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| 4683104188 | connotation | An indirect implication or suggestion from a word, or string of words, beyond the literal meaning. Ex:the word "discipline" has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression | 0 | |
| 4683104189 | Denotation | the minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary, disregarding any historical or emotional connotation. EX:beyond their immediate denotation, the words have a connotative power | 1 | |
| 4683104190 | Diction | the choice and use of words in writing or speech. ex: Wordsworth campaigned against exaggerated poetic diction | 2 | |
| 4683104191 | Syntax | The sentence arrangement of a language or standard word order. ex: People who text on their phone while watching a movie are very annoying. | 3 | |
| 4683104192 | Tone | The mood of a text or part of a text. EX:trust her to lower the tone of the conversation | 4 | |
| 4683104193 | Explicit | Precisely and clearly expressed, leaving nothing to implication; fully stated. ex:the speaker's intentions were not made explicit | 5 | |
| 4683104194 | Implicit | Implied, rather than expressly stated. ex:comments seen as implicit criticism of the policies | 6 | |
| 4683104195 | Infer | To derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence. | 7 | |
| 4683104196 | Parallelism | The repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect. ex | 8 | |
| 4683104197 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense. | 9 | |
| 4683104198 | Cumulative Sentence | An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea. | 10 | |
| 4683104199 | Balanced Sentence | A sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure. | 11 | |
| 4683104200 | Interrupted Sentence | A word group (a statement, question, or exclamation) that interrupts the flow of a sentence and is usually set off by commas, dashes, or parentheses. | 12 | |
| 4683104201 | Antithesis | An argument set up in opposition to a thesis. | 13 | |
| 4683104202 | Inversion | The reversal of a normal order of words. | 14 | |
| 4683104203 | Analogy | A comparison made to show such a similarity | 15 | |
| 4683104204 | Metaphor | A comparison, between two things not usually compared, that implies that one object is another one, figuratively speaking. | 16 | |
| 4683104205 | Simile | A comparison of two things not usually paired, made by using the adverbs like or as. | 17 | |
| 4683104206 | Logical Fallacy | An error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid. | 18 | |
| 4683104207 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. | 19 | |
| 4683104208 | Allusion | A casual reference to any aspect of another piece of literature, art, music, person or life in general. | 20 | |
| 4683104209 | Hyperbole | The literary device of exaggeration or overstatement. | 21 | |
| 4683104210 | Understatement | To state something less strongly than the situation would suggest. | 22 | |
| 4683104211 | Qualification | the author accepts a theory or proposition, but only under certain conditions or with certain modifications. | 23 | |
| 4683104212 | Paradox | Using contradiction in a way that oddly, and wittily, makes sense on a deeper level. | 24 | |
| 4683104213 | Epithet | The use of an adjective, or adjectival phrase, to portray a specific trait of a person or object. | 25 | |
| 4683104214 | Euphemism | Using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one. | 26 | |
| 4683104215 | Conceit | An elaborate, fanciful metaphor, especially of a strained or far-fetched nature. | 27 | |
| 4683104216 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech where an example becomes a symbol for a whole or larger classification. | 28 | |
| 4683104217 | Metonymy | Using a physical object to embody a more general idea. | 29 | |
| 4683104218 | Alliteration | The use of repeated consonants in neighboring words. | 30 | |
| 4683104219 | Onomatopoeia | The application of sounds that are comparable to the noise they represent for an artistic effect. | 31 | |
| 4683104220 | Subjective | placing excessive emphasis on one's own moods, attitudes, opinions, etc. | 32 | |
| 4683104221 | Objective | The narrator assumes the position of an observer, detached from the narrative. | 33 | |
| 4683104222 | Cliché | A word or phrase that once had originality, but has now become exhausted through overuse. | 34 | |
| 4683104223 | Satire | An attack on any idiocy or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards. | 35 | |
| 4683104224 | Parody | A text that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect. | 36 | |
| 4683104225 | Irony | Words or ideas which have an extra layer of meaning, distinctive to the literal one. | 37 | |
| 4683104226 | Archetype | An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype. | 38 | |
| 4683104227 | Antistrophe | the repetition of words in reversed order. | 39 | |
| 4683104228 | Polysyndeton | The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession. | 40 | |
| 4683104229 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions | 41 | |
| 4683104230 | Deduction | A process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented. | 42 | |
| 4683104231 | Induction | Any form of reasoning in which the conclusion, though supported by the premises, does not follow from them necessarily. | 43 | |
| 4683104232 | Anaphora | A rhetorical device where a word, or group of words, is repeated in consecutive clauses. | 44 | |
| 4683104233 | Aphorism | a short, condensed, sometimes witty saying, close in meaning to maxim or proverb. | 45 | |
| 4683104234 | Epigram | A short verse or motto appearing at the beginning of a longer poem or the title page of a novel. | 46 | |
| 4683104235 | Analysis | The process of examining something meticulously. This often involves the separation of elements (structure, form, literary devices) into different parts, to facilitate understanding of a whole text. | 47 | |
| 4683104236 | Argumentation | The process of forming reasons, justifying beliefs, and drawing conclusions with the aim of influencing the thoughts and/or actions of others. | 48 | |
| 4683104237 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 49 | |
| 4683104238 | Enthymeme | an incomplete syllogism, in which one or more premises are unexpressed as their truth is considered to be self-evident. | 50 | |
| 4683104239 | Chiasmus | In rhetioric, this refers to a structure which is otherwise parallel, yet the word order in each part is reversed. | 51 | |
| 4683104240 | Ellipsis | A rhetorical device where a word is omitted because it is implied by a previous clause. | 52 | |
| 4683104241 | Anadiplosis | From the Greek for 'doubling'. Repetition used in rhetoric where a phrase or word from the proceeding sentence is used at the beginning of the next. | 53 | |
| 4683104242 | Epanalepsis | A repetition of a word or a phrase with intervening words setting off the repetition, sometimes occurring with a phrase used both at the beginning and end of a sentence. | 54 | |
| 4683104243 | Antimetabole | In rhetoric, a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order. | 55 | |
| 4683104244 | Allegory | Something which can be read with double or two meanings: with an obvious literal meaning, as well as a figurative, 'below the surface' meaning. | 56 | |
| 4683104245 | Simple Sentence | A sentence having only one clause | 57 | |
| 4683104246 | Compound Sentence | - A sentence containing two or more coordinate independent clauses, usually joined by one or more conjunctions, but no dependent clause. | 58 | |
| 4683104247 | Complex Sentence | A sentence containing one or more dependent clauses in addition to the main clause. | 59 | |
| 4683104248 | Complex-Compound Sentence | A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 60 | |
| 4683104249 | Declarative | A sentence that is a simple statement or tells something. | 61 | |
| 4683104250 | Exclamatory | A sentence that shows strong feeling and usually ends with an exclamation point. | 62 | |
| 4683104251 | Interrogative | A sentence that asks a question | 63 | |
| 4683104252 | Imperative | Finish your AP Spanish homework. | 64 | |
| 4683104253 | Antecedent | A word or phrase to which a pronoun refers. | 65 | |
| 4683104254 | Nostalgia | a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life | 66 | |
| 4683104255 | Dichotomy | division into two parts or classifications, especially when they are sharply distinguished or opposed | 67 | |
| 4683104256 | Paradigm Shift | a radical change in underlying beliefs or theory | 68 | |
| 4683104257 | Enumerate | to mention separately or in order; name one by one | 69 |
