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| 4585099417 | alter-ego | character that is used by the author to speak the author's own thought; when an author speaks directly to the audience through a character | 0 | |
| 4790346225 | antecedent | word, phrase, or clause referred y the pronoun | 1 | |
| 4790356097 | classicism | art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures | 2 | |
| 4790360527 | comic relief | when a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood somewhat | 3 | |
| 4790363236 | diction | word choice, particularly as an element of style | 4 | |
| 4790368114 | vernacular | language or dialect of a particular country, regional clan or group, of simple plain everyday speech | 5 | |
| 4790377143 | didactic | term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 6 | |
| 4790384433 | adage | folk saying with a lesson | 7 | |
| 4790385247 | allegory | story, fictional, or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts; meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth | 8 | |
| 4790389767 | aphorism | terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle; can be a memorable summation of the author's point | 9 | |
| 4790393779 | ellipsis | deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author | 10 | |
| 4790405260 | ellipse | three dots that indicate words have been left out of a quotation; can also be used to create suspense | 11 | |
| 4790409437 | euphemism | more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts; sometimes used for political correctness | 12 | |
| 4790416164 | idiom | a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally | 13 | |
| 4790418617 | metaphor | making an implied comparison, not using "like", "as", or other such words | 14 | |
| 4790422284 | metonymy | replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept | 15 | |
| 4790426046 | synecdoche | kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa | 16 | |
| 4790428636 | simile | using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things | 17 | |
| 4790432647 | synesthesia | description involving a "crossing of the senses" | 18 | |
| 4790433832 | foreshadowing | when an author gives hints about what will occur later in the story | 19 | |
| 4790435250 | genre | major category in which a literary work fits | 20 | |
| 4790436952 | gothic | writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death | 21 | |
| 4790441887 | invective | a long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language | 22 | |
| 4790445113 | irony | when the opposite of what you expect to happen does | 23 | |
| 4790447104 | verbal irony | when you say something and mean the opposite/ something different | 24 | |
| 4790449671 | dramatic irony | when the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't an would be surprised to find out | 25 | |
| 4790453231 | situational irony | found in the plot (or story line) of a book, story, or a movie; sometimes it makes you laugh because it's funny how it turned out | 26 | |
| 4790459299 | mood | atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice ( diction) | 27 | |
| 4790463745 | oxymoron | when apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox | 28 | |
| 4790472938 | colloquialism | characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | 29 | |
| 4790477219 | figurative language/ figures of speech | language used to create a special effect or feeling; most commonly alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, etc. | 30 | |
| 4790481514 | motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element especially a dominant idea or central theme | 31 | |
| 4790485389 | allusion | a reference that recalls another work, another time in history, another famous person, and so forth | 32 | |
| 4790487848 | analogy | term that signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas | 33 | |
| 4795197227 | antithetical analogy | relationship comparison of two opposing ideas/ subjects | 34 | |
| 4795208277 | denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word | 35 | |
| 4795219344 | jargon | a pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people | 36 | |
| 4795223322 | juxtaposition | making one idea more dramatic by placing it next to the opposite | 37 | |
| 4795227051 | personification | giving human attributes to non-human things | 38 | |
| 4795229067 | imagery | any time one of the five senses (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory) is evoked by what you have read | 39 | |
| 4802013566 | pacing | speed or tempo of an author's writing; point out where action/syntax begins to speed up, slow down, is interrupted, etc. | 40 | |
| 4802013567 | paradox | Self-contradictory statement, the underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutinity | 41 | |
| 4818561026 | active voice | any sentence with an active verb | 42 | |
| 4818563593 | ad hominem | attack on the person rather than the issues at hand | 43 | |
| 4818565871 | alliteration | repetition of a phonetic sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence | 44 | |
| 4818570787 | anadiplosis | the last word of the clause begins the next clause | 45 | |
| 4818582130 | apostrophe | prayer-like,this is a direct address to someone who is not present, to a deity or muse, or to some other power | 46 | |
| 4818588697 | appositive | noun phrase, an appositive modifies the noun next to it | 47 | |
| 4818592906 | argument from ignorance | argument stating that something i true because it has never been proven false | 48 | |
| 4818595895 | asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions from a series of related independent clauses | 49 | |
| 4818602887 | begging the question | argument occurs when the speaker states a claim that includes word or phrase that needs to be defined before the argument can proceed | 50 | |
| 4818610196 | complex sentence | sentence structure that is a combination of a dependent clause and an independent clause | 51 | |
| 4818614474 | compound sentence | sentence structure made up of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction | 52 | |
| 4818617101 | compound-complex sentence | combination of a compound and a complex sentence | 53 | |
| 4818618247 | connotation | associations or moods that accompany a word | 54 | |
| 4818619914 | declarative sentences | basic statement or an assertion and is the most common type of sentence | 55 | |
| 4818620676 | dependent clause | clause contains a noun and a verb but is set up with a subordinate conjunction | 56 | |
| 4818623278 | dialect | regional speech pattern; the way people talk in different parts of the world | 57 | |
| 4818624715 | ellipsis | three dots that indicate that words have being left out; can create suspense | 58 | |
| 4818624716 | epanalepsis | repeats the opening word or phrase at the end of the sentence to emphasize a statement or idea | 59 | |
| 4818626534 | epistrophe | ending of a series of lines, phrases, clause, or sentences with the same word or words | 60 | |
| 4818626535 | etymology | study of the origin of words and their historical uses | 61 | |
| 4818627628 | euphenism | to use a safer or nicer word for something that others find inappropriate or unappealing | 62 | |
| 4818628858 | false analogy | an argument using an inappropriate metaphor | 63 | |
| 4818628859 | false dilemma | suggestion is made in the argument that the problem or debate only has two solutions | 64 | |
| 4818630444 | gerund | verb ending in "ing" that serves as a noun | 65 | |
| 4818630445 | hyperbole | an exaggeration | 66 | |
| 4818633874 | imperative sentence | a command | 67 | |
| 4818634857 | independent clause | clause that can stand alone as a sentence | 68 | |
| 4818634858 | inductive | form of logical argumentation that requires the use of examples | 69 | |
| 4818636086 | infinitive | the word "to" plus a verb, usually functioning as a noun and often as a predicate in a sentence | 70 | |
| 4818640358 | loose sentence | independent clause followed by all sorts of debris, usually dependent clauses | 71 | |
| 4818641922 | malapropism | word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar | 72 | |
| 4818644234 | parallel syntax (parallelism) | pattern of language that creates a rhythm of petition often combined with some other language of repetition | 73 | |
| 4818645362 | participle | a verbal (expressing action or state of being) that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing or -ed | 74 | |
| 4818646291 | passive voice | something happens to someone | 75 | |
| 4818646332 | periodic sentence | sentence with several dependent clauses that precede the independent clause | 76 | |
| 4818650941 | poisoning the well | a person or character is introduced with language that suggests that he is not at all reliable before the listener/reader knows anything about him | 77 | |
| 4818650942 | predicate | formal term for the verb that conveys the meaning or carries the action of the sentence | 78 | |
| 4818652383 | predicate adjective | an adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject of the sentence | 79 | |
| 4818653781 | predicate nominate | a noun or pronoun that uses a linking verb to unite, describe, or rename the noun in the subject of the sentence | 80 | |
| 4818653782 | red herring | an argument that distracts the reader by raising issues irrelevant to the case | 81 | |
| 4818655033 | rhetorical question | question whose answer is assumed; designed to force the reader to respond in a predetermined manner | 82 | |
| 4818656308 | rhetorical shift | occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his or her diction, syntax, or both | 83 | |
| 4818656309 | simple sentence | independent clause; has subject and a verb | 84 | |
| 4818658203 | slippery lope | fallacy of argumentation argues that one thing inevitably leads to another | 85 | |
| 4818659188 | straw man | occurs when a person engaging in an argument defines his opponent's position when the opponent is not present and defines it a matter that is easy to attack | 86 | |
| 4818660944 | subordinate conjunction | conjunction that makes an independent clause into a dependent clause | 87 | |
| 4818660945 | synthesis | to unite or synthesize a variety of sources to achieve a common end | 88 | |
| 4818662221 | tricolon | sentence with three equally distinct and equally long parts(separated by commas rather than colons) | 89 | |
| 4818663799 | zeugma | minor device in which two or more elements in a sentence are tied together by the same verb or noun | 90 | |
| 4819209933 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines | 91 | |
| 4819209934 | ambiguity | statement with two or more meanings that may seem to exclude one another in the context | 92 | |
| 4819212017 | anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident | 93 | |
| 4819212018 | concession | Accepting at least part or all of an apposing viewpoint; helps make stronger argument | 94 | |
| 4819212091 | syllogism | Primary premise, leads to the second premise, and from those two you deduce a conclusion | 95 | |
| 4819213955 | enthymeme | Speaker gives primary premise and assumes that the audience will supply the missing knowledge in order to reach the conclusion | 96 | |
| 4819213956 | abstraction | an idea disassociated from any specific instance; expresses a quality apart from an object | 97 | |
| 4819213983 | aesthetic | a guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste; artistic sensibility | 98 | |
| 4819215501 | ambiguos | a word, phrase, or sentence whose meaning can be interpreted in more than one way | 99 | |
| 4819215502 | appositive assonance | the repetition of vowel sound but not consonant sounds | 100 | |
| 4819216989 | atmosphere | mood or pervasive feeling insinuated by a literary work | 101 | |
| 4819219229 | bildungsroman | this genre of literature denotes the story of a single individual's growth and development within the context of a defined social order | 102 | |
| 4819221998 | cacophony | harsh, discordant sounds | 103 | |
| 4819221999 | concrete | Identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter | 104 | |
| 4819225907 | elegiac | Tone; of, or relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past | 105 | |
| 4819226878 | epigraph | a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of it's divisions to suggest its theme | 106 | |
| 4819226879 | euphony | Soothing pleasant sounds | 107 | |
| 4819229939 | generalization | Idea or statement that emphasizes the general characteristics rather than the specific details of a subject | 108 | |
| 4819229940 | idiolect | Own personal language, the words they choose and any other features that characterize their speech and writing | 109 | |
| 4819229941 | idiomatic | Of or pertaining to, or confirming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; use of figures of speech | 110 | |
| 4819231201 | inflection | Change of form that words undergo to mark such distinctions as those of case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, or voice | 111 | |
| 4819234833 | picaresque novel | An episodic often autobiographical novel about a rogue or picaro ( a person of love status) wandering and living off his wits | 112 | |
| 4819236493 | portmanteau | Combination of two or more words to make a new word | 113 | |
| 4819237524 | rhetorical situation | The triangle created by the speaker/writer, the audience, and the occasion; affects what is said or written | 114 | |
| 4819238871 | schemes | Figures of speech in which word order is altered from the usual or expected | 115 | |
| 4819238872 | semantics | Study of the larger system of meaning created by words | 116 | |
| 4819240279 | stream of consciousness | Technique that records the thoughts and feeling of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence; reflects all the forces, internal and external, affecting the character's psyche at the moment | 117 | |
| 4819241454 | symbol | A person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else | 118 | |
| 4819241455 | tropes | Figures of speech in which meaning is altered from the usual or expected | 119 | |
| 4819242797 | wit | Message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | 120 | |
| 4822258791 | Didactic | Tone; instructional, designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson | 121 | |
| 4822285444 | Alter-ego | Character that is used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts | 122 | |
| 4822286629 | Autecedent | Word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 123 | |
| 4822286630 | Diction | Word choice | 124 | |
| 4822294382 | Vernacular | Language or dialect of a particular country, regional clan or group; plain everyday speech | 125 | |
| 4822294383 | Adage | A folk saying with a lesson | 126 | |
| 4822298477 | Allegory | A story fictional or nonfictional, in which character, things, and events represent qualities or concepts | 127 | |
| 4822298478 | Aphorism | Brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth | 128 | |
| 4822300160 | Euphemism | More agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 129 | |
| 4822300161 | Idiom | Common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally | 130 | |
| 4822300162 | Metaphor | An implied comparison | 131 | |
| 4822301581 | Metonymy | Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept | 132 | |
| 4822301582 | Synecdoche | When a whole is represented by naming one of it's parts, or vice versa | 133 | |
| 4822301583 | Simile | Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things | 134 | |
| 4822304734 | Synesthesia | A description involving a "crossing of the senses" | 135 | |
| 4822304735 | Invective | A long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language | 136 | |
| 4822306297 | Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen does | 137 | |
| 4822306522 | Verbal irony | When you day something and mean the opposite/something different | 138 | |
| 4822308133 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something that the character doesn't | 139 | |
| 4822308134 | Situational irony | Makes you laugh because it's funny how it turns out | 140 | |
| 4822308135 | Mood | Atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice | 141 | |
| 4822309196 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox | 142 | |
| 4822310628 | Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in succession but the second time the order changes ( ABBA ) | 143 | |
| 4822310629 | antithesis | Two opposite of contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure | 144 | |
| 4822312909 | Onomatopoeia | The use of a word which imitates or suggest the sound that the thing makes | 145 | |
| 4822312953 | Polysyndeton | When a writer creates a list of times which are all separated by conjunctions | 146 | |
| 4822314163 | Pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way | 147 | |
| 4822314233 | Romanticism | Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic view of people and the word, and an emphasis on nature | 148 | |
| 4822316170 | Satire | Work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect; targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions | 149 | |
| 4822316171 | Appositive | a word or group of words placed besides a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning | 150 | |
| 4822319847 | Clause | grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 151 | |
| 4822321055 | Periodic sentence | when the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence | 152 | |
| 4822322242 | Syntax | grammatical arrangement of words | 153 | |
| 4822322243 | Thesis | sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition | 154 | |
| 4822322316 | Tone | writer's attitude towards his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language and organization | 155 | |
| 4822323700 | Litotes | particular form of understatement generated by denying the opposite of the statement which otherwise would be used | 156 | |
| 4822324654 | Argument | piece of reasoning with one or more premises and a conclusion | 157 | |
| 4822324655 | Premises | statements offered as reasons to support a conclusion | 158 | |
| 4822325974 | Ethos | convinced by the credibility of the author | 159 | |
| 4822325975 | Pathos | persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions | 160 | |
| 4822325976 | Logos | persuading by the use of reasoning, using true premises and valid arguments | 161 | |
| 4822329507 | Concession | accepting at least part or all of an opposing view; makes it seem like you are ready to see both sides of the argument which also makes your argument better at the same time | 162 | |
| 4822329508 | Conditional statement | an if-then statement and consists of two parts, an antecedent and a consequent | 163 | |
| 4822330720 | Contradiction | a contradiction occurs when one asserts two mutually exclusive propositions, | 164 | |
| 4822330721 | Counter example | example that runs counter to (opposes) a generalization, thus falsifying it | 165 | |
| 4822332260 | Deductive argument | an argument in which it is thought that the premises provide a guarantee of the truth of the conclusion | 166 | |
| 4822332261 | Fallacy | attractive but unreliable piece of reasoning | 167 | |
| 4822334930 | Appeal to emotion | attempt to replace a logical argument with an appeal to the audience's emotions | 168 | |
| 4822333838 | Appeal to authority | because somebody famous has an idea, the idea must b right | 169 | |
| 4822333839 | Appeal to the bandwagon | popularity | 170 | |
| 4822334931 | Bad analogy | claiming that two situations are highly similar, when they arent | 171 | |
| 4822336166 | Cliche thinking | using as evidence a well-known saying, as if it is proven or as if it has no exceptions | 172 | |
| 4822337321 | Hasty generalization | a generalization based on too little or unrepresentative data | 173 | |
| 4822336167 | False cause | assuming that because two things happen, the first one caused the other one | 174 | |
| 4822340406 | Inductive argument | argument in which it is thought that the premises provide reasons supporting the probably truth of the conclusion | 175 | |
| 4822340407 | Sound argument | true, valid argument | 176 | |
| 4822339358 | Valid argument | argument is valid if the conclusion logically follows from the premises | 177 | |
| 4824308897 | prepositional phrase | begins with a preposition and contains an object; function is to supply additional detail | 178 | |
| 4824313213 | subordinate clause | contains a subject and a verb yet will not function as a complete thought | 179 | |
| 4824317599 | adverb claude | clause the modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb | 180 | |
| 4824320071 | noun clause | clause that functions as a subject, an appositive, a predicate noun, a direct object, an indirect object , or an object of a proposition | 181 | |
| 4824325089 | elliptical clause | part of a clause that may be left out when its meaning can be clearly understood from the context of the sentence | 182 | |
| 4826060363 | adjective clause | clause that modifies a noun or pronoun | 183 |
