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| 7052844950 | Abstract Diction | Language used to describe qualities that cannot be noticed with our five senses. ex.) His eyes were yearning for freedom and seemed desperate for love. | 0 | |
| 7052877729 | Active Voice | Describes a sentence where the subject performs the action stated by the verb. ex.) Snow White bought an apple from the Evil Stepmother. | 1 | |
| 7052877755 | Adage | A proverb or short statement expressing a general truth. ex.) Out of sight out of mind. | 2 | |
| 7052878853 | Ad Hominem | Attacking the person they are arguing against, instead of what they are saying. ex.) "You won't be the president because you're mean and selfish." | 3 | |
| 7052878854 | Allegory | Characters, images, plot, events, or even the book itself acts as a symbol. ex.) Animal Farm | 4 | |
| 7052879604 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series. ex.) She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells. | 5 | |
| 7052879605 | Allusion | When author/person makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure. ex.) Your hair looks like the Big Bang Theory. | 6 | |
| 7052879627 | Ampersand | The sign &, stands for and ex.) Tiffany&Co. | 7 | |
| 7052880602 | Analogy | Comparison between two things; usually for explanation or clarification/Comparison of two things to show their similarities. ex.) Finding a good man is like finding a needle in a haystack. | 8 | |
| 7052880603 | Anaphora | Reference to already introduced referents. ex.) I like sweet potatoes. They taste good. | 9 | |
| 7052882026 | Anecdote | A short account of a humorous or revealing incident. ex.) I fell down the stairs in front of my friends. | 10 | |
| 7052882027 | Annotation | A note added by way of comment or explanation. ex.) Mr. Bob annotated in my essay enhancing the quality of the work. | 11 | |
| 7052882682 | Antecedent | Someone or something that existed before/the word that the pronoun replaces. ex.) Joo threw away her phone. | 12 | |
| 7052882683 | Antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with each other ex.) Love and Hate | 13 | |
| 7052883188 | Aphorism | A brief often witty saying; a proverb ex.) Nothing is perfect except for the fact that "nothing is perfect." -Joo | 14 | |
| 7052883189 | Apostrophe | A punctuation mark (') used to indicate either possession (e.g. Harry's book; boys' coats) or the omission of letters or numbers (e.g. can't; he's; 1 Jan. '99). ex.) It is -> It's | 15 | |
| 7052884189 | Appeal to Authority | Form of argument in which expert opinion supports the argument's conclusion/fallacy/an argument based on unsound logic. ex.) University professor recommends his book for his tests because it's written by him (actually does not help with the test at all, the purpose for this is to earn money). |  | 16 |
| 7052884802 | Appeal to Bandwagon | The argument that since something is popular or everybody is doing it, so should you. ex.) I should buy an iPhone because everyone buys iPhone. | 17 | |
| 7052884803 | Appositive | A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. ex.) I studied in the hagwon, an academy prevalent in South Korea, during this summer. | 18 | |
| 7052887237 | Archetype | Typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. It may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting. ex.) Pikachu assists the main character. | 19 | |
| 7052887238 | Argumentation | Main statement in diverse literature genres that appears as an introduction or a point which the writer/author will develop later on. ex.) "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." | 20 | |
| 7052890108 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words. Usually used in poetry and prose. ex.) Row row row your boat | 21 | |
| 7052890109 | Asyndeton | Meant to eliminate conjunctions between the phrases & in the sentence, while maintaining the grammatical accuracy. ex.) I practiced, I studied, I won. | 22 | |
| 7052891176 | Auditory Imagery | Author's usage of detailed language to add depth to the work. ex.) The grape juice tasted sour and sweet. | 23 | |
| 7052891177 | Balanced Sentence | Consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure. ex.) I am true to nature: I eat, sleep, and eat. | 24 | |
| 7052892252 | Burlesque | Form of satire. ex.) Roses are red, violets are blue, your phone is smart, why not you? | 25 | |
| 7052892253 | Cacophony | Harsh sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds. ex.) The kid went ahead and yelled, "Smelly boogly bakabaka wakawaka socks are running tappy away!" | 26 | |
| 7052893138 | Caricature | A portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated often to prove some point about its subject. |  | 27 |
| 7052893139 | Chiasmus | Words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. ex.) Love is happiness and happiness is love | 28 | |
| 7052893660 | Colloquialism | a non-formal/literary word or phrase, typically used in ordinary or familiar conversation ex.) Suit yourself. | 29 | |
| 7052893661 | Concrete Diction | Language that uses specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions. ex.) The heated/hot knife was used to torture Kana. | 30 | |
| 7052894479 | Connotation | Implied or suggested meaning/feelings or ideas associated with a word or phrase. ex.) Positive Con.: I like your beanie. Negative Con.: Your hair is disgusting. | 31 | |
| 7052894480 | Consonance | Repetition of the same consonant two or more times. ex.) The white snow of winter comes down with the cold wind. | 32 | |
| 7052895233 | Concession | A clause which begins/uses "although" or "even though" and expresses an idea that suggests the opposite of the main part of the sentence. ex.) Although her voice is loud, she isn't talkative. | 33 | |
| 7052895234 | Conditional Statement | if-then statement in which p is a hypothesis and q is a conclusion. ex.) If it's raining, I'm not going. | 34 | |
| 7052896667 | Counterargument | opposing statement that goes against my main argument. ex.) Chocolates are good. Dulce de Leche sucks. Counter=Chocolates are disgusting. Dulce de Leche is way better. | 35 | |
| 7052896668 | Cumulative Sentence | Begins with independent clause and ends with a series of modifiers. ex.) I opened my eyes wearily, worried that I was late, and thought about school. | 36 | |
| 7052897385 | Denotation | literal or dictionary meanings of a word ex.) sword | 37 | |
| 7052897386 | Deduction | Method of reasoning from the general to the specific. ex.) The balls sky blue or more or less sky blue. | 38 | |
| 7052897941 | Diction | Style of speaking or writing used my the author. ex.) Shakespeare's language | 39 | |
| 7052897942 | Discourse | Speech or writing normally longer than sentences which deals with a certain subject formally in the form of writing or speech. Spoken: Conversations/Lectures Written: Reports | 40 | |
| 7052898793 | Dramatic Irony | The audience or reader knows something another character doesn't know. ex.) Bob didn't know that there was a surprise birthday party for him but the readers knew it. | 41 | |
| 7052898794 | Ellipsis | Omission of a word or part of a sentence that is replaced by three dots. ex.) If only you knew my heart... | 42 | |
| 7052899268 | Ethos | Expertise and the trustworthiness of the source. ex.) If a famous person advertises a product, it is an example of ethos. | 43 | |
| 7052899269 | Epigraph | An inscription on a building, statue, or coin/A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme. ex.) The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. -Ernest Hemingway | 44 | |
| 7052899884 | Epanalepsis | Repetition of the initial word (or words) of a clause or sentence at the end of that same clause or sentence ex.) The star was more than just a star. |  | 45 |
| 7052901322 | Euphemism | Make something bad sound good. ex.) Don't call him a murderer! Call him a possible criminal. | 46 | |
| 7052901323 | Euphony | Pleasant sound; pleasing to hear; pleasing to the ear; harmonious | 47 | |
| 7052913286 | Explication | Line by line analysis of the literary text. ex) Out, out- | 48 | |
| 7052913890 | Exposition | Introduce background information to audience/readers. ex.) Bob is 24 years old and has autism. | 49 | |
| 7052914739 | Extended Metaphor | Metaphor extended/developed over several lines of writing or an entire paragraph. ex.) All that inhabit this great earth, whatever be their rank of worth, are kindred and allied by birth, and made of the same clay. | 50 | |
| 7052914740 | False Analogy | Informal fallacy b/c the error is about what the argument is about, and not the argument itself. ex.) Not erasing your makeup is like leaving a toxic compound on your face. | 51 | |
| 7052915781 | Figurative Language | Comparison of two things using/including words like as or like. ex.) Pencils are like pen and pens are like pencils. | 52 | |
| 7052915782 | Foreshadowing | The hint the writer gives that comes later in the story. ex.) The broken statue of the king was the foreshadowing of the author. | 53 | |
| 7052915877 | Generalization | Broad idea applied to group of people/things. ex.) Asian girls are short. | 54 | |
| 7052916734 | Genre | Category of a literary composition. ex.) I love Fantasy genre books. | 55 | |
| 7052917305 | Gustatory Imagery | Imagery related to taste. ex.) Sour, sweet, acidic, bitter, salty | 56 | |
| 7052917306 | Hasty Generalization | Biased generalization. ex.) All cats hate water./All dogs love water. | 57 | |
| 7052917858 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration. ex.) The cat just bit me! I'm going to die! | 58 | |
| 7052917859 | Hypophora | Speaker poses a question and then answers the question | 59 | |
| 7052922569 | Idiom | Expression which the words doesn't mean what they exactly mean. ex.) The test was a piece of cake. | 60 | |
| 7052922711 | Induction | Informal logic ex.) Men die, grass dies, men are grass. | 61 | |
| 7052923929 | Inference | Drawing conclusions and assuming something based on clues in the text. ex.) Since the book said that he would only live up to age 20, Carly would die soon. | 62 | |
| 7052923930 | Inversion | Normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter. ex.) His real plan is to make everyone fail the test. To make everyone fail the test is his real plan. | 63 | |
| 7052924724 | Isocolon | sentence/phrase/clauses grammatically equal length A succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. |  | 64 |
| 7052930154 | Jargon | Use of specific phrases/words by writers/authors. ex.) UFO, F.Y.I | 65 | |
| 7052948741 | Juxtaposition | Comparing two items side by side. ex.) Ed Sheeran's Shape of you and Sia's The Greatest are similar. | 66 | |
| 7052948742 | Kinesthetic Imagery | What you feel ex.) I bumped by bruise to the edge of my desk and made my bruise even darker. | 67 | |
| 7052949549 | Litotes | Negative understatement to convey the negative opposite meaning. ex.) Good-not bad, She's pretty-She's not ugly | 68 | |
| 7052949550 | Logical Fallacy | Error in reasoning that renders an argument. ex.) The god couldn't hear you well enough because you didn't believe enough. | 69 | |
| 7052955280 | Loose Sentence | A long sentence that has the main idea in the beginning followed by supporting information. ex.) She went skiing, to visit his family, and to have some fun. | 70 | |
| 7052955281 | Logos | Persuading by the use of reasoning. ex.) I support my claim with the graph shown above recorded in 2012... | 71 | |
| 7052956341 | Metaphor | A comparison in which one thing is said to be another. ex.) My dad is a walking dictionary. | 72 | |
| 7052956342 | Metonymy | Name of one object is replaced by another name closely related with it. ex.) The Blue House declared that from now on... | 73 | |
| 7052960673 | Mood | Feeling created in the reader by literary work or passage. ex.) It was a dark and stormy night... | 74 | |
| 7052961416 | Motif | An image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme. ex.) Cinderella's action of keeping the other glass shoe. | 75 | |
| 7052961417 | Non- sequitur | Statements that do not follow the fundamental principles of logic and reason. ex.) Jesus did not have wheels. | 76 | |
| 7052962007 | Objectivity | Main emphasis should be on the information that I want to give and the arguments I want to make, rather than me. ex.) You can easily forget incidents that took place decades ago, -> It is easy to forget the incidents..." | 77 | |
| 7052962008 | Olfactory Imagery | Sense of smell ex.) Dude! Your feet smells like rotten cheese! Ugh | 78 | |
| 7052962880 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound of a thing. ex.) Bang! Boom! Buzz | 79 | |
| 7052962881 | Oxymoron | Two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. ex.) Pretty ugly, roaring silence, act naturally, walking dead, passive aggressive | 80 | |
| 7052964344 | Parable | Comparison. ex.) Should I wait for my sister or should I eat it first? | 81 | |
| 7052964345 | Paradox | Contrary to expectations ex.) War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. | 82 | |
| 7052964951 | Parallelism | Parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction ex.) Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from earth. | 83 | |
| 7052964952 | Parody | Either a humorous/satirical imitation of literature/writing or genre of literary composition. ex.) Do you wanna build a wall (Frozen parody) | 84 | |
| 7052965586 | Passive Voice | Subject is acted upon by the verb. ex.) An apple was bought from the Evil Stepmother. | 85 | |
| 7052965587 | Parenthetical Idea | A comment that interrupts the immediate subject, often to qualify or explain. ex.) The UFO, Unidentified flying object, was... | 86 | |
| 7052966664 | Pathos | The quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity ex.) Bob's best friend Gigi the cow, died last night. | 87 | |
| 7052966665 | Periodic Sentence | Has the main clause at the end. ex.) So, the overarching issue claimed by the author is that the dogs are being abandoned by too many people. | 88 | |
| 7052967208 | Personification | Endowing non-human objects or creatures with human qualities or characteristics. ex.) The face of the rose was enchanting and beautiful | 89 | |
| 7052970337 | Point of View 1.) First person 2.) Stream of consciousness 3.) Omniscient 4.) Limited Omniscient 5.) Third Person | Angle of opinion. 1.) I, we, narrative. 2.) Flow of thoughts and images 3.) Third person in which the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of every character in the story. 4.) Confines the story to one particular character's point of view, and can be presented from either a first person angle or a third person angle focused on just one character./A narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character and restricts information. 5.) Knows the thoughts and feelings of only one character. | 90 | |
| 7052971972 | Polysyndeton | Sentence using conjunctions without commas ex.) We laughed and loved and slept. | 91 | |
| 7052973529 | Premise | A proposition antecedently supposed or proved ex.) Eating healthy is the key factor to become healthy. | 92 | |
| 7052973530 | Pun | Words that have the same sounds but have different meanings. ex.) The only date that is a command: March 4th | 93 | |
| 7052974034 | Qualifier | Word or phrase (such as very) that precedes an adjective or adverb, increasing or decreasing the quality signified by the word it modifies. ex.) I ran down the stairs very quickly. (very=qualifier, quickly=adverb) | 94 | |
| 7052974035 | Rebuttal/rebut | to contradict; to argue in opposition to; to prove to be false | 95 | |
| 7052977098 | Red Herring | Fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue. ex.) It turned out that Mimi was not in the castle in June 19th. Then...is she the true criminal? | 96 | |
| 7052977099 | Regionalism | Fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, etc. ex.) detailed settings, dialects of the people | 97 | |
| 7052977577 | Rhetoric | the art of presenting ideas in a clear, effective, and persuasive manner ex.) Eleanor Roosevelt's speech was to explain people what "true freedom" is and also criticize Russia for it's type of government. | 98 | |
| 7052977578 | Rhetorical Modes 1.) Exposition 2.) Description 3.) Narration 4.) Argumentation 5.) Cause and Effect | Describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking. 1.) introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc 2.) explains the features of smth 3.) a story or narrated account 4.) a statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work 5.) The result of the other | 99 | |
| 7052979166 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer ex.) Is it better to live a life with infinite wealth or is it better to live with your own power and wealth? | 100 | |
| 7052979700 | Sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule/verbal irony ex.) I spilled my coke! Anyone have a tissue? (gives only one tissue) Oh wow. Thank you so much. | 101 | |
| 7052979701 | Satire | the use of humor to emphasize human weaknesses or imperfections in social institutions ex.) Animal Farm by George Orwell | 102 | |
| 7052980157 | Setting | the time, place, and environment in which action takes place ex.) The setting will take place in Korea. | 103 | |
| 7052980158 | Simile | a comparison of two things using "like," "as," or other specifically comparative words ex.) Melon is like watermelon. | 104 | |
| 7052980733 | Situational Irony | When a character or reader expects one thing to happen but something completely different occurs. ex.) I'm too tired...maybe I'll stay in bed. You know what? I'm going to party all night! | 105 | |
| 7052980734 | Speaker | the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud. ex.) The speaker told me that the time was running out! | 106 | |
| 7052981625 | Stereotype | Character with generalized traits. ex.) Usually, the hero's friend supports the hero. | 107 | |
| 7052982357 | Straw Man | Common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent. ex.) Those who oppose death penalty are those who allow murderers to commit crime again and get off with no punishment at all. | 108 | |
| 7052982358 | Style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work ex.) Expository, persuasive, descriptive, narrative | 109 | |
| 7052983947 | Syllogism | a three-part deductive argument in which a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise ex.) "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal" | 110 | |
| 7052983948 | Symbolism | When the author uses an object/reference to add depth to a story. ex.) White = good, black = bad | 111 | |
| 7052984612 | Synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object ex.) referring to a car simply as "wheels" | 112 | |
| 7052984613 | Synesthesia | technique adopted by writers that appeals to all senses ex.) The slimy frog ran down from her head to her toe, getting inside her clothes and leaving McCathy disgust. | 113 | |
| 7052985807 | Syntax | the manner in which words are arranged into sentences ex.) Joo drank a coke. |  | 114 |
| 7052985808 | Tactile Imagery | Sense of touch ex.) The short hair felt like spiky needles when touched. | 115 | |
| 7052986509 | Telegraphic Sentence | Sentence containing five words or less. ex.) Horses are fast. | 116 | |
| 7052986510 | Theme | Central topic. ex.) Theme of Cinderella: True love exists and it's always a happy ending. | 117 | |
| 7052987815 | Thermal Imagery | Imaginative or mental pictures that make use of certain words that create pictorial representation of ideas in minds of the reader. ex.) heat and cold. | 118 | |
| 7052987816 | Thesis Statement | A short statement that summarizes the main point of an essay, claim, etc. | 119 | |
| 7052989814 | Tone | Attitude of the writer. ex.) cautious, serious, humorous, desperate, sarcastic, etc. | 120 | |
| 7052989815 | Tricolon | Rhetorical term that consists of three parallel clauses, phrases, or words, which happen to come in quick succession without any interruption. ex.) life is short | 121 | |
| 7052991002 | Understatement | A figure of speech used by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. ex.) It's no big deal. The doctor told me I had cancer. | 122 | |
| 7052991003 | Unreliable Narrator | A narrator who is difficult to trust or believe. ex.) Humbert from Lolita. | 123 | |
| 7052993475 | Verbal Irony | When a speaker says a thing but means another. ex.) I can't go because I'm sick (I'm not but I'm going to be sick because I don't want to go.) *cough cough* | 124 | |
| 7052994825 | Vernacular | Usage of a language or a dialect native to a region instead of foreign language. ex.) Latin | 125 | |
| 7052994826 | Visual Imagery | Describes what we see ex.) Colors, shapes, size, patterns, etc. | 126 | |
| 7052996352 | Zeugma | Figure of speech when the word applies to two different senses. ex.) She was wearing a black dress and a smile. | 127 |
