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| 14847258220 | Allusion | A brief reference to a person, event, or place or work of art | 0 | |
| 14847258221 | Ambiguity | Double of even multiple meanings. Unintentional is considered a defect, and intentional can add richness to the text. In the form of a pun or lay on words, can be a source of humor | 1 | |
| 14847258222 | Analogy | A comparison of similar things, often for the purpose of using something familiar to explain something unfamiliar | 2 | |
| 14847258223 | Anecdote | a brief story used to illustrate a point or claim | 3 | |
| 14847258224 | Antecedent | Something that comes before. In the context of grammar, the ( ) of a pronoun is the word that the pronoun stands for | 4 | |
| 14847258225 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 5 | |
| 14847258226 | Bias | The tendency to have an opinion or view that is often held without considering evidence and other information. The degree to which a source does or does not consider other positions reflects the degree to which that source is biased | 6 | |
| 14847258227 | colloquial/colloquialism | A word or phrase in everyday use in conversation an informal writing, but sometimes inappropriate in a formal essay | 7 | |
| 14847258228 | Concession | An acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable | 8 | |
| 14847258229 | Confirmation bias | The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less attention to information that contradicts it | 9 | |
| 14847258230 | Connotation | Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation. Connotations are often positive or negative, and they often greatly affect the author's tone | 10 | |
| 14847258231 | Context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. Includes time, place, and occasion | 11 | |
| 14847258232 | Counter argument | An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward. A strong writer will usually address it through a process of concession and refutation | 12 | |
| 14847258233 | Dialect | The version of a language spoken by the people of a particular region or social group. Differing in vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation. Develops when groups of people are separated by natural or social barriers | 13 | |
| 14847258234 | Digress | To temporarily depart from the main subject in a speech or in a written text | 14 | |
| 14847258235 | Epiphany | A moment of revelation or profound insight. In Greek mythology, this was a sudden revelation to a human being of the hidden or disguised divinity of a god or goddess. | 15 | |
| 14847258236 | Epithet | An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing to emphasize a characteristic quality or attribute, such as "lily-livered coward" or "murmuring brook" | 16 | |
| 14847258237 | Eulogy | A formal composition or speech in high praise of someone ( living or dead ) or something | 17 | |
| 14847258238 | Euphemism | A mild expression substitute for one considered too harsh or improper | 18 | |
| 14847258239 | Exigence | The part of the rhetorical situation that inspires, simulated, provokes, or prompts the writers to create the text | 19 | |
| 14847258240 | Figurative Language | No literal language, sometimes referred to as tropes or metaphorical language, often evoking strong imagery; figures of speech | 20 | |
| 14847258241 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis to produce a comics or ironic effect | 21 | |
| 14847258242 | Imagery | A description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds. May use literal or figurative language to appeal to the senses | 22 | |
| 14847258243 | Incongruity | The quality of being in harmonious or incompatible or inconsistent | 23 | |
| 14847258244 | Irony | A figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing and means something else(verbal), when what is said is the opposite of what is expected reacting a noticeable incongruity(situational), Incongruity with what you expect and what happens | 24 | |
| 14847258245 | Verbal irony | Contrast between what is said and what is meant | 25 | |
| 14847258246 | Situational irony | Refers to the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs | 26 | |
| 14847258247 | Dramatic irony | When a character unwittingly makes a remark that the audience is intended to understand, or in contradiction to the full truth | 27 | |
| 14847258248 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. An extended ( ) is sustained throughout the work and functions as a controlling image | 28 | |
| 14847258249 | Occasion | The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 29 | |
| 14847258250 | Oxymoron | A paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words | 30 | |
| 14847258251 | Paradox | A statement or situation that is seemingly contradictory on the surface, but delivers an ironic truth Ex: modern day conveniences- microwave, computer, etc are supposed to be more efficient and save time, but they have become more problematic and wasting time more | 31 | |
| 14847258252 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 32 | |
| 14847258253 | Periodic structure | A sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 33 | |
| 14847258254 | Persona | Greek for "mask". The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience | 34 | |
| 14847258255 | Refute | To deny the validity of an opposing argument | 35 | |
| 14847258256 | Rhetoric | the art of finding ways of persuading an audience | 36 | |
| 14847258257 | Rhetorical situation | Refers to the exigence, purpose, audience, context, and message | 37 | |
| 14847258258 | Satire | The use of irony or sarcasm to criticize society or an individual | 38 | |
| 14847258259 | Syntax | The arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. This includes word order, the length and structure of sentences, and such schemes as parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, and antimetabole | 39 | |
| 14847258260 | Tone | A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices | 40 | |
| 14847258261 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, good, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect | 41 | |
| 14847258262 | Parody | A composition that ridicules another composition by imitating and exaggerating aspects of its content., structure, and style, accomplishing in words what caricature achieves in drawing | 42 |
