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| 5617665021 | Adversary | An enemy or opponent |  | 0 |
| 5617679305 | Alienate | To make indifferent or hostile |  | 1 |
| 5617694537 | Artifice | A skillful or ingenious device |  | 2 |
| 5691502516 | Coerce | to compel or force |  | 3 |
| 5691510164 | Craven | coward |  | 4 |
| 5691510165 | Culinary | of or related to cooking or the kitchen | 5 | |
| 5691515777 | Demise | a death, especially of a person in lofty posititon |  | 6 |
| 5691521651 | Exhilirate | to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to | 7 | |
| 5691533931 | Fallow | inactive | 8 | |
| 5691552178 | Harass | to disturb or worry |  | 9 |
| 5691718595 | Inclement | severe in attitude or action | 10 | |
| 5691734839 | Liquidate | to eliminate | 11 | |
| 5691738536 | Muse | to think about in a dreamy way or ponder |  | 12 |
| 5692093114 | Negligible | so unimportant that it can be disregarded | 13 | |
| 5692097785 | Perpetuate | to make permanent or long lasting |  | 14 |
| 5692102502 | Precedent | an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action | 15 | |
| 5692120386 | Punitive | inflicting or aiming at punishment |  | 16 |
| 5692125322 | Redress | to set right or remedy | 17 | |
| 5692138924 | Sojourn | a temporary stay | 18 | |
| 5692453796 | Urbane | refined in manner or style or suave | 19 | |
| 5742384015 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |  | 20 |
| 5742400708 | Allusion | a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art | 21 | |
| 5742411804 | Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text |  | 22 |
| 5742420083 | Ballad | a story/ narrative in poetic form | 23 | |
| 5742425092 | Consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text |  | 24 |
| 5742433629 | Diction | the author's specific word choice | 25 | |
| 5742594061 | Enjambment | this occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line |  | 26 |
| 5742607786 | Free Verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter | 27 | |
| 5742611780 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connector words such as "like" or "as" |  | 28 |
| 5742622800 | Meter | the measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line | 29 | |
| 5742639542 | Onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like what it means |  | 30 |
| 5742643545 | Rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the _____________ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. | 31 | |
| 5742793609 | Simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as " like" or "as" |  | 32 |
| 5742809104 | Stanza | a unified group of lines of poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem. | 33 | |
| 5742817747 | Symbol | an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning |  | 34 |
| 5742828141 | Theme | the central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader (usually not one word) | 35 | |
| 5742841460 | Tone | the attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character Ex: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, or etc. |  | 36 |
| 5743331060 | Verse | a single line of poetry | 37 | |
| 7276473675 | Thesis | a statement that a writer intends to support and prove | 38 | |
| 7276485483 | Claim | a statement that, essentially, is arguable but is also used as a primary point to support or prove an argument | 39 | |
| 7276499185 | Audience | the person/ people for whom a writer writes, or a composer composes | 40 | |
| 7276506423 | Evidence | a type of literary device that is presented to persuade the readers and used with powerful arguments in texts or essays | 41 | |
| 7276524553 | Logos | a statement, sentence or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic EX: statistics | 42 | |
| 7276531710 | Ethos | credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved. | 43 | |
| 7276532665 | Pathos | a quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow. | 44 | |
| 7779537841 | Fallacy | An unreliable means of arguing that does not provide good reason for accepting the argument's conclusion. | 45 | |
| 7779555543 | Red Herring | Bringing up an irrelevant issue to distract from the central topic at hand. | 46 | |
| 7779571451 | Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc | Latin for "after this, therefore because of this." Also called the fallacy of false cause. Claiming that one thing is caused by another because it followed after the other. | 47 | |
| 7779595440 | Ad Hominem Fallacy | An attack on the opponent rather than on the opponent's argument, usually name calling or casting aspersion on the opponent's character. | 48 | |
| 7779619713 | Begging the Question | Taking for granted or treating an opinion that is open to question as if it were already proved or disproved. | 49 | |
| 7779672023 | Circular Reasoning | Trying to prove one idea with another idea that is too similar to the first idea; such logical ways move backwards in its attempt to move forward. | 50 | |
| 7779685139 | Slippery Slope | Asserting that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question with no reason given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed. | 51 | |
| 7779739160 | Argument Ad Populum | ("To the people") appealing to readers' general values , such as patriotism or love of family. EX: A desire for tougher gun control laws is just out of step with true American patriotism or sentiment. | 52 | |
| 7779930196 | Visual Rhetoric | The development of a theoretical framework describing how visual images communicate meaning, as opposed to aural, verbal, or other messages. | 53 | |
| 7779959619 | Paradox | A situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities. | 54 | |
| 7779964250 | Euphemism | The use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another. EX: Yesterday, the man went to his eternal rest. | 55 | |
| 7779978955 | Dysphemism | A derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one, such as "loony bin" for "mental hospital.". | 56 | |
| 7780021969 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 57 | |
| 7780066465 | Parallel Structure | A stylistic device, and a grammatical construction having two or more clauses, phrases or words, with similar grammatical form and length. | 58 | |
| 7780083723 | Anaphora | A repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. EX: "I'm not afraid to die...I'm not afraid to live. I'm other afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to suceed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone.I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes. " | 59 | |
| 7780125029 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 60 | |
| 7780132656 | Verbal Irony | A speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to say. | 61 | |
| 7780217491 | Figurative Language | Figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. | 62 | |
| 7780230588 | Imagery | Figurative language used in order to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that appeals to our physical senses. | 63 | |
| 7780268252 | Analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. | 64 | |
| 7780294202 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. | 65 | |
| 7780317895 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 66 | |
| 7780337186 | Kairos | A rhetorical device that means appropriate time for an action. | 67 | |
| 7780371117 | Rhetorical Context | The circumstances surrounding any writing situation and includes purpose, audience, and focus. | 68 | |
| 7780438050 | SOAPSTone | Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone | 69 | |
| 7780445374 | Speaker | The voice behind the scene. | 70 | |
| 7780471850 | Satire | A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. | 71 | |
| 7853330827 | Asyndeton | a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose. | 72 | |
| 7853356201 | Chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 73 | |
| 7853378873 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 74 | |
| 7853418508 | Deductive Reasoning | a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. This form of 'top-down' reasoning begins with premises that are generally assumed to be true and then applies them to specific cases to derive conclusions. This form of reasoning goes from GENERAL to SPECIFIC. | 75 | |
| 7963052786 | Synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 76 | |
| 7963055658 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated EX: This land belongs to the crown. | 77 | |
| 7963059383 | Colloquial Language | words or expressions used in ordinary language by common people Ex: slang | 78 | |
| 7963061743 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary Ex:you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad | 79 | |
| 7963064988 | Paralipsis | the device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject | 80 | |
| 8012015958 | Polysyndeton | Sentence style that uses many conjunctions to low the rhythm or to suggest the continuity of the experience. EX: "There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway." | 81 | |
| 8083345607 | Loose (Cumulative ) Sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. | 82 | |
| 8249509699 | Periodic Sentence | Main clause or predicate as the last part of the sentence. | 83 | |
| 8249682292 | Syllepsis | A kind of ellipsis in which one word is understood differently in relation to two or more other words which it governs, but the word does not fit grammatically or idiomatically with one member of the pair EX: "You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality." | 84 | |
| 8324273518 | Zeugma | A kind of ellipsis in which one word is understood differently in relation to two or more other words which it governs- often used as a pun EX: "She broke his car and his heart." | 85 | |
| 8324297946 | Tricolon | three parallel elements of the same length occurring in a series EX: "Be sincere, be brief, be seated." | 86 | |
| 8324315407 | Ellipsis | deliberate omission of a word or words which are readily implied by the context EX: "There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them." | 87 | |
| 8324334379 | Epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses EX: "The cars do not sell because the engineering is inferior, the quality of materials is inferior, and the workmanship is inferior. | 88 | |
| 8324357401 | Inverted Syntax | reversing the normal word order of a sentence EX: "In silent night when rest I took, / For sorrow near I did not look..." | 89 | |
| 8324374610 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked for rhetorical effect to emphasize a point, the answer being implied EX: "But how can we expect to enjoy the scenery when the scenery consists entirely of garish billboards?" | 90 | |
| 8324400438 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which a generally accepted major premise is made, a related minor premise follows, which then leads inevitably to one logical conclusion EX: All dogs are mammals. A Labrador is a dog. Therefore, a Labrador is a mammal. | 91 | |
| 8324452872 | Inductive Reasoning | a form of reasoning which works from a body of facts to the formulation of a generalization EX: Crimes are often solved trough inductive reasoning. Evidence is gathered and analyzed, and then a theory or generalization is made about who did it. | 92 | |
| 8324567270 | Exigency | an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak | 93 | |
| 8339523874 | False Analogy | Illogically drawing a comparison between two things that have no similarities EX: Letting prisoners out on early release is like absolving them of their crimes. | 94 | |
| 8359217604 | Argument Ad Hominem | Attacking a person's character rather than his/ her argument EX: You can't trust Jones's theory of electromagnetic particles cause he's a communist. | 95 | |
| 8359287687 | Non Sequiter Fallacy | An inference or conclusion that does not follow from established premises or evidence EX: Tens of thousands of Americans have seen lights in the night sky which they could not identify. The existence of life on other planets is fast becoming certainty. | 96 | |
| 8359413379 | Either/ Or Fallacy | A fallacy in argument that occurs when someone is asked to choose between two options when there are clearly other alternatives EX: If you don't support the war, then you are on the side of the terroists. | 97 | |
| 8359463622 | Sweeping Generalization | The use of a statement in an all-inclusive way without allowing for any exceptions, such as a stereotype EX: Democrats and Republicans never get along with each other, so you and Steve will not like each other since he is a Republican and you are a Democrat. | 98 | |
| 8360560237 | Straw Man Fallacy | An argument which misrepresents a position in order to make it appear weaker than it actually is, refutes this misrepresentation of the position, and then concludes that the real position has been refuted EX: Senator Jones says that we should not fund the attack submarine program. I disagree entirely. I can't understand why he wants to leave us completely defenseless like that. | 99 | |
| 8360664817 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which one jumps to a conclusion that far exceeds what the evidence supports EX: My roommate said her philosophy class was hard, and the one I'm in is hard, too. Philosophy is just impossible to understand! | 100 | |
| 8360742012 | Reductive Fallacy | A fallacy of questionable cause that occurs when it is assumed that there is a single, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient causes. Also called oversimplification. EX: The school shooters played violent video games, so that caused them to become violent. | 101 | |
| 8360863962 | False Authority | A fallacy that occurs when a person making a claim is presented as an expert who would be trusted when when his or her expertise is not in the area being discussed. EX: According to Oprah, Green is the best toothpaste for your teeth. | 102 | |
| 8360945512 | Bandwagon | 103 | ||
| 8428597965 | Foreshadowing | A warning or indication of a future event | 104 | |
| 8428610368 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human ,or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 105 | |
| 8428632119 | Logical Fallacy | An error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid | 106 | |
| 8428641668 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 107 | |
| 8428659969 | Tragic Hero | A literary character who makes a judgement error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction | 108 | |
| 8428703806 | Vengeance | Punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense | 109 | |
| 8428728631 | Unequivocal | Leaving no doubt | 110 | |
| 8428762654 | Scornful | Full of open dislike and disrespect or derision often mixed indignation | 111 | |
| 8428787085 | Susceptible | Capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation | 112 | |
| 8428808667 | Supernatural | Of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe | 113 | |
| 8428851837 | Resentment | A feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury | 114 | |
| 8462452447 | Antagonism | active hostility or opposition | 115 | |
| 8462461659 | Expertise | a special skill or knowledge that is acquired by training, study, or practice | 116 | |
| 8462469489 | Adultery | voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who isn't his/ her spouse | 117 | |
| 8462479190 | Lechery | lustfulness | 118 | |
| 8462483270 | Deposition | a testifying especially before a court | 119 | |
| 8463113709 | Affidavit | a written statement confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court. | 120 | |
| 8463129531 | Denounce | publicly declare to be wrong or evil | 121 | |
| 8463151860 | Predisposition | a liability or tendency to suffer from a particular condition, hold a particular attitude, or act in a particular way. | 122 | |
| 8463160949 | Deflect | cause (something) to change direction by interposing something | 123 | |
| 8463175251 | Hysteria | exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people | 124 | |
| 8463196518 | Contemptuous | showing the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn | 125 | |
| 8463231828 | Incredulous | unwilling or unable to believe something | 126 | |
| 8463238235 | Exasperated | irritate intensely | 127 | |
| 8463258831 | Ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation or having a double meaning | 128 | |
| 8463269562 | Adherence | attachment or commitment to a person, cause, or belief | 129 | |
| 8543334418 | Apostrophe | the act of speaking directly to an absent or imaginary person or to some abstraction | 130 | |
| 8543339494 | Archetype | an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned | 131 | |
| 8543341478 | Blank Verse | poetry usually written in unrhymed pattern | 132 | |
| 8543345365 | Conceit | fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 133 | |
| 8543348367 | Connotation | the implied | 134 | |
| 8551441609 | Dialect | A variety of speech characterized by its own particularly grammar or pronunciation or region | 135 | |
| 8692706794 | Didactic | Something which has as its primary purpose to teach or instruct. | 136 | |
| 8692716383 | Dissonance | Harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds | 137 | |
| 8692721017 | Elegy | Poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost | 138 | |
| 8693023416 | End-Stopped Line | Poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit with punctuation mark or full stop | 139 | |
| 8693038396 | Epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 140 | |
| 8693050876 | Juxtaposition | Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 141 | |
| 8693077907 | Motif | Standard theme or action or dramatic situation which recurs in a literary work. | 142 | |
| 8693161977 | Aphorism | A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner | 143 | |
| 8693169305 | Absolute | A word free from limitations or qualifications EX: best, all, unique, or perfect | 144 |
