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| 7535332767 | Classification\Division | Two methods of organizing and explaining information. | 0 | |
| 7292499236 | Rhetoric | The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively. | 1 | |
| 7292625985 | Rhetoric Analysis | The study of texts to determine how the author shapes the content to achieve a purpose with a given analysis. | 2 | |
| 7292635555 | Speaker | The communicator who produced the work. | 3 | |
| 7292641425 | Occasion | The time, place and\or current event that shaped the work. | 4 | |
| 7292646124 | Audience | The group of readers towards whom the work is directed. | 5 | |
| 7292649372 | Purpose | The reason why the work was created. | 6 | |
| 7292651740 | Subject | The general topic, content and ideas contained in the text. | 7 | |
| 7292657690 | Tone | The speaker's attitude. | 8 | |
| 7292664594 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 9 | |
| 7292669879 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 10 | |
| 7292677203 | Inform | Give facts or information. | 11 | |
| 7292678754 | Explain | Make an idea, situation, or problem clear. | 12 | |
| 7292686861 | Detail | An individual fact or item. | 13 | |
| 7292690476 | Topic | A matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation; a subject. | 14 | |
| 7292698755 | Persuade | Cause someone to do something through reasoning or argument. | 15 | |
| 7292705355 | Analyze | To examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of. | 16 | |
| 7292720651 | Effectively | In such a manner as to achieve a desired result. | 17 | |
| 7292740122 | Primary Audience | The particular individual or group the writer is addressing. | 18 | |
| 7292743218 | Secondary Audience | The individual or group other than the intended audience who will also read the piece. | 19 | |
| 7299990319 | Abstruse | Difficult to understand; obscure. | 20 | |
| 7299992303 | Acerbic | Sharp and forthright; sardonic. | 21 | |
| 7300000393 | Effusive | Expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner. | 22 | |
| 7300004863 | Pragmatic | Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. | 23 | |
| 7323304773 | Connotation | The emotional meaning of the word. | 24 | |
| 7323312108 | Formal | Literary; educated. | 25 | |
| 7323319635 | Informal | Conversational. | 26 | |
| 7323324189 | Colloquial | Familiar | 27 | |
| 7323324190 | Slang | Socially familiar. | 28 | |
| 7323329472 | Jargon | Language used by a group or progression. | 29 | |
| 7323332833 | Concrete | Specific. | 30 | |
| 7323334683 | Abstract | General | 31 | |
| 7323338517 | Literal | Actual; not exaggerated. | 32 | |
| 7323344110 | Figurative | In comparison; not literal. | 33 | |
| 7323351716 | Euphonious | Pleasant sounding. | 34 | |
| 7323354110 | Cacophonous | Harsh sounding. | 35 | |
| 7323356539 | Monosyllabic | One syllable only. | 36 | |
| 7323358606 | Polysyllabic | Multiple syllables. | 37 | |
| 7333029311 | Cliche | A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. | 38 | |
| 7333039870 | Idiom | A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. | 39 | |
| 7333046363 | Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. | 40 | |
| 7333053169 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 41 | |
| 7333059817 | Analogy | A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification: | 42 | |
| 7333074214 | Apostrophe | A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 43 | |
| 7333089416 | Personification | A person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing. | 44 | |
| 7333106733 | Understatement | The presentation of something as being smaller or less important than it actually is. | 45 | |
| 7333120015 | Euphemism | A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 46 | |
| 7333129371 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 47 | |
| 7333139914 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. | 48 | |
| 7333148347 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. | 49 | |
| 7333161740 | Metonymy | The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant.. | 50 | |
| 7333170350 | Adjunct | A thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part. | 51 | |
| 7333181563 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. | 52 | |
| 7333189487 | Antithesis | A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. | 53 | |
| 7333193955 | Litotes | A figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions. | 54 | |
| 7399005384 | Annotate | Add notes to (a text or diagram) giving explanation or comment. | 55 | |
| 7399013109 | Pace | A stylistic device, which shows how fast a story unfolds. | 56 | |
| 7399017451 | Emphasis | The repetition of key words and phrases or the careful arrangement of words to give them special weight and prominence. | 57 | |
| 7399024181 | Clause | A group of words with a subject and a verb. | 58 | |
| 7399028657 | Independent Clause | Has at least one subject and at least one verb and can stand on its own. | 59 | |
| 7399030727 | Dependent Clause | Has the same elements but cannot stand on its own. | 60 | |
| 7399219488 | Juxtaposition | The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 61 | |
| 7399816022 | Parallelism | The state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way. | 62 | |
| 7405921521 | Repetition | The action of repeating something that has already been said or written. | 63 | |
| 7405925138 | Balanced Sentence | A sentence that employs parallel structures of approximately the same length and importance. | 64 | |
| 7405928646 | Zeugma | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses. | 65 | |
| 7405931992 | Syllepsis | A figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses | 66 | |
| 7405935677 | Asyndeton | The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 67 | |
| 7405938580 | Epistrophe | The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 68 | |
| 7405941536 | Polysyndeton | A literary technique in which conjunction are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed. | 69 | |
| 7405944795 | Anastrophe | The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. | 70 | |
| 7405949234 | Long, Involved Sentence | Sentence with less than or approx. 30 words | 71 | |
| 7405955298 | Rhetorical Fragment | A sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect. | 72 | |
| 7405957743 | Loose Sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. | 73 | |
| 7405960328 | Cumulative Sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. | 74 | |
| 7405964295 | Telegraphic Sentence | A concise sentence typically containing five words or less. | 75 | |
| 7405968844 | Chiasmus | A rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | 76 | |
| 7405981132 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that has the main clause or predicate at the end. | 77 | |
| 7405988742 | Interrupting Sentence | An phrase or sentence that interrupts the flow of a sentence and is usually set off by commas, dashes, or parentheses. | 78 | |
| 7405994603 | Inversion | Also known as anastrophe, is a literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter. | 79 | |
| 7405998779 | Anaphora | The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition | 80 | |
| 7406002369 | Rhetorical Question | A question that you ask without expecting an answer. | 81 | |
| 7406006282 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 82 | |
| 7412584991 | Mood | A literary element that evokes certain feelings or in readers through words and descriptions. | 83 | |
| 7430224926 | Subjective | A point of view based on one's opinions, perspectives, beliefs, discoveries, desires, and feelings. It has no concern with right or wrong, other than the person's opinion of what is right and wrong. | 84 | |
| 7430229698 | Objective | A point of view that is not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased. | 85 | |
| 7456080370 | Cause and Effect | A relationship between events or things, where one is the result of the other or others. This is a combination of action and reaction. | 86 | |
| 7456089971 | General to Specific | From considering or including the main features or elements of something, and disregarding exceptions to being clearly defined or identified. | 87 | |
| 7456118961 | Chronological Order | Arranged in the order it happened in. | 88 | |
| 7456128479 | Problem-Solution | A method for analyzing and writing about a topic by identifying a problem and proposing one or more solutions. | 89 | |
| 7456136741 | Comparison | A rhetorical or literary device in which a writer compares or contrasts two people, places, things, or ideas. | 90 | |
| 7456142018 | Spatial | Defined as something related to space. | 91 | |
| 7456147421 | Order of Importance | Ideas or steps prioritized by the writer or speaker according to a hierarchy of value. | 92 | |
| 7456152607 | Sequential | Following a logical order, sometimes numerical or alphabetical. | 93 | |
| 7456173870 | Advantages and Disadvantages | The pros and cons of a certain situtation or event. | 94 | |
| 7518192585 | Fallacy | A mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument. | 95 | |
| 7535242617 | Argumentation | The action or process of reasoning systematically in support of an idea, action, or theory. | 96 | |
| 7535258100 | Compare and Contrast | Seeing the similarity and seeing the difference. | 97 | |
| 7535268194 | Persuasion | A literary technique that writers use to present their ideas through reasons and logic to influence the audience. | 98 | |
| 7535274144 | Process Analysis | A method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something. | 99 | |
| 7535283026 | Exemplification | Using specific, vivid examples for the purpose of adding more information to explain, persuade, define, or illustrate a general idea. | 100 | |
| 7535294181 | Exposition | A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 101 | |
| 7535300979 | Cause and Effect | Noting a relationship between actions or events, that one or more are the result of the other or others. | 102 | |
| 7535320326 | Narration | The action or process of narrating a story. | 103 | |
| 7535336141 | Classification/Division | Two methods of organizing and explaining information. | 104 | |
| 7535344265 | Denotation\Definition | A statement of the exact meaning of a word, especially in a dictionary. | 105 | |
| 7535350116 | Description | A spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event. | 106 | |
| 7587138864 | Dysphemism | An offensive or detrimental phrase deliberately used in place of a nicer one. | 107 | |
| 7587145738 | Expedito | An instantly recognisable figure of speech in which you list a number of alternatives, and then proceed to eliminate all but one of them. | 108 | |
| 7587152207 | Hypocatastasis | When you say that something is like something else ("as busy as a bee"), that's a simile. When you say that something actually is something else ("a heart of stone") that's a metaphor. But when you just go all out and label something as something that it actually isn't ("You chicken!"), that's a | 109 | |
| 7587163983 | Pleonasm | Using more words than are necessary in order to communicate and make your point effectively. | 110 | |
| 7587169799 | Adynaton | A particular form of hyperbole in which an exaggeration is taken to a ridiculous and literally impossible extreme, such as 'when pigs fly.' | 111 | |
| 7587173130 | Anadiplosis | A rhetorical device in which a repeated word or phrase is used both at the end of one sentence or clause and at the beginning of the next. As with practically all rhetorical devices, William Shakespeare liked using it ("She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the king"), but you can thank George Lucas for what is now probably the best-known example: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." | 112 | |
| 7587189146 | Antiprosopopoeia | A figure of speech in which a person is compared to an inanimate object. Examples are "a doormat", "a tank", "a firecracker", "a mattress", ect. | 113 | |
| 7587215759 | Dialogismus | When the speaker ends up talking not as themselves just for rhetorical effect, such as "I bet that guy's thinking, 'what am I doing here?'" | 114 | |
| 7587228568 | Sententia | quoting a maxim or wise saying to apply a general truth to the situation, thereby offering a single statement of general wisdom. Example: Perhaps we should all remember what Stephen King once said, "The road to hell is paved with adverbs." | 115 | |
| 7587233793 | Epizeuxis | the immediate repetition of words for emphasis. Example: The answer to that question is no, no, no, a thousand times no. | 116 | |
| 7587237184 | Aporia | expressing doubt about an idea, conclusion, or position. | 117 | |
| 7729363445 | Synthesis | To combine two or more elements to form a new whole. | 118 | |
| 7984188082 | Apotheosis | The highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax. | 119 | |
| 8129227962 | Meiosis | A euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is. | 120 | |
| 8129229087 | Auxesis | In rhetoric, it refers to varying forms of increase: hyperbole (overstatement): intentionally overstating a point, its importance, or its significance. climax (ascending series): a series of clauses of increasing force. | 121 |
