2956295481 | diction | word choice | 0 | |
2956297295 | didactic | a term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson | 1 | |
2956302412 | ellipsis | . . . (the cutting out of unneeded parts) | 2 | |
2956307229 | induction | the process of reasoning from premises that constitute good (opposite of deduction) | 3 | |
2956313579 | inference/infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion from information presented | 4 | |
2956317241 | invective | an emotionally violent verbal denunciation or attack (swearing) | 5 | |
2956324714 | imperative sentence | issuing a command (kick the ball now!) | 6 | |
2956327761 | juxtaposition | placing things side by side for purpose of comparison | 7 | |
2956330416 | metaphor | a figure os speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things | 8 | |
2956335734 | passive voice | the subject of the sentence receives the action | 9 | |
2956339022 | persona | the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story | 10 | |
2956342388 | personification | a type of figurative language which attributes human qualities to non human things | 11 | |
2956349196 | predicate adjective | adjective follows linking verb, describes first word | 12 | |
2956353651 | predicate nominative | noun follows linking verb, renames the first word | 13 | |
2956357685 | refutation | when writer musters relevant opposing arguments | 14 | |
3014154671 | abstract language | language that describes ideas and qualities rather then people and things | 15 | |
3014162506 | active voice | the subject of the sentence performes that action (jeff kicked the ball) | 16 | |
3014166933 | ad hominem | "against the man" when writer acts person rather then their work | 17 | |
3014171673 | allegory | a story in which characters, things, and events that represent qualities or concepts | 18 | |
3014186711 | alliteration | the rep. of initial identical consonant sounds | 19 | |
3014191655 | allusion | reference to something with which the readers is supposed to be familiar with (allude to) | 20 | |
3014198967 | ambiguity | an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way | 21 | |
3014205154 | analogy | a comparison to a directly parallel case | 22 | |
3014211359 | anaphora | rep. of a word, phase, or clause- debilrate | 23 | |
3014216961 | anecdote | a brief recounting of a relevant episode (short personal story) | 24 | |
3014223282 | concrete language | language that describes specific observable things, people or places rather then ideas of qualities | 25 | |
3014235442 | connotation | implied meaning rather then dictionary meaning | 26 | |
3014244654 | consonance | rep. of constant sound | 27 | |
3014246811 | deduction | 2 moving from general statements we accept as true | 28 | |
3014253331 | denotation | to signify or stand as a name for/ explicit meaning of a word | 29 |
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