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| 6614805192 | Antecedent | The word to which a pronoun refers | 0 | |
| 6614807110 | Horative Sentence | a sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 1 | |
| 6614811969 | Chiasmus | a type of parallelism where the second part is the same as the first but reversed | 2 | |
| 6614816152 | Allegory | A narrative in which the elements of the narrative represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story | 3 | |
| 6614824722 | Straw-man Fallacy | A misrepresentation of an argument to make it less appealing | 4 | |
| 6614826775 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 5 | |
| 6614828814 | motif | recurrent image, words, objects, phrases, or actions that tend to unify a work | 6 | |
| 6614831879 | Restrictive phrase | an adjective clause that is essential to the meaning of a sentence because it limits the thing to which it refers | 7 | |
| 6614837170 | periodic sentence | A sentence that puts the main clause or predicate at the end | 8 | |
| 6614839356 | Satire | Use of irony or sarcasm to critique society or an individual | 9 | |
| 6614841501 | polemic | An aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others | 10 | |
| 6614845605 | propaganda | the spread of ideas and information through rumor, lies, disinformation, and scare tactics to damage or further a cause | 11 | |
| 6614857971 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 12 | |
| 6614860096 | coinage | the making of a new word or phrase | 13 | |
| 6614861397 | jargon | specialized language of a trade or profession | 14 | |
| 6614862801 | euphemism | The substitution of an inoffensive word or expression for a word or phrase that is considered socially unacceptable or harsh | 15 | |
| 6614867160 | modifier | adjective, adverb, phrase or clause that modifies a noun , pronoun, or verb | 16 | |
| 6614869404 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 17 | |
| 6614882654 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 18 | |
| 6614893921 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 19 | |
| 6614895238 | circular reasoning | a fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence | 20 | |
| 6614896333 | slippery slope | A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented | 21 | |
| 6614896334 | gerund | A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun. | 22 | |
| 6614897147 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 23 | |
| 6614905434 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 24 | |
| 6614906864 | litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | 25 | |
| 6614921961 | syntax | Sentence structure | 26 | |
| 6614923265 | synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 27 | |
| 6614924536 | aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 28 | |
| 6614926068 | polysendeton | the deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis to highlight quantity or mass of detail of to create a flowing continuous sentence pattern | 29 | |
| 6614926982 | synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 30 | |
| 6614968160 | colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 31 | |
| 6614968161 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 32 | |
| 6614969691 | trope | The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. | 33 | |
| 6614978085 | anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 34 | |
| 6614981839 | parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 35 | |
| 6615433190 | antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 36 | |
| 6615437093 | Ad Hominem | In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man." | 37 | |
| 6615439333 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 38 | |
| 6615440461 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 39 | |
| 6615443900 | Refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 40 | |
| 6615446285 | Lending Credence | In arguing her point, a writer or speaker should always give the opponent some credit for his / her ideas. | 41 | |
| 6615451559 | Red Herring | A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 42 | |
| 6615454938 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 43 |
