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| 7148951265 | alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 7148951940 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to another event or historic event. | 1 | |
| 7148954407 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 7148956994 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 7148958200 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting event. | 4 | |
| 7148959330 | annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 5 | |
| 7148960323 | antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 7148960937 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 7148962402 | antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins". | 8 | |
| 7148968845 | aphorism | a short statement of general truth. | 9 | |
| 7148969495 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 7148971449 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 7148973064 | argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence. | 12 | |
| 7148975311 | aristotelean triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as a relationship between the speaker, subject and audience. | 13 | |
| 7148978810 | assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. an assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 14 | |
| 7148984847 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 7148986060 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 16 | |
| 7148996699 | attitude | the speaker's position of a subject that is revealed by their tone. | 17 | |
| 7148997637 | audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 7149000834 | authority | a reliable, respected source- someone with knowledge. | 19 | |
| 7149001994 | bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 7149002897 | cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from the source. | 21 | |
| 7149005315 | claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 22 | |
| 7149007932 | 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 | |
| 7149013194 | colloquial/ism | an informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 7149014543 | common ground | shared beliefs, values or positions. | 25 | |
| 7149016983 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 26 | |
| 7149019663 | concession | a reluctant acknowledgement or yielding. | 27 | |
| 7149020928 | connotation | the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes | 28 | |
| 7149025440 | context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine a meaning. | 29 | |
| 7149026571 | coordination | uses parts of a sentence to combine short independent clauses into a single sentence. | 30 | |
| 7149041163 | counterargument | a challenge to a position, an opposing argument. | 31 | |
| 7149041885 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 32 | |
| 7149043617 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement. | 33 | |
| 7149044371 | deduction | reasoning from general to specific. | 34 | |
| 7149047132 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary definition. | 35 | |
| 7149048661 | diction | word choice. | 36 | |
| 7149049074 | documentation | bibliographic information about the source used in a piece of writing. | 37 | |
| 7149050547 | elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 38 | |
| 7149051833 | epigram | a brief witty statement. | 39 | |
| 7149052353 | ethos | a greek term, used to refer to the chapter of a person. | 40 | |
| 7149053441 | figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 41 | |
| 7149055765 | figure of speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 42 | |
| 7149057384 | hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 43 | |
| 7149057831 | imagery | vivid use of language that evokes the reader's senses. | 44 | |
| 7149058747 | imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands. | 45 | |
| 7149061812 | induction | reasoning from specific to general, a way of learning. | 46 | |
| 7149067304 | inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 47 | |
| 7149068474 | irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant. | 48 | |
| 7149070050 | juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 49 | |
| 7149070603 | logos | a greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic. | 50 | |
| 7149072132 | 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. (not using like or as). | 51 | |
| 7160772092 | metonymy | The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant. | 52 | |
| 7160775574 | occasion | the cause or reason for writing. | 53 | |
| 7160776734 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. (faithfully unfaithful). | 54 | |
| 7160778555 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is really true. | 55 | |
| 7160780508 | parallelism | - the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. - the repetition of similar grammatical or synthetical patterns. | 56 | |
| 7160785716 | parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of something else, comical use. | 57 | |
| 7160787086 | pathos | a greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion. (ethos and logos). | 58 | |
| 7160790756 | persona | the speaker, or voice assumed by the author in a piece of writing. | 59 | |
| 7160793144 | personification | giving something that is inanimate, human characteristics. | 60 | |
| 7160793950 | polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding politics, religion, or philosophy. | 61 | |
| 7160796041 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. (ex. "And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had." (The Bible)). | 62 | |
| 7160800791 | 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. | 63 | |
| 7160802430 | major premise | All mammals are warm-blooded. | 64 | |
| 7160802872 | minor premise | all horses are mammals. | 65 | |
| 7160806596 | conclusion (premise) | all horses are warm-blooded. | 66 | |
| 7160808031 | propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway an opinion rather than present information. | 67 | |
| 7160810745 | purpose | one's reason for writing. | 68 | |
| 7160813428 | refute | to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 69 | |
| 7160815480 | rhetoric | the study of effective, persuasive language use; "available means of persuasion" | 70 | |
| 7160819293 | rhetorical modes | patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include (but not limited to): narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. | 71 | |
| 7160822444 | rhetorical question | a question asked more for the effect rather than for an answer | 72 | |
| 7160825215 | rhetorical triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation between the subject, speaker and audience. | 73 | |
| 7160834385 | satire | an ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 74 | |
| 7160837560 | scheme | a pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 75 | |
| 7160839447 | sentence patterns | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 76 | |
| 7160842646 | sentence variety | using a variety of sentence patterns to create the desired effect. | 77 | |
| 7160844551 | simile | a figure of speech that compares two things using "like" or "as". | 78 | |
| 7160847652 | simple sentence | an dependent clause; a statement containing a subject and predicate. | 79 | |
| 7160858949 | source | a book, article, person, or other place consulted for information. | 80 | |
| 7160867798 | speaker | a term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing. | 81 | |
| 7160874945 | straw man | a logically fallacy (a mistaken belief) that involves the creation of an easily refutable position, misrepresenting, then attacking the other's position. | 82 | |
| 7160881988 | style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 83 | |
| 7160894957 | subject | in rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 84 | |
| 7160896490 | subordinate clause | a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 85 | |
| 7160898590 | subordination | The process of linking two clauses in a sentence so that one clause is dependent on (or subordinate to) another. | 86 | |
| 7160901519 | syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by major and minor premise. | 87 | |
| 7160905943 | syntax | sentence structure | 88 | |
| 7160907021 | synthesize | combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 89 | |
| 7160909746 | thesis | the central idea to which all parts of the work refer. | 90 | |
| 7160918375 | thesis statement | a statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 91 | |
| 7160919935 | tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 92 | |
| 7160921518 | topic sentence | a sentence, usually at the beginning of the paragraph, that tells the paragraph's idea and announces the thesis. | 93 | |
| 7160925054 | trope | the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 94 | |
| 7160926129 | understatement | lack of emphasis in a statement or point | 95 | |
| 7160927496 | voice (grammar) | a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun | 96 | |
| 7160931576 | voice (rhetoric) | a distinctive quality in the style or tone of writing | 97 | |
| 7160932313 | zeugma | a construction in which a word (usually a verb) modifies (often in a different way) two or more words in a sentence. example: "She broke his car and his heart." | 98 |
