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| 4242487194 | Rhetoric | effective writing or speaking | 0 | |
| 4242491567 | Diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words | 1 | |
| 4242495986 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences | 2 | |
| 4242499359 | Tone | a writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels | 3 | |
| 4242500643 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | 4 | |
| 4242503426 | Imagery | description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 5 | |
| 4242504309 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 6 | |
| 4242506391 | Voice | a writers distinctive use of language | 7 | |
| 4242534610 | Understatment | the opposite of exaggeration; technique for developing irony &/or humor where one writes/says less than intended | 8 | |
| 4242536514 | Simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" | 9 | |
| 4242537662 | Metaphor | a comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared | 10 | |
| 4242540375 | Extended Metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work | 11 | |
| 4242541386 | Symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else | 12 | |
| 4242549712 | Subject | the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 13 | |
| 4242552114 | Occasion | the cause or reason for writing | 14 | |
| 4242553537 | Audience | those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 15 | |
| 4242554837 | Purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 16 | |
| 4242556179 | Speaker | a term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 17 | |
| 4242560323 | Denotation | literal meaning of a word | 18 | |
| 4242562087 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 19 | |
| 4242564951 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | 20 | |
| 4242567401 | Analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 21 | |
| 4242570280 | Personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 22 | |
| 4242571837 | Bombast | high-sounding but with little meaning; used to impress | 23 | |
| 4242576675 | Pun | a humorous play on words | 24 | |
| 4242578126 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 25 | |
| 4242580572 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 26 | |
| 4242581966 | Theme | a topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work | 27 | |
| 4242584421 | Aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life | 28 | |
| 4242586019 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused | 29 | |
| 4242587797 | Circumlocution | an indirect expression; use of wordy or evasive language | 30 | |
| 4242589254 | Euphemism | an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 31 | |
| 4242591106 | Situational Irony | an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 32 | |
| 4242592383 | Verbal Irony | a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 33 | |
| 4242593252 | Satire | a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies | 34 | |
| 4242594932 | Allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion | 35 | |
| 4242598329 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love | 36 | |
| 4242599768 | Digression | act of straying from the main point | 37 | |
| 4242599769 | Ambiguity | an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way | 38 | |
| 4242602419 | Anecdote | a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event | 39 | |
| 4242604063 | Epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight | 40 | |
| 4242606777 | Non-Sequitur | latin for "it does not follow." When one statement isn't logically connected to another | 41 | |
| 4242610975 | Parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule | 42 | |
| 4242612439 | Parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | 43 | |
| 4242612440 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned | 44 | |
| 4242613229 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase | 45 | |
| 4242615722 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 46 | |
| 4242616169 | Double Entendre | a statement that has two meanings, one of which is dirty or vulgar | 47 |
