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| 3181770590 | antithesis | contrast of ideas | 0 | |
| 3181774612 | caricature | a representation in which the subjects peculiarities are exagerrated | 1 | |
| 3181792501 | deductive sentence | reasoning that starts with statement and then evidence | 2 | |
| 3181796619 | inductive sentence | reasoning that starts with evidence and then statement | 3 | |
| 3181797760 | ethos | character/ establishment of reputation | 4 | |
| 3181800577 | homily | serious speech | 5 | |
| 3181810956 | invective | abusive language | 6 | |
| 3181812449 | logos | logic | 7 | |
| 3181813398 | parody | ridicule of a piece of work | 8 | |
| 3181821472 | pathos | emotional appeal | 9 | |
| 3181825397 | claim | states the argument's position | 10 | |
| 3181827420 | repitition | duplication of word or phrases | 11 | |
| 3181832669 | rhetorical shift | a change in tone with a transitional word | 12 | |
| 3181841002 | satire | work that targets vices or follies for ridicule | 13 | |
| 3181852626 | synthesis | a combination of two or more ideas to produce a complex idea | 14 | |
| 3181858275 | ad hominem | argument that appeals to emotion | 15 | |
| 3181870918 | bandwagon | doing the same thing as everybody else | 16 | |
| 3181874822 | begging the question | making a statement based on assumptions | 17 | |
| 3181882031 | cause and effect | one event is caused or affected by another event | 18 | |
| 3181888113 | false dilemma | a complex issue is reduced to only two alternatives when that is not the case | 19 | |
| 3181903869 | alliteration | the repetition of sounds | 20 | |
| 3181909685 | allusion | a reference to something commonly known | 21 | |
| 3181914512 | analogy | a comparison between two separate things | 22 | |
| 3181920906 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of something | 23 | |
| 3181924041 | aphorism | an observation that contains a general truth | 24 | |
| 3181943592 | apostrophe | speech that is directed to an absent or imaginary person | 25 | |
| 3181946544 | euphemisim | less offensive words as a substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 26 | |
| 3181958749 | figurative language | speech that does not contain literate meaning | 27 | |
| 3181981893 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 28 | |
| 3181982859 | imagery | sensory details | 29 | |
| 3181983937 | irony | using language that signifies the opposite | 30 | |
| 3181989332 | metaphor | direct comparison without the use of like and as | 31 | |
| 3182000174 | metonymy/ synecdoche | using an object that is closely identified with the term as a substitution of the term | 32 | |
| 3182008398 | onomatopoeia | sound of words | 33 | |
| 3182028765 | oxymoron | juxtaposed words | 34 | |
| 3182036145 | paradox | untrue on the surface but true nevertheless | 35 | |
| 3182038829 | personification | giving non-human objects human characteristics | 36 | |
| 3182047435 | pun | a play on words with more than one meaning | 37 | |
| 3182055395 | similie | comparison of two things, using the terms like and as | 38 | |
| 3182059631 | understatement/ litotes | presenting something as less significant than it is | 39 | |
| 3182618169 | appositive | a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it | 40 | |
| 3182624445 | clause | something that contains both a verb and subject | 41 | |
| 3182638761 | declarative sentence | makes a statement, they tell something | 42 | |
| 3182644251 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or words | 43 | |
| 3182652682 | exclamatory sentence | communicate a strong emotion or surprise | 44 | |
| 3182656544 | imperative sentence | makes commands | 45 | |
| 3182664427 | interrogative sentence | ask questions | 46 | |
| 3182669444 | parallelism | the framing of words in order to compare them | 47 | |
| 3182683332 | periodic sentence | modifying elements in the middle | 48 | |
| 3182687883 | loose sentence | modifying elements at the end | 49 | |
| 3182697435 | prose | anything that isn't poetry and drama | 50 | |
| 3182705417 | anecdote | a personal story | 51 | |
| 3182964167 | colloquial | informality in writing | 52 | |
| 3182969265 | concrete detail | specific examples | 53 | |
| 3182969266 | connotation | suggested meaning | 54 | |
| 3182976925 | didactic | instructive writing | 55 | |
| 3182978929 | denotation | dictionary definition | 56 | |
| 3182982621 | dialect | a form of language specific to one group | 57 | |
| 3182986259 | diction | word choice | 58 | |
| 3182989511 | genre | different types of writing | 59 | |
| 3182991506 | jargon | inside jokes (words or expressions) | 60 | |
| 3182998308 | juxtaposition | placing two things together in order to emphasize similarities or differences | 61 | |
| 3183011481 | pedantic | overly concerned with learning | 62 | |
| 3183013444 | theme | the central idea | 63 | |
| 3183014817 | thesis | directly express the the author's opinion | 64 | |
| 3183018525 | tone | describe the author's attitude toward their material | 65 |
