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| 7250726645 | abstract / concrete | Patterns of language reflect an author's word choice. | 0 | |
| 7250726646 | acronym | a word formed from the first or first few letters of several words, as in OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries). | 1 | |
| 7250726647 | action | Sequence of happenings or events. | 2 | |
| 7250726648 | 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 | |
| 7250726649 | allusion | Literary, biographical, or historical reference, whether real or imaginary. | 4 | |
| 7250726650 | analogy | Form of comparison that uses clear illustration to explain a difficult idea or function. | 5 | |
| 7250726651 | analysis | A method of exposition in which a subject is broken up into its parts to explain their nature, function, proportion, or relationship. | 6 | |
| 7250726652 | 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 | |
| 7250726653 | 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 | |
| 7250726654 | antithesis | the balancing of one idea or term against another for emphasis. | 9 | |
| 7250726655 | antonym | a word whose meaning is opposite to that of another word. | 10 | |
| 7250726656 | 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 | |
| 7250726657 | 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 | |
| 7250726658 | archetypes | Special images or symbols that, according to Carl Jung, appeal to the total racial or cultural understanding of the people. | 13 | |
| 7250726659 | argumentation | A formal variety of writing that offers reasons for or against something. | 14 | |
| 7250726660 | assonance | Likeness or rough similarity of sound. | 15 | |
| 7250726661 | assumption | Anything taken for granted or presumed to be accepted by the audience and therefore unstated. | 16 | |
| 7250726662 | audience | Readership toward which an author directs his or her essay. | 17 | |
| 7250726663 | balance | The assignment of equal treatment in the arrangement of coordinate ideas. | 18 | |
| 7250726664 | 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 | |
| 7250726665 | causal analysis | Form of writing that examines causes and effects of events or conditions as they relate to a specific subject. | 20 | |
| 7250726666 | characterization | The creation of people involved in the action. | 21 | |
| 7250726667 | chronology / chronological order | The arrangement of events in the order in which they happened. | 22 | |
| 7250726668 | cinematic technique | Application of film art to the development of the contemporary essay. | 23 | |
| 7250726669 | classification | Form of exposition in which writer's divides a subject into categories and then group elements in each of those categories according to their relationships with one another. | 24 | |
| 7250726670 | 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 | |
| 7250726671 | climactic ordering | The arrangement of a paragraph or essay so that the most important items are saved for last. | 26 | |
| 7250726672 | coherence | Effective writing that results from the careful ordering of each sentence in a paragraph and each paragraph in the essay. | 27 | |
| 7250726673 | 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 | |
| 7250726674 | comparison / contrast | An essay pattern treats similarities and differences between two subjects. | 29 | |
| 7250726675 | conclusion | The ending of an essay. | 30 | |
| 7250726676 | conflict | in narrative writing, the clash or opposition of events, characters, or ideas that makes the resolution of action necessary. | 31 | |
| 7250726677 | connotation / denotation | Terms specifying the way a word has meaning. | 32 | |
| 7250726678 | 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 | |
| 7250726679 | coordination | in sentence structure refers to the grammatical arrangement of parts of the same order or equality in rank. | 34 | |
| 7250726680 | declarative sentence | A statement or assertion. | 35 | |
| 7250726681 | 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 | |
| 7250726682 | definition | The extension of a word's meaning through a paragraph or an entire essay. | 37 | |
| 7250726683 | description | A variety of writing that uses details of sigh , sound, color, smell, taste, and touch to create a word picture and to explain or illustrate an idea. | 38 | |
| 7250726684 | development | The way a paragraph or an essay elaborates or builds upon a topic or theme. | 39 | |
| 7250726685 | dialogue | The reproduction of speech or conversation between two or more persons in writing. | 40 | |
| 7250726686 | 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 | |
| 7250726687 | digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in writing. It must serve a purpose or be intended for a specific effect. | 42 | |
| 7250726688 | discourse (forms of) | The main categories of writing-narration, description, exposition, and argumentation. | 43 | |
| 7250726689 | division | Aspect of classification in which the writer divides some large subject into categories. | 44 | |
| 7250726690 | dominant impression | The main impression or effect that writers attempt to create for their subject. | 45 | |
| 7250726691 | 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 | |
| 7250726692 | effect | Term used in casual analysis to describe the outcome or expected result of a chain of happenings. | 47 | |
| 7250726693 | emphasis | The placement of the most important ideas in key positions in the essay. | 48 | |
| 7250726694 | episodic | Variety of narrative writing that develops through a series of incidents or events. | 49 | |
| 7250726695 | 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 | |
| 7250726696 | etymology | the origin and development of a word -- tracing a word back as far as possible. | 51 | |
| 7250726697 | evidence | material offered to support an argument or a proposition; typical examples include facts, details, and expert testimony. | 52 | |
| 7250726698 | example | Method of exposition in which the writer offers illustrations in order to explain a generalization or a whole thesis. | 53 | |
| 7250726699 | exclamatory sentences | Sentences that express surprise or strong emotion. | 54 | |
| 7250726700 | expert testimony | The use of statements by the authorities to support a writer's position or idea. | 55 | |
| 7250726701 | exposition | A major form of discourse that informs or explains. | 56 | |
| 7250726702 | extended metaphor | a figurative comparison that is used to structure a significant part of the composition or the whole essay. | 57 | |
| 7250726703 | fable | a form of narrative containing a moral that normally appears clearly at the end. | 58 | |
| 7250726704 | fallacy | An error in logic or in the reasoning process. | 59 | |
| 7250726705 | figurative language | A special approach to writing that departs from what is typically a concrete, straight-forward style. | 60 | |
| 7250726706 | flashback | A narrative technique in which the writer begins at some point in the action and then moves into the past in order to provide crucial information about characters and events. | 61 | |
| 7250726707 | foreshadow | A technique that indicates beforehand what is to occur at a later point in the essay. | 62 | |
| 7250726708 | frame | The use of a key object or pattern- typically at the start and end of an essay- that serves as a border or structure for the substance of the composition. | 63 | |
| 7250726709 | general / specific words | The basis of writing. | 64 | |
| 7250726710 | generalization | A broad idea or statement. | 65 | |
| 7250726711 | genre | a type or form of literature -- for example, short fiction, novel, poetry, or drama. | 66 | |
| 7250726712 | grammatical structure | A systematic description of language as it relates to the grammatical nature of a sentence. | 67 | |
| 7250726713 | horizontal / vertical | The basic way a writer moves either from one generalization to another in a carefully related series of generalizations (horizontal) or from a generalization to a series of specific supporting examples (vertical). | 68 | |
| 7250726714 | hortatory style | A variety of writing designed to encourage, give advice, or urge to good deeds. | 69 | |
| 7250726715 | hyperbole | A form of figurative language that uses exaggeration to overstate a position. | 70 | |
| 7250726716 | hypothetical examples | Illustrations in the form of assumptions that are based on the hypothesis. | 71 | |
| 7250726717 | identification | A method of exposition refers to focusing on the main subject of the essay. | 72 | |
| 7250726718 | idiomatic language | The language or dialect of a people, region, or class-the individual nature of a language. | 73 | |
| 7250726719 | ignoring the question | A fallacy that involves the avoidance of the main issue by developing an entirely different one. | 74 | |
| 7250726720 | illustration | The use of one or more examples to support an idea. | 75 | |
| 7250726721 | imagery | Clear, vivid description that appeals to the sense of sight, smell, touch, sound or taste. | 76 | |
| 7250726722 | induction | A method of logic consisting of the presentation of a series of facts, pieces of information, or instances in order to formulate or build a likely generalization. | 77 | |
| 7250726723 | inference | involves arriving at a decision or opinion by reasoning from known facts or evidence. | 78 | |
| 7250726724 | interrogative sentences | Sentences that ask or pose a question. | 79 | |
| 7250726725 | introduction | The beginning or opening of an essay. | 80 | |
| 7250726726 | irony | The use of language to suggest the opposite of what is stated. | 81 | |
| 7250726727 | issue | The main question upon which an entire argument rests. | 82 | |
| 7250726728 | 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 | |
| 7250726729 | juxtaposition | A technique in writing or essay organization is the placing of elements-either similar or contrasting- close together, positioning them side in order to illuminate the subject. | 84 | |
| 7250726730 | levels of language | 85 | ||
| 7250726731 | linear order | 86 | ||
| 7250726732 | listing | 87 | ||
| 7250726733 | logic | 88 | ||
| 7250726734 | metaphor | 89 | ||
| 7250726735 | 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 | |
| 7250726736 | mood | 91 | ||
| 7250726737 | motif | 92 | ||
| 7250726738 | myth | 93 | ||
| 7250726739 | narration | 94 | ||
| 7250726740 | non sequitur | 95 | ||
| 7250726741 | objective / subjective | 96 | ||
| 7250726742 | onomatopoeia | 97 | ||
| 7250726743 | order | 98 | ||
| 7250726744 | overstatement | 99 | ||
| 7250726745 | paradox | 100 | ||
| 7250726746 | paragraph | 101 | ||
| 7250726747 | parallelism | 102 | ||
| 7250726748 | paraphrase | 103 | ||
| 7250726749 | parenthetical | 104 | ||
| 7250726750 | parody | 105 | ||
| 7250726751 | periphrasis | 106 | ||
| 7250726752 | persona | 107 | ||
| 7250726753 | personification | 108 | ||
| 7250726754 | persuasion | 109 | ||
| 7250726755 | point of view | 110 | ||
| 7250726756 | 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 | |
| 7250726757 | process analysis | 112 | ||
| 7250726758 | progression | 113 | ||
| 7250726759 | proportion | 114 | ||
| 7250726760 | proposition | 115 | ||
| 7250726761 | purpose | 116 | ||
| 7250726762 | refutation | 117 | ||
| 7250726763 | repetition | 118 | ||
| 7250726764 | 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 | |
| 7250726765 | rhetorical question | a question asked only to emphasize a point, introduce a topic, or provoke thought, but not to elicit an answer. | 120 | |
| 7250726766 | rhythm | in prose writing it is a regular recurrence of elements or features in sentences, creating a patterned emphasis, balance, or contrast. | 121 | |
| 7250726767 | sarcasm | 122 | ||
| 7250726768 | 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 | |
| 7250726769 | sensory language | language that appeals to any of the five senses--sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell. | 124 | |
| 7250726770 | 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 | |
| 7250726771 | series | 126 | ||
| 7250726772 | setting | 127 | ||
| 7250726773 | simile | a figurative comparison using "like" or "as". | 128 | |
| 7250726774 | 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 | |
| 7250726775 | spatial order | 130 | ||
| 7250726776 | statistics | 131 | ||
| 7250726777 | style | 132 | ||
| 7250726778 | subordination | 133 | ||
| 7250726779 | 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 | |
| 7250726780 | symbol | 135 | ||
| 7250726781 | synonym | 136 | ||
| 7250726782 | 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 | |
| 7250726783 | 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 | |
| 7250726784 | 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 | |
| 7250726785 | topic sentence | the main idea that a paragraph develops; not all paragraphs have one, often the topic is implied. | 140 | |
| 7250726786 | transition | 141 | ||
| 7250726787 | understatement | a method of making a weaker statement than is warranted by truth, accuracy, or importance. | 142 | |
| 7250726788 | unity | 143 | ||
| 7250726789 | usage | 144 | ||
| 7250726790 | 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 |
