| 6595885654 | Anecdote | Personal story hsed as evidence to support an idea | 0 | |
| 6595885655 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; presented in parallel structure | 1 | |
| 6595885656 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses and absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty her love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. The affect me at familiarity or emotional intensity | 2 | |
| 6595885657 | Asyndeton | Style where conjunctions are omitted in the series | 3 | |
| 6595885658 | Polysyndeton | Opposite of asyndeton | 4 | |
| 6595885659 | Colloquial/colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing | 5 | |
| 6595885660 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of the word; the implied, suggested meaning | 6 | |
| 6595885661 | denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of the word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color | 7 | |
| 6595885662 | Didactic | Didactic works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing | 8 | |
| 6595885663 | List the four types of rhetorical modes | Exposition, argumentation, description, narration | 9 | |
| 6595885664 | Purpose of exposition | To explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, inappropriate discussion | 10 | |
| 6595885665 | Purpose of argumentation | To prove the validity of an idea, or point of view, by presenting sound reasoning, discussion, and argument that thoroughly convince a reader. For example, persuasive writing | 11 | |
| 6595885666 | Purpose of description | To re-create, invent, or visually present a person, place, event or action so that the reader can picture that being described | 12 | |
| 6595885667 | Purpose of narration | To tell a story or narrate an event or series of events | 13 |
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