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| 9048178598 | Qualify | Make less harsh or strict./Change it's original farm to a more general and understandable form All -> Many, most, some, numerous, countless, a majority | 0 | |
| 9048178599 | Rebuttal | A refutation or contradiction. |  | 1 |
| 9048188291 | Refute | Prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove |  | 2 |
| 9048188292 | Rhetorical | The art of an effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use if figures if speech and other compositional techniques |  | 3 |
| 9048197030 | Strategy | A plan of action designed to achieve a major or overall aim | 4 | |
| 9048197031 | Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock |  | 5 |
| 9048200349 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues |  | 6 |
| 9048200350 | Solecism | A grammatical mistake in speech or writing |  | 7 |
| 9048202574 | Stance | The attitude of a person or organization toward something; a stand point. | 8 | |
| 9048204846 | Style | A way of using language./the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. Example: A trip to Switzerland is an excellent experience that you will never forget, offering beautiful nature, fun, and sun. Book your vacation trip today. (Persuasive) | 9 | |
| 9048206689 | Symbol | A sign/thing that represents something | 10 | |
| 9048206688 | Subordinate Clause | A subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentence because it does not provide a complete thought. Example: After Amy sneezed all over the tuna salad |  | 11 |
| 9048209470 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. Example: Incorrect - While watching a movie, people who text on their phone are very annoying. Correct - People who text on their phone while watching a movie are very annoying. |  | 12 |
| 9048209471 | Tone | Describes the authors attitude toward their material, the audience, or both. |  | 13 |
| 9048212369 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact. An understatement presents something as less significant than it is. Example: You win 10 million dollars in a lottery. When you tell a news reporter "I am delighted," you are making an understatement. |  | 14 |
| 9048212370 | Wit | Amazing language that surprises and delights. Can be humorous | 15 | |
| 9048215655 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elects symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning Example: Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is an allegory that uses animals on a farm to describe the overthrow of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and the Communist Revolution of Russia before WW I. The actions of the animals on the farm are used to expose the greed and corruption of the revolution. It also describes how powerful people can change the ideology of a society. One of the cardinal rules on the farm is this: | 16 | |
| 9048219224 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds especially initial consonants in two or more neighboring words |  | 17 |
| 9048219225 | Anticlimax | A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events. |  | 18 |
| 9048222197 | Assertion | A confidence and forceful statement of fact or belief |  | 19 |
| 9048226693 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. |  | 20 |
| 9048226694 | Climax | The most, intense, surprising, or important point of something |  | 21 |
| 9048229598 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects Example: "Oh stay! three lives in one flea spare Where we almost, yea more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage-bed and marriage-temple is..." In the above lines, the poet tells his darling that she has no reason to deny him sexually, as the flea has sucked blood from both of them, and their blood has mingled in its gut, so the flea has become their "marriage bed," though they are not married yet. | 22 | |
| 9048229599 | Counterexample | An example that opposes or contradicts an idea or theory |  | 23 |
| 9048233040 | Cynicism | An inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self - interest; skepticism or an attitude of suspicion where you believe the future is bleak and that people are acting only out of self interest. An example of cynicism is when you always think the worst and have a hard time seeing the good in anyone. |  | 24 |
