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| 14594300436 | Alliteration | the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 14594308270 | Allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 14594308271 | Analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 14594309628 | Anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 14594327945 | Anecdote | a short account of an interesting incident. | 4 | |
| 14594338802 | Annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 5 | |
| 14594338803 | Antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 14594346127 | Antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 14594347418 | Antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 8 | |
| 14594351582 | Aphorism | a short, astute statement of a general truth. | 9 | |
| 14594354195 | Appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 14594359671 | Archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 14594366088 | Argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence. | 12 | |
| 14594368534 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience. | 13 | |
| 14594532393 | Assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 14 | |
| 14594540549 | Assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 14594545823 | Asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 16 | |
| 14594546968 | Attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 17 | |
| 14594549283 | Audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 14594557354 | Authority | a reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 19 | |
| 14594558309 | Bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 14594559960 | Cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 14594561396 | Claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 14594563446 | 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 | |
| 14594567184 | Colloquialism | an informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 14594569532 | Common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 14594570070 | Complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 26 | |
| 14594573787 | Concession | a reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 27 | |
| 14594575310 | Connotation | that which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning. | 28 | |
| 14594581838 | Context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 14594582968 | Coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 30 | |
| 14594587887 | Counterargument | a challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 14594589859 | Cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 32 | |
| 14594592635 | Declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement. | 33 | |
| 14594614936 | Deduction | reasoning from general to specific. | 34 | |
| 14594616722 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word. | 35 | |
| 14594618725 | Diction | word choice. | 36 | |
| 14594619674 | Documentation | bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 37 | |
| 14594622072 | Elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 38 | |
| 14594624271 | Epigram | a brief witty statement. | 39 | |
| 14594627185 | Ethos | a Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 40 | |
| 14594629952 | Figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 41 | |
| 14594635383 | Figure of speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 42 | |
| 14594639333 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 43 | |
| 14594642153 | Imagery | vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 44 | |
| 14594643642 | Imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands. | 45 | |
| 14594644269 | Induction | reasoning from specific to general. | 46 | |
| 14594645688 | Inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 47 | |
| 14594646253 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 48 | |
| 14594652413 | Juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 49 | |
| 14594654106 | Logos | a Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 50 | |
| 14594655807 | 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. | 51 | |
| 14594662042 | Metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 52 | |
| 14594667690 | Occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 53 | |
| 14594671745 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 54 | |
| 14594674776 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 55 | |
| 14594676819 | Parallelism | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 56 | |
| 14594683433 | Parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 57 | |
| 14594685638 | 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 | 58 | |
| 14594693396 | Persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 59 | |
| 14594698330 | Personification | assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 60 | |
| 14594699842 | Polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. | 61 | |
| 14594701613 | Polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 62 | |
| 14594707982 | Premise; major, minor | 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. | 63 | |
| 14594713051 | Propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 64 | |
| 14594720989 | Purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 65 | |
| 14594724128 | Refute | to discredit an argument, particularly a counter argument. | 66 | |
| 14594726923 | Rhetoric | the study of effective, persuasive language; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 67 | |
| 14594735284 | Rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. | 68 | |
| 14594740746 | Rhetorical question | a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 69 | |
| 14594747098 | Rhetorical triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience. | 70 | |
| 14594748135 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 71 | |
| 14594750549 | Scheme | a pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 72 | |
| 14594752657 | Sentence patterns | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 73 | |
| 14594753892 | Sentence variety | using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 74 | |
| 14594756353 | Simile | a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 75 | |
| 14594760769 | Simple sentence | a statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 76 | |
| 14594764078 | Source | a book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 77 | |
| 14594764458 | 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 | 78 | |
| 14594769309 | Straw man | a logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 79 | |
| 14594770703 | Style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 80 | |
| 14594774585 | Subject | in rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 81 | |
| 14594778053 | Subordinate Clause | created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 82 | |
| 14594782313 | Subordination | the dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 83 | |
| 14594787611 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 84 | |
| 14594788294 | Syntax | sentence structure. | 85 | |
| 14594790345 | Synthesize | combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 86 | |
| 14594792590 | Thesis | the central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 87 | |
| 14594807636 | Thesis statement | a statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 88 | |
| 14594811204 | Tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 89 | |
| 14594814517 | 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. | 90 | |
| 14594816335 | Trope | artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 91 | |
| 14594817428 | Understatement | lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 92 | |
| 14594818352 | 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. | 93 | |
| 14594821825 | 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. | 94 |
