| 5731053653 | Characterization | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character | 0 | |
| 5731053654 | Ethos | the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations. | 1 | |
| 5731053655 | Pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness | 2 | |
| 5731053656 | Logos | statement, sentence or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic. | 3 | |
| 5731053657 | 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 | 4 | |
| 5731053658 | Analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | 5 | |
| 5731053659 | Appeal to authority | a common type of argument which can be fallacious | 6 | |
| 5731053660 | Paradox | a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion | 7 | |
| 5731053661 | Antecedent | a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another. | 8 | |
| 5731053662 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. | 9 | |
| 5731053663 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 10 | |
| 5731053664 | Overstatement | the action of expressing or stating something too strongly; exaggeration. | 11 | |
| 5731053665 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, e | 12 | |
| 5731053666 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 13 | |
| 5731053667 | Parallel structure | repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence | 14 | |
| 5731053668 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 15 | |
| 5731053669 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 16 | |
| 5731053670 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 17 | |
| 5731053671 | Underscore | line drawn under a word or phrase for emphasis. | 18 | |
| 5731053672 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 19 | |
| 5731053673 | Rhetorical strategy | use of words in a certain way to convey meaning or to persuade. | 20 | |
| 5731053674 | Cite/ citations | a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work | 21 | |
| 5731053675 | Digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing. | 22 |
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