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| 10614069293 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 10614072930 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 10614074488 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 10614074489 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 10614074490 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event. | 4 | |
| 10614081911 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 5 | |
| 10614081912 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 10614083734 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 10614088812 | Anithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 8 | |
| 10614091464 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. | 9 | |
| 10614091465 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 10614093743 | Archaic Diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 10614105645 | Arguement | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. | 12 | |
| 10614108069 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience. | 13 | |
| 10614112583 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 14 | |
| 10614112584 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 10614115043 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 16 | |
| 10614115044 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 17 | |
| 10614116572 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 10614116573 | Authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 19 | |
| 10614118559 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 10614118560 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 10614131248 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 22 | |
| 10614140818 | Close Reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. | 23 | |
| 10614143729 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 10614144991 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 10614144992 | Complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 10614148239 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 27 | |
| 10614150658 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 28 | |
| 10614152221 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 10614152222 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 30 | |
| 10614160190 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 10614161062 | Declarative Sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 32 | |
| 10614162874 | Deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 33 | |
| 10614164359 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 34 | |
| 10614165492 | Diction | word choice | 35 | |
| 10614167343 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 36 | |
| 10614168385 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 37 | |
| 10614169260 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. | 38 | |
| 10614170468 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 39 | |
| 10614172982 | Figurate Language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 40 | |
| 10614175512 | Figure of Speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 41 | |
| 10614177324 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 42 | |
| 10614178690 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 43 | |
| 10614180286 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 44 | |
| 10614183581 | Induction | reasoning from specific to general | 45 | |
| 10614185437 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 46 | |
| 10614187196 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 47 | |
| 10614189077 | Juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 48 | |
| 10614192795 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 49 | |
| 10614195189 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 50 | |
| 10614197171 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 51 | |
| 10614198474 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 52 | |
| 10614199588 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 53 | |
| 10614201213 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 54 | |
| 10614203289 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 55 | |
| 10614204828 | Pathos | A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 56 | |
| 10614206451 | Persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 57 | |
| 10614207621 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 58 | |
| 10614208940 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 59 | |
| 10614210301 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 60 | |
| 10614211404 | Premise | Two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise. Ex: Major- all mammals are warm blooded, Minor- all horses are warm blooded. Conclusion : all horses are warm blooded | 61 | |
| 10614219747 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 62 | |
| 10614220700 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 63 | |
| 10614220701 | Refute | to prove incorrect | 64 | |
| 10614221892 | Rhetoric | effective writing or speaking | 65 | |
| 10614223104 | Rhetorical Models | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, etc. | 66 | |
| 10614228350 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 67 | |
| 10614232133 | Rhetorical Triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 68 | |
| 10614233636 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 69 | |
| 10614236772 | Sentence Patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 70 | |
| 10614238225 | Sentence Variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 71 | |
| 10614238226 | Simile | comparing two things using like or as | 72 | |
| 10614239598 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 73 | |
| 10614240989 | 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 | 74 | |
| 10614242984 | Straw Man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 75 | |
| 10614244019 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 76 | |
| 10614245066 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 77 | |
| 10614247974 | Subordinate Clause | A clause that modifies an independent clause, created by a subordinating conjunction. | 78 | |
| 10614249015 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 79 | |
| 10614252705 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 80 | |
| 10614253888 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 81 | |
| 10614254726 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 82 | |
| 10614256751 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 83 | |
| 10614258824 | Thesis Statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 84 | |
| 10614260044 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 85 | |
| 10614262066 | Topic Sentence | A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis. | 86 | |
| 10614263062 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 87 | |
| 10614263063 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 88 | |
| 10614264567 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 89 | |
| 10614265840 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence. | 90 |
