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| 4815937992 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of conservative words or syllables | 0 | |
| 4815937993 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historical event | 1 | |
| 4815937994 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 4815937995 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 4815937996 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event ( a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.) | 4 | |
| 4815937997 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 4815937998 | Antecedents | The noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 4815937999 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contract | 7 | |
| 4815938000 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 4815938001 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth | 9 | |
| 4815938002 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 10 | |
| 4815938003 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antique language | 11 | |
| 4815938004 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 4815938005 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetoric situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 4815938006 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 14 | |
| 4815938007 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 4815938008 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 16 | |
| 4815938009 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 4815938010 | Audience | One's listener or readership, those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 4815938011 | Authority | A reliable respected source someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 4861128765 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 20 | |
| 4861128766 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 21 | |
| 4861128767 | Close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary and other literary and structural elements of the text | 22 | |
| 4861128768 | Colloquial / ism | An informal or conversational use of language | 23 | |
| 4861128769 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions | 24 | |
| 4861128770 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 25 | |
| 4861128771 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding | 26 | |
| 4861128772 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the words meaning. ... "the word "discipline" has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression" | 27 | |
| 4861172533 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 28 | |
| 4861172534 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as "and" or "but" | 29 | |
| 4861198032 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 30 | |
| 4861198033 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement | 31 | |
| 4861240531 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific | 32 | |
| 4861240532 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word ;it's dictionary definition | 33 | |
| 4861240533 | Diction | Word Choice | 34 | |
| 4861240534 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 35 | |
| 4861867101 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 36 |
