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| 4742003055 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. Ex: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. | 0 | |
| 4742004571 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. Ex: Ellen acted she's the Helen of Troy. | 1 | |
| 4742004988 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. Ex: Life is like a box of chocolate | 2 | |
| 4742006241 | Anaphora | Repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. Ex: I want money right now, right here, all right? | 3 | |
| 4742009825 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event Ex: | 4 | |
| 4742029025 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. Ex: Student taking notes on examples from | 5 | |
| 4742029389 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. Ex: John plays the guitar in the park. Everyone goes there to listen. | 6 | |
| 4742030467 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast Ex: "Eat to live, not live to eat,"-Socrates | 7 | |
| 4742176005 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas Ex: You are easy on the eye but hard on the heart. | 8 | |
| 4752619077 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth Ex: "Youth is blunder, manhood a struggle, old age regret"- Benjamin Disraeli | 9 | |
| 4752680165 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. Ex: The insect, a cockroach, crawls around the kitchen. | 10 | |
| 4752681711 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. Ex: hath, thy, thee, etc. | 11 | |
| 4752686053 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. Ex:Milk is beneficial to children. It gives them vitamins that helps there bone. | 12 | |
| 4752686054 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle). |  | 13 |
| 4752687276 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. Ex: I understand you're busy, and me too but it is difficult to finish this project on my own. So I want you to help me completing this project. | 14 | |
| 4752687872 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof Ex: The earth is flat. | 15 | |
| 4752689428 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. Ex: "without looking, without making a sound, without talking"(Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles) | 16 | |
| 4752690321 | Attitude- | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 4752690322 | Audience | One's listener or readership | 18 | |
| 4752740980 | Authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 19 | |
| 4752740981 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue Ex: If a person loves sports they tend to be more biased on what they sports they play. | 20 | |
| 4752742640 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 4752746975 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 4752747958 | Close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language,sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text | 23 | |
| 4752749264 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 4752749773 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 4752750355 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. Ex: I burned the dinner but not the cake. | 26 | |
| 4752750866 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 27 | |
| 4752752058 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning. Ex: Home means to feel safe, comfort, and family | 28 | |
| 4752752622 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. Ex: He met an obstruction on the way. The rocks and boulder blocked his path. | 29 | |
| 4752812827 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 30 | |
| 4752813280 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. Cumulative sentence An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 31 | |
| 4753550056 | Cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 32 | |
| 4752814783 | Declarative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 33 | |
| 4752815874 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. | 34 | |
| 4752817964 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. Ex: Home is a place where you can stay | 35 | |
| 4752822658 | Diction | Word choice. | 36 | |
| 4752834324 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 37 | |
| 4752835865 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 38 | |
| 4752836339 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. Ex: "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."(John F. Kennedy) | 39 | |
| 4752837357 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). Ex: Using professional athletes to endorse a product. | 40 | |
| 4752838636 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect Ex: Metaphors, simile, hyperbole, etc. | 41 | |
| 4752841100 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. Ex: Silly sells shells. | 42 | |
| 4752842291 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. Ex: Your house looks like a tornado went over it. | 43 | |
| 4752844289 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste,touch, hearing). Ex: The small loaf of banana bread tasted sweet and smelled great. | 44 | |
| 4752844808 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. Ex: You must run now. | 45 | |
| 4752845375 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. | 46 | |
| 4752850158 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 47 | |
| 4752850580 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 48 | |
| 4752883245 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 49 | |
| 4752885296 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) Ex: Telephone companies used facts to show that they're better than the other. | 50 | |
| 4752919661 | 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. Ex: Dave is a bear when it comes to eating. | 51 | |
| 4752926391 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 52 | |
| 4752927184 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 53 | |
| 4752930091 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 54 | |
| 4752930611 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 55 | |
| 4752931575 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 56 | |
| 4752933314 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 57 | |
| 4752934018 | 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). Ex: Using dogs abandoned to donate to their cause. | 58 | |
| 4752934909 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 59 | |
| 4752940148 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. Ex: The house look at him with pleasure. | 60 | |
| 4752954156 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. Ex: Any type of religion is stupid since there's not a lot of evidence of a god. | 61 | |
| 4753426569 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 62 | |
| 4753428489 | Premise: major, minor | Two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of asyllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise | 63 | |
| 4753431808 | Major Premise | All mammals are warm-blooded | 64 | |
| 4753434219 | Minor Premise | Horses are warm-blooded. | 65 | |
| 4753538683 | conlusion | All horses are warm-blooded | 66 | |
| 4753447880 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 67 | |
| 4753448711 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. Ex: The Declaration of Independence purpose was to declare independence from Britain. | 68 | |
| 4753451028 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 69 | |
| 4753452185 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle,use of the "available means of persuasion." | 70 | |
| 4753452839 | 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. | 71 | |
| 4753452840 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 72 | |
| 4753458297 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle). | 73 | |
| 4753502704 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 74 | |
| 4753504226 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 75 | |
| 4753504995 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions - such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 76 | |
| 4753505417 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 77 | |
| 4753505859 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. Ex: She ran as fast as a cheetah. | 78 | |
| 4753507156 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 79 | |
| 4753508006 | Source | A book, article, person or other resource consulted for information | 80 | |
| 4753508717 | 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 | 81 | |
| 4753509888 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | 82 | |
| 4753511595 | Style | The distinctive quality if speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 83 | |
| 4753512082 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 84 | |
| 4753512693 | Subordinate clause | Created b a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 85 | |
| 4753513235 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 86 | |
| 4753514131 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise. (see premise; major, and minor) | 87 | |
| 4753515034 | Syntax | Sentence structure. | 88 | |
| 4753515884 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 89 | |
| 4753516381 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 90 | |
| 4753517370 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 91 | |
| 4753522530 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 92 | |
| 4753524198 | 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 | 93 | |
| 4753529151 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a non-literal way; also called figure of speech | 94 | |
| 4753529874 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restrain in language often used for ironic effect | 95 | |
| 4753530170 | 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. | 96 | |
| 4753532572 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs- often in different, sometimes in congruent ways- two or more words in a sentence | 97 |
