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| 4725123502 | Alliteration | Repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase | 0 | |
| 4725125059 | Anaphora | Repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence | 1 | |
| 4725125995 | Anecdote | A short entertaining account of some happening personal or biographical | 2 | |
| 4725128663 | Antithesis | is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 3 | |
| 4725129963 | Archaism | Old style of language (imitation of) | 4 | |
| 4725131427 | Audience | A group assembled to hear and see a speaker | 5 | |
| 4725131903 | Colloquial | Used in informal conversation not formal or literary | 6 | |
| 4725133040 | Dialect | An individual's characteristics of speech | 7 | |
| 4725134106 | Diction | Expressing in words, choice of words (wording) | 8 | |
| 4725135308 | Ethos | (Ethics) convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader | 9 | |
| 4725136690 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 10 | |
| 4725137960 | Imagery | Visually description figurative language | 11 | |
| 4725139586 | Irony | Signifies the opposite (sarcasm) | 12 | |
| 4725140411 | Logos | (Logic) used to convince by employing reason or logic | 13 | |
| 4725141226 | Metaphor | Figure of speech a word or a phrase is applied to a object or action (not literal) | 14 | |
| 4725142713 | Mood | Evokes certain feelings to the reader | 15 | |
| 4725143014 | Onomatopoeia | Creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described (word that imitates the natural sound of a thing) | 16 | |
| 4725145019 | Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (ex- cruel kindness or living death) combination with an adjective proceeded by a noun with the opposite meaning | 17 | |
| 4725150069 | Paradox | a statement that contradicts itself and still seems somehow true | 18 | |
| 4725150430 | Parallelism | Parts of the sentence are grammatically the same or similar in construction sound or meaning | 19 | |
| 4725151233 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response | 20 | |
| 4725152727 | Personae | Aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others | 21 | |
| 4725154696 | Personification | Figure of speech a thing an idea or an animal is given human attributes | 22 | |
| 4725155386 | Rhetoric | To convince influence or please an audience | 23 | |
| 4725156670 | Rhetorical question | Question that you ask without expecting a response | 24 | |
| 4725157318 | Sarcasm | Use of irony to mock | 25 | |
| 4725157780 | Satire | Technique to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual | 26 | |
| 4725158844 | Slang | Words that are not apart of standard vocab | 27 | |
| 4725159810 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole vice versa | 28 | |
| 4725160827 | Syntax | Determines how the chosen words are used to form a sentence | 29 | |
| 4725161677 | Synthesis | Combining a number of different parts or ideas to come up with a new idea or theory | 30 | |
| 4725164707 | Thesis | A proposal or suggestions that is maintained by an argument | 31 | |
| 4725165894 | Tone | Attitude of a writer towards a subject or audience | 32 | |
| 4725166371 | Voice | Individual writing style of the author | 33 | |
| 4725166806 | Zeugma | Literary term for using one word to modify two other words in two different ways (when you use one word you link it to two different thoughts) (she broke his car and his heart) | 34 |
