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| 7250833527 | abstract / concrete | Patterns of language reflect an authors's word choice.Abstract words (for example, wisdom, power, and beauty) refer to general ideas, qualities, or condition. Concrete words name material objects and items associated with the five senses - words like rock, pizza, and basketball. Both abstract and concrete language are useful in communicating ideas. Generally, you should not be to abstract in writing. It is best to employ concrete words, naming things that can be seen, touched, smelled, heard, or tasted. in order to support generalizations, topic senctences, or more abstract ideas. | 0 | |
| 7250833528 | acronym | a word formed from the first or first few letters of several words, as in OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries). | 1 | |
| 7250833529 | action | in narrative writing is the sequence of happenings or events. This movment of events may occupy just a few minutes or extend over a period of years or centuries. | 2 | |
| 7250833530 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words placed closely next to each other, as in "what a tale of terror now their turbulency tells." Prose that is highly rhythmical or "poetic" often makes use of this method. | 3 | |
| 7250833531 | allusion | is a literary, biographical, or bigraphical reference, whatever real or imaginary. It is a "figure of speech" (a fresh, useful comparison) employed to illuminate an idea. A writer prose style can be made richer through this economical method of evoking an idea emotion, as in E.M. Forster's biblical allusion in this sentence. "Property produced men of weight, and it was a man of weight who failed to get into the Kingdom of Heaven." | 4 | |
| 7250833532 | analogy | 5 | ||
| 7250833533 | analysis | 6 | ||
| 7250833534 | anecdote | a brief, engaging account of some happening, often historical, biographical, or personal. As a technique in writing it is especially effective in creating interesting essay introductions and also in illuminating abstract concepts in the body of the essay. | 7 | |
| 7250833535 | antecedent | in grammar refers to the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers, in writing, it also refers to any happening or thing that is prior to another or to anything that logically precedes a subject. | 8 | |
| 7250833536 | antithesis | the balancing of one idea or term against another for emphasis. | 9 | |
| 7250833537 | antonym | a word whose meaning is opposite to that of another word. | 10 | |
| 7250833538 | aphorism | a short, pointed statement expressing a general truism of an idea in an original or imaginative way. Marshall McLuhan's statement that "the medium is the message" is a well-known contemporary example. | 11 | |
| 7250833539 | archaic | language is vocabulary or usage that belongs to an earlier period and is old-fashioned today. the word "thee" for "you" is an example that is still in use in certain situations. | 12 | |
| 7250833540 | archetypes | 13 | ||
| 7250833541 | argumentation | 14 | ||
| 7250833542 | assonance | 15 | ||
| 7250833543 | assumption | 16 | ||
| 7250833544 | audience | 17 | ||
| 7250833545 | balance | 18 | ||
| 7250833546 | begging the question | an error or a fallacy in reasoning and argumentation in which the writer assumes as a truth something for which evidence or proof is actually needed. | 19 | |
| 7250833547 | causal analysis | 20 | ||
| 7250833548 | characterization | 21 | ||
| 7250833549 | chronology / chronological order | 22 | ||
| 7250833550 | cinematic technique | 23 | ||
| 7250833551 | classification | 24 | ||
| 7250833552 | cliche | an expression that once was fresh and original but that has lost much of its vitality through overuse. Because expressions like "as quick as a wink" and "blew her stack" are trite or common today, they should be avoided in writing. | 25 | |
| 7250833553 | climactic ordering | 26 | ||
| 7250833554 | coherence | 27 | ||
| 7250833555 | colloquial language | conversational language used in certain types of informal and narrative writing but rarely in essays, business writing, or research writing. Expressions like "cool", "pal" or "I can dig it" often have a place in conversational settings. However, they should be use sparingly in essay writing for special effects. | 28 | |
| 7250833556 | comparison / contrast | 29 | ||
| 7250833557 | conclusion | 30 | ||
| 7250833558 | conflict | in narrative writing, the clash or opposition of events, characters, or ideas that makes the resolution of action necessary. | 31 | |
| 7250833559 | connotation / denotation | 32 | ||
| 7250833560 | context | the situation surrounding a word, group of words, or sentence. Often the elements coming before or after a certain confusing or difficult construction will provide insight into the meaning of importance of that item. | 33 | |
| 7250833561 | coordination | in sentence structure refers to the grammatical arrangement of parts of the same order or equality in rank. | 34 | |
| 7250833562 | declarative sentence | 35 | ||
| 7250833563 | deduction | a form of logic that begins with a generally stated truth or principle and then offers details, examples, and reasoning to support the generalization. In other words, it is based on reasoning from a known principle to an unknown principle, from the general to the specific, or from a premise to a logical conclusion. | 36 | |
| 7250833564 | definition | 37 | ||
| 7250833565 | description | 38 | ||
| 7250833566 | development | 39 | ||
| 7250833567 | dialogue | 40 | ||
| 7250833568 | diction | the manner of expression in words, choice of words, or wording. Writers much choose vocabulary carefully and precisely to communicate a message and also to address an intended audience effectively. | 41 | |
| 7250833569 | digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in writing. It must serve a purpose or be intended for a specific effect. | 42 | |
| 7250833570 | discourse (forms of) | 43 | ||
| 7250833571 | division | 44 | ||
| 7250833572 | dominant impression | 45 | ||
| 7250833573 | editorializing | to express personal opinions about the subject of the essay. It can have a useful effect in writing, but at other times an author might want to reduce it in favor of a better balanced or more objective tone. | 46 | |
| 7250833574 | effect | 47 | ||
| 7250833575 | emphasis | 48 | ||
| 7250833576 | episodic | 49 | ||
| 7250833577 | essay | the name given to a short prose work on a limited topic. They take many forms, ranging from personal narratives to critical or argumentative treatments of a subject. Normally they convey the writer's personal ideas about the subject. | 50 | |
| 7250833578 | etymology | the origin and development of a word -- tracing a word back as far as possible. | 51 | |
| 7250833579 | evidence | material offered to support an argument or a proposition; typical examples include facts, details, and expert testimony. | 52 | |
| 7250833580 | example | 53 | ||
| 7250833581 | exclamatory sentences | 54 | ||
| 7250833582 | expert testimony | 55 | ||
| 7250833583 | exposition | 56 | ||
| 7250833584 | extended metaphor | a figurative comparison that is used to structure a significant part of the composition or the whole essay. | 57 | |
| 7250833585 | fable | a form of narrative containing a moral that normally appears clearly at the end. | 58 | |
| 7250833586 | fallacy | 59 | ||
| 7250833587 | figurative language | 60 | ||
| 7250833588 | flashback | 61 | ||
| 7250833589 | foreshadow | 62 | ||
| 7250833590 | frame | 63 | ||
| 7250833591 | general / specific words | 64 | ||
| 7250833592 | generalization | 65 | ||
| 7250833593 | genre | a type or form of literature -- for example, short fiction, novel, poetry, or drama. | 66 | |
| 7250833594 | grammatical structure | 67 | ||
| 7250833595 | horizontal / vertical | 68 | ||
| 7250833596 | hortatory style | 69 | ||
| 7250833597 | hyperbole | 70 | ||
| 7250833598 | hypothetical examples | 71 | ||
| 7250833599 | identification | 72 | ||
| 7250833600 | idiomatic language | 73 | ||
| 7250833601 | ignoring the question | 74 | ||
| 7250833602 | illustration | 75 | ||
| 7250833603 | imagery | 76 | ||
| 7250833604 | induction | 77 | ||
| 7250833605 | inference | involves arriving at a decision or opinion by reasoning from known facts or evidence. | 78 | |
| 7250833606 | interrogative sentences | 79 | ||
| 7250833607 | introduction | 80 | ||
| 7250833608 | irony | 81 | ||
| 7250833609 | issue | 82 | ||
| 7250833610 | jargon | special words associated with a specific area of knowledge or a particular profession. Writers who employ this either assume that readers know specialized terms or take care to define terms for the benefit of the audience. | 83 | |
| 7250833611 | juxtaposition | 84 | ||
| 7250833612 | levels of language | 85 | ||
| 7250833613 | linear order | 86 | ||
| 7250833614 | listing | 87 | ||
| 7250833615 | logic | 88 | ||
| 7250833616 | metaphor | 89 | ||
| 7250833617 | metonymy | a figure of language in which a thing is not designated by its own name but by another associated with or suggested by it, as in "The Supreme Court has decided" (meaning the judges of the Supreme Court have decided). | 90 | |
| 7250833618 | mood | 91 | ||
| 7250833619 | motif | 92 | ||
| 7250833620 | myth | 93 | ||
| 7250833621 | narration | 94 | ||
| 7250833622 | non sequitur | 95 | ||
| 7250833623 | objective / subjective | 96 | ||
| 7250833624 | onomatopoeia | 97 | ||
| 7250833625 | order | 98 | ||
| 7250833626 | overstatement | 99 | ||
| 7250833627 | paradox | 100 | ||
| 7250833628 | paragraph | 101 | ||
| 7250833629 | parallelism | 102 | ||
| 7250833630 | paraphrase | 103 | ||
| 7250833631 | parenthetical | 104 | ||
| 7250833632 | parody | 105 | ||
| 7250833633 | periphrasis | 106 | ||
| 7250833634 | persona | 107 | ||
| 7250833635 | personification | 108 | ||
| 7250833636 | persuasion | 109 | ||
| 7250833637 | point of view | 110 | ||
| 7250833638 | post hoc, ergo propter hoc | in logic it is the fallacy of thinking that a happening that follows another must be its result. it arises from a confusion about the logical causal relationship. | 111 | |
| 7250833639 | process analysis | 112 | ||
| 7250833640 | progression | 113 | ||
| 7250833641 | proportion | 114 | ||
| 7250833642 | proposition | 115 | ||
| 7250833643 | purpose | 116 | ||
| 7250833644 | refutation | 117 | ||
| 7250833645 | repetition | 118 | ||
| 7250833646 | rhetoric | the art of using words effectively in speaking or writing. it is also the art of literary composition, particularly in prose, including both figures of speech and such strategies as comparison and contrast, definition, and analysis. | 119 | |
| 7250833647 | rhetorical question | a question asked only to emphasize a point, introduce a topic, or provoke thought, but not to elicit an answer. | 120 | |
| 7250833648 | rhythm | in prose writing it is a regular recurrence of elements or features in sentences, creating a patterned emphasis, balance, or contrast. | 121 | |
| 7250833649 | sarcasm | 122 | ||
| 7250833650 | satire | the humorous or critical treatment of a subject in order to expose the subject's vices, follies, stupidities, and so forth. Its intention is to reform by exposing the subject to comedy or ridicule. | 123 | |
| 7250833651 | sensory language | language that appeals to any of the five senses--sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell. | 124 | |
| 7250833652 | sentimentality | in prose writing it is the excessive display of emotion, whether intended or unintended. Because it can distort the true nature of a situation or an idea, writers should use it caustiusly, or not at all. | 125 | |
| 7250833653 | series | 126 | ||
| 7250833654 | setting | 127 | ||
| 7250833655 | simile | a figurative comparison using "like" or "as". | 128 | |
| 7250833656 | slang | a kind of language that uses racy or colorful expressions associated more often with speech than with writing. it is colloquial English and should be used in essay writing only to reproduce dialogue or to create a special effect. | 129 | |
| 7250833657 | spatial order | 130 | ||
| 7250833658 | statistics | 131 | ||
| 7250833659 | style | 132 | ||
| 7250833660 | subordination | 133 | ||
| 7250833661 | syllogism | an argument or form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them. As such, it is a form of deductive logic--reasoning from the general to the particular. | 134 | |
| 7250833662 | symbol | 135 | ||
| 7250833663 | synonym | 136 | ||
| 7250833664 | theme | the central idea in an essay; it is also termed the thesis. Everything in an essay should support this in one way or another. | 137 | |
| 7250833665 | thesis | the main idea in an essay; when stated as a sentence it appears early in an essay (normally somewhere in the first paragraph) serving to convey the main idea to the reader in a clear and emphatic manner. | 138 | |
| 7250833666 | tone | the writer's attitude toward his or her subject or material. An essay writer may have an objective one, subjective, comic, ironic, nostalgic, critical, or a reflection of numerous other attitudes. it is the voice that writers give to an essay. | 139 | |
| 7250833667 | topic sentence | the main idea that a paragraph develops; not all paragraphs have one, often the topic is implied. | 140 | |
| 7250833668 | transition | 141 | ||
| 7250833669 | understatement | a method of making a weaker statement than is warranted by truth, accuracy, or importance. | 142 | |
| 7250833670 | unity | 143 | ||
| 7250833671 | usage | 144 | ||
| 7250833672 | voice | the way you express your ideas to the reader, the ton you take in addressing your audience; it reflects your attitude toward both your subject and your readers. | 145 |
