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| 14623039442 | abstract language | language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places | 0 | |
| 14623039443 | active voice | the subject of the sentence performs the action | 1 | |
| 14623039444 | ad hominem | when a writer personally attacks his or his opponents instead of their arguments | 2 | |
| 14623039445 | allegory | a story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts | 3 | |
| 14623039446 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds | 4 | |
| 14623039447 | allusion | a reference to another well know work of literature, person, or event | 5 | |
| 14623039448 | ambiguity | an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way | 6 | |
| 14623039449 | analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 7 | |
| 14623039450 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 8 | |
| 14623039451 | anecdote | a brief recounting of a relevant episode | 9 | |
| 14682088830 | annotation | notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographical data | 10 | |
| 14682094961 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 11 | |
| 14682099901 | antithesis | two opposite words, phrases, or clauses or even ideas | 12 | |
| 14682106368 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle | 13 | |
| 14682112005 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love | 14 | |
| 14682113560 | appositive | a word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning | 15 | |
| 14682130069 | argumentation | to proved the validity of an idea, or a point of view, by presenting good sounding reasoning, discussion and argument to convince the reader | 16 | |
| 14682137933 | assonance | repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 17 | |
| 14682141903 | casual relationship | a writer asserts that one thing results from another | 18 | |
| 14682144708 | clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 19 | |
| 14706147919 | colloquial | familiar type of conversation | 20 | |
| 14706149766 | colloquialism | a common type of saying | 21 | |
| 14706151539 | concession | accepting at least part or all of an opposing view | 22 | |
| 14706156387 | concrete language | language that describes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas or qualities | 23 | |
| 14706160055 | connotation | rather than the dictionary definition, the associations suggested by a word | 24 | |
| 14706165226 | consonance | repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity | 25 | |
| 14706170585 | coordination | combining sentences into one single sentence | 26 | |
| 14706173148 | deduction | moving from general statements we accept as true, to an inevitable conclusion | 27 | |
| 14706176671 | denotation | to signify or stand as a name for, the explicit meaning of a word | 28 | |
| 14706181442 | description | to recreate, invent, or visually present to a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture that being described | 29 | |
| 14806849224 | diction | word choice | 30 | |
| 14806850698 | didactic | used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson | 31 | |
| 14806856297 | emotional appeal | when a writer appeals to an audience's emotions | 32 | |
| 14806859663 | epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of theme | 33 | |
| 14806864025 | ethical appeal | a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him based on presentation of image of self through the text | 34 | |
| 14806882742 | euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 35 | |
| 14806886742 | explication | the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text | 36 | |
| 14806890759 | exposition | to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion | 37 | |
| 14806898146 | false analogy | when two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them | 38 | |
| 14806905177 | figurative language | words that are inaccurate literally but call to mind sensation or evoke reactions | 39 |
