376842752 | Archaic Diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 10 | |
| 14376843509 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 11 | |
| 14376844190 | Aristotelian Triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle) | 12 | |
| 14376845964 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 13 | |
| 14376849520 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 14 | |
| 14376850794 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 15 | |
| 14376851782 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 16 | |
| 14376853052 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 17 | |
| 14376854137 | Authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge | 18 | |
| 14376858062 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 19 | |
| 14376858992 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 20 | |
| 14376860033 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 21 | |
| 14376863142 | Close Reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text | 22 | |
| 14376865585 | Colloquialism | An informal or conversational use of language | 23 | |
| 14376866451 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions | 24 | |
| 14376867292 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 25 | |
| 14376880619 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding | 26 | |
| 14376882698 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (see denotation) | 27 | |
| 14376883893 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 28 | |
| 14376886150 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 29 | |
| 14376888087 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 30 | |
| 14376889945 | Cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 31 | |
| 14376892187 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. Deduction: Reasoning from general to specific | 32 | |
| 14376895878 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 33 | |
| 14376896655 | Diction | Word choice. Documentation: Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 34 | |
| 14376908480 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 35 | |
| 14376923640 | Epigram | A brief witty statement | 36 | |
| 14376926997 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos) | 37 | |
| 14376928644 | Exigence | Issue or situation that demands prompt action or remedy | 38 | |
| 14376930107 | Explicit | Fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied | 39 | |
| 14376932418 | Figurative Language: | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 40 | |
| 14376933345 | Figure of Speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning | 41 | |
| 14376936798 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 42 | |
| 14376938551 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) | 43 | |
| 14376940228 | Implicit | Implied, rather than expressly stated | 44 | |
| 14376941955 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence that requests or commands | 45 | |
| 14376942977 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general | 46 | |
| 14376943832 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject | 47 | |
| 14376945776 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 48 | |
| 14376947353 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 49 | |
| 14376948209 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) | 50 | |
| 14376975861 | 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 | |
| 14376976738 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 52 | |
| 14376977354 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. Oxymoron: A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | 53 | |
| 14376979207 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 54 | |
| 14376979806 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 55 | |
| 14376980720 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 56 | |
| 14376981677 | 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) | 57 | |
| 14376982205 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 58 | |
| 14376983397 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. Polemic: An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 59 | |
| 14376987241 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 60 | |
| 14376992749 | 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 | 61 | |
| 14376994396 | Major premise/Minor Premise/Conclusion | All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All horses are mammals. Conclusion: All horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism) | 62 | |
| 14376995371 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 63 | |
| 14376996352 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 64 | |
| 14376996917 | Qualify | To discuss the extent to which something may or may not be true | 65 | |
| 14376997861 | Rebut | To refute by evidence or argument | 66 | |
| 14376998749 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 67 | |
| 14376999961 | 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 | |
| 14377002035 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer | 69 | |
| 14377002792 | Rhetorical Situation | The relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle) | 70 | |
| 14377004037 | Satire | Ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 71 | |
| 14377007689 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 72 | |
| 14377014590 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 73 | |
| 14377015600 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 74 | |
| 14377016404 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 75 | |
| 14377017458 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 76 | |
| 14377018818 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information | 77 | |
| 14377020670 | 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. Straw man: A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | 78 | |
| 14377021320 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 79 | |
| 14377022321 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 80 | |
| 14377023863 | Subordinate Clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 81 | |
| 14377024839 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactic element on another in a sentence | 82 | |
| 14377026071 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise (see premise; major, and minor) | 83 | |
| 14377039929 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 84 | |
| 14377104315 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 85 | |
| 14377105371 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 86 | |
| 14377106042 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit | 87 | |
| 14377110596 | Transitions | Transitions are words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences, and paragraphs | 88 | |
| 14377106686 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 89 | |
| 14377109032 | 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 | |
| 14377112270 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 91 | |
| 14377113289 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 92 | |
| 14377114294 | 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 | 93 |
