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| 14460870375 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other composition techniques. | 0 | |
| 14460870376 | Kairos | means taking advantage of or even creating a perfect moment to deliver a particular message | 1 | |
| 14460870377 | Decorum | appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety | 2 | |
| 14460870919 | Audience | Who the author is directing his or her message towards | 3 | |
| 14460870920 | Ethos | Setting up a source as credible and trustworthy. | 4 | |
| 14460871915 | Pathos | Involves appealing to someone's emotion | 5 | |
| 14460871916 | Logos | Appealing to someone's sense of concrete facts and logic. | 6 | |
| 14460872993 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 7 | |
| 14460872994 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 8 | |
| 14460872999 | Metonymy | uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch ; Also, "The pen is mightier than the sword." | 9 | |
| 14460873818 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 10 | |
| 14460873819 | Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 11 | |
| 14460876652 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 12 | |
| 14460876653 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 13 | |
| 14460876654 | Rehtorical question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer. | 14 | |
| 14460877583 | Antithesis | rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 15 | |
| 14460877584 | Litotes | an understatement in which a positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite (not bad) | 16 | |
| 14460877585 | Paradox | statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow (wise fool) | 17 | |
| 14460878040 | Synecdoche | a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa (all hands on deck) | 18 | |
| 14784343824 | Polysyndeton | stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect (and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen) all ands | 19 | |
| 14784346470 | Asyndeton | intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases, yet maintain grammatical accuracy (Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure). | 20 | |
| 15120085753 | Motif | A recurring symbol that relates to the theme | 21 | |
| 15120089258 | Satire | expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. (criticism) | 22 | |
| 15120089259 | Parody | imitation of a particular writer, artist, or genre (imitate/make fun of) | 23 | |
| 15120093895 | Analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it | 24 | |
| 15120093896 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 25 | |
| 15120099474 | Crucible | a severe test or trial | 26 |
