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| 13727417378 | Allegory | a narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often allegory is a unified symbol or personified abstraction. | 0 | |
| 13727423937 | Alliteration | the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate syllables. | 1 | |
| 13727431326 | Allusion | a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference. | 2 | |
| 13727434937 | Anaphora | the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases of clauses. | 3 | |
| 13727441418 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas. | 4 | |
| 13727444494 | Aphorism | a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. | 5 | |
| 13727449402 | Apostrophe | an address or invocation to something inanimate. | 6 | |
| 13727453038 | Appeals to...authority, emotion, or logic | rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in the field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason. | 7 | |
| 13727474386 | Assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words. | 8 | |
| 13727476894 | Asyndeton | a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose. | 9 | |
| 13727479746 | Attitude | the sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader. | 10 | |
| 13727491697 | Begging the question | an argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or conflict, evades or ignores the real question. | 11 | |
| 13727493774 | Canon | that which has been accepted as authentic. | 12 | |
| 13727496301 | Chiasmus | a figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second. | 13 | |
| 13727498697 | Claim | in argumentation, an assertion of something as fact. | 14 | |
| 13727500936 | Colloquial | a term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folk, especially in a specific region or area. | 15 | |
| 13727504427 | Comparison and Contrast | a mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared, contrasted, or both. | 16 | |
| 13727507192 | Conceit | a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem. However, conceits can also be used in non-fiction and prose. | 17 | |
| 13727511006 | Connotation | the implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase. It is opposite of denotation which is the "dictionary definition" of the word. | 18 | |
| 13727519977 | Consonance | the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowel. | 19 | |
| 13727522737 | Convention | an accepted manner, model, or tradition. | 20 | |
| 13727524776 | Critique | an assessment or analysis of something such as a passage of writing, for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre. | 21 | |
| 13727528957 | Deductive Reasoning (Deduction) | the method of arguing in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from the general to the specific, in contrast to inductive reasoning (induction.) | 22 | |
| 13727533410 | Dialect | the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group. | 23 | |
| 13727536693 | Diction | the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect. | 24 |
