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| 7046898300 | Ad Hominem | Latin for "against the man." When a writer personally attacked his or her opponents instead of their arguments. | 0 | |
| 7046899395 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. | 1 | |
| 7046967797 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 2 | |
| 7046967798 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 3 | |
| 7046967799 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence or line of poetry. | 4 | |
| 7046967800 | Allegory | A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. | 5 | |
| 7046967801 | Allusion | An indirect, or expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. | 6 | |
| 7046967802 | Anachronism | Anything out of its proper time. | 7 | |
| 7046967803 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 8 | |
| 7046967804 | Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. | 9 | |
| 7046967805 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 10 | |
| 7046967806 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience. | 11 | |
| 7046967807 | Epistrophe | A rhetorical figure by which the same word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive sentences. | 12 | |
| 7046967808 | Antihero | A central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes in romances and epics. | 13 | |
| 7046967809 | Aphorism | A concise statement of a truth or principle. | 14 | |
| 7046967810 | Apology | In the literary sense, a justification or defense of the writer's opinion or conduct, not usually implying any admission of blame. | 15 | |
| 7046967811 | Apostrophe | Address to an absent or imaginary person. | 16 | |
| 7046967812 | Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing or recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. | 17 | |
| 7046967813 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. | 18 | |
| 7046967814 | Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. | 19 | |
| 7046967815 | Comic Relief | In a tragedy, a break in the seriousness for a moment of comedy or silliness. | 20 | |
| 7046967816 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor. | 21 | |
| 7046967817 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 22 | |
| 7046967818 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word. | 23 | |
| 7046967819 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words. | 24 | |
| 7046967820 | Didactic | Instructive. | 25 | |
| 7046967821 | Enthymeme | Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated. | 26 | |
| 7046967822 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant. | 27 | |
| 7047396005 | Fallacy | A false or mistaken idea. | 28 | |
| 7047396006 | Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration. | 29 | |
| 7047396007 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). | 30 | |
| 7047396008 | Inference | A conclusion one can draw from the presented details. | 31 | |
| 7047396009 | Verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant. | 32 | |
| 7047396010 | Situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected. | 33 | |
| 7047396011 | Dramatic irony | The audience knows something the characters do not. | 34 | |
| 7047396012 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. | 35 | |
| 7047396013 | Logic | The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences. | 36 | |
| 7047396014 | Loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. | 37 | |
| 7047396015 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as. | 38 | |
| 7047396016 | Metonymy | Substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it. | 39 | |
| 7047396017 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. | 40 | |
| 7047396018 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea. | 41 | |
| 7047396019 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 42 | |
| 7047396020 | Parallelism | The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 43 | |
| 7047396021 | Paradox | A contradiction or dilemma. | 44 | |
| 7047396022 | Pedantic | Tending to show off one's learning. | 45 | |
| 7047396023 | Periodic sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end. | 46 | |
| 7047396024 | Personification | The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. | 47 | |
| 7047396025 | Polysyndeton | A rhetorical device for the repeated use of conjunctions to link a succession of words, clauses, or sentences. | 48 | |
| 7047396026 | Rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively. | 49 | |
| 7047396027 | Rhetorical modes | exposition - To explain and analyze information. description - To recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place, event or action so that the reader can picture that being described. narration - To tell a story. argumentation - To prove the validity of an idea or point of view by presenting sound reasoning, discussion, and argument that thoroughly convinced is the reader. | 50 | |
| 7047396028 | Rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 51 | |
| 7047396029 | Satire | Using humor to expose something or someone to ridicule. | 52 | |
| 7047396030 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as". | 53 | |
| 7047396031 | Style | 1. The evaluation of the choices an author makes. 2. The classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors. * By doing so we are able to see how an author style reflects and helps to define historical period. | 54 | |
| 7047423597 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning with a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. * usually in this form : all x are y, z is x, so therefore, z is y | 55 | |
| 7047423598 | Symbol | Something that stands for something else. | 56 | |
| 7047423599 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. example - Referring to a car as "wheels." | 57 | |
| 7047423600 | Syntax | Sentence structure. | 58 | |
| 7047423601 | Theme | Central idea of a work of literature. | 59 | |
| 7047423602 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. | 60 | |
| 7047423603 | Ethos | Refers to the trustworthiness of the writer. Ethos is often conveyed through tone and style of the message and through the way the writer refers to differing views. * appeal from credibility | 61 | |
| 7047423604 | Pathos | Appealing to emotion. * to appeal to the audience's sympathies and imagination. * Identify with the writer's view | 62 | |
| 7047423605 | Logos | Appeal to logic. * refers to the internal consistency of the message, the clarity of the claim, the logic of its reasons, and the effectiveness of it supporting evidence. | 63 |
