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| 5072552455 | Allegory | A work that functions on a symbolic level. | 0 | |
| 5072557031 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 1 | |
| 5072564350 | Allusion | A reference contained in a work. | 2 | |
| 5072564351 | Anaphora | The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. | 3 | |
| 5072580781 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. | 4 | |
| 5072590701 | Antithesis | The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. | 5 | |
| 5072595853 | Aphorism | A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. | 6 | |
| 5072597469 | Apostrophe | The act of addressing some inanimate abstraction or person that is not physically present. | 7 | |
| 5072609832 | Appeals to... authority, emotion, or logic | Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker uses ethos, pathos, and/or logos to make the argument. | 8 | |
| 5072621811 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words. | 9 | |
| 5072633524 | Asynedeton | A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose. | 10 | |
| 5072647687 | Attitude | The sense expressed by the tone of voice of a piece; the author's feeling toward the subject, characters, events, theme, or audience of a piece. | 11 | |
| 5072657029 | Begging the Question | An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evading or ignoring the real question. | 12 | |
| 5072661509 | Canon | That which has been accepted as authentic. | 13 | |
| 5072666863 | Chiasmus | A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second. | 14 | |
| 5072671687 | Claim | In argumentation, an assertion of something as fact. | 15 | |
| 5072674707 | Colloquial | The use of slang in writing, often to create local color and to provide an informal tone. | 16 | |
| 5072680626 | Comparison and Contrast | A mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared, contrasted, or both. | 17 | |
| 5072770271 | Conceit | A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor. | 18 | |
| 5072781811 | Connotation | The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning. | 19 | |
| 5072794465 | Consonance | The repetition of two or mores consonants with a change in the intervening vowels. | 20 | |
| 5072799310 | Convention | An accepted manner, model, or tradition. | 21 | |
| 5072808269 | Critique | An assessment or analysis of something, such as a passage of writing, for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre. | 22 | |
| 5072812468 | Deduction | The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example. | 23 | |
| 5072816323 | Diction | The author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning. | 24 | |
| 5072822931 | Didactic | A writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach. | 25 | |
| 5072826878 | Elegy | A poem or prose work that lamants, or meditates upon the death of, a person or persons. | 26 | |
| 5072831420 | Epigraph | The use of quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme. | 27 | |
| 5072840585 | Epistrophe | In rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences. | 28 | |
| 5072845110 | Epitaph | Writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone. | 29 | |
| 5072850507 | Ethos | In rhetoric, the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator. | 30 |
