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| 5076090405 | Narration | The act, process, or an instance of narrating. | 0 | |
| 5076098073 | Description | The act, process, or technique of describing. | 1 | |
| 5076103982 | Argument | A discussion in which the parties involved, expresses disagreement with one another. | 2 | |
| 5076109855 | Exposition | A setting forth of meaning or intent. The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced is called the exposition. | 3 | |
| 5076128626 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words. | 4 | |
| 5076131422 | Qualify | To describe by specifying the characteristics or qualities of; characterize. | 5 | |
| 5076174685 | Onomatopoeia | The formation or use of words that initiate the sounds associated with the object/action. | 6 | |
| 5076187255 | Antithesis | Direct contrast; opposition. | 7 | |
| 5076192727 | Personification | Giving an inanimate object a human characteristic. | 8 | |
| 5076207267 | Paradox | A statement which contradicts itself but is in fact true. | 9 | |
| 5076210487 | Analogy | Similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar. | 10 | |
| 5076216225 | Paralellism | The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases. Example: 1. Like father, like son. 2. Whether in class, at work or at home, Shasta was always busy. | 11 | |
| 5076240106 | Parallel Structure | Using the same pattern of words to show that 2 or more ideas have the same level of importance. Example: 1. Joe likes singing, walking and diving. This is correct and uses parallel structure. An incorrect version of this sentence would read: Joe likes singing, walking and to dive. | 12 | |
| 5076274891 | Allegory | Representation of abstract ideas by characters, figures, or events in dramatic or pictoral form. | 13 | |
| 5076286115 | Apostrophe | Referencing /talking to something that can't speak. | 14 | |
| 5076289649 | Subordinate/dependent clause | A clause that cannot stand alone as a full sentence and functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence. | 15 | |
| 5076306158 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. Example: 1. All love is wonder. 2. She is wonderful. | 16 | |
| 5076333350 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated with. | 17 | |
| 5076338930 | Appeals to Authority | By using an authority, the argument is relying upon testimony, not facts. A testimony is not an argument, and it is not a fact. | 18 |
