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| 9913180365 | syllogism | major premise followed by minor premise leading to conclusion | 0 | |
| 9913180366 | semantic | studies meanings of words | 1 | |
| 9913180367 | rhetorical modes | expository (explain), argumentation (prove validity of idea), description, narration | 2 | |
| 9913180368 | prose | fiction or nonfiction all forms | 3 | |
| 9913180369 | pedantic | scholarly tone | 4 | |
| 9913180370 | anaphora | type of parallelism where beginning of successive lines are repeated | 5 | |
| 9913180371 | Parallelism | Parallel structure | 6 | |
| 9913180372 | paradox | self contradictory statement | 7 | |
| 9913180373 | Metonymy | Name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | 8 | |
| 9913180374 | litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 9 | |
| 9913180375 | invective | abusive language | 10 | |
| 9913180376 | homily | sermon; speech, lecture, or talk involving moral or spiritual advice | 11 | |
| 9913180377 | generic conventions | traditions of each genre | 12 | |
| 9913180378 | euphemism | more pleasant way of saying something | 13 | |
| 9913180379 | didactic | teaching | 14 | |
| 9913180380 | conciet | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 15 | |
| 9913180381 | caricature | a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | 16 | |
| 9913180382 | atmosphere | emotional node created by literary work | 17 | |
| 9913180383 | apostrophe | figure of speech addressing absent/imaginary person of personified abstraction | 18 | |
| 9913180384 | aphorism | Statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 19 | |
| 9913180385 | antithesis | contrast of ideas | 20 | |
| 9913180386 | antecedent | word or phrase referred to by projoun | 21 | |
| 9913180387 | Ambiguity | Multiple meanings | 22 | |
| 9913180388 | allegory | using characters or story elements to representing abstraction in addition to literal meaning | 23 | |
| 9913180389 | isocolon | similar in structure and length (syllables) | 24 | |
| 9913180390 | anastrophe | inversion of natural word order | 25 | |
| 9913180391 | parenthesis | insertion of verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal flow of sentence | 26 | |
| 9913180392 | apposition | side by side elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of first | 27 | |
| 9913180393 | ellipsis | deliberate omission of words | 28 | |
| 9913180394 | asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions between series of clauses | 29 | |
| 9913180395 | Polysyndeton | deliberate use of many conjunctions | 30 | |
| 9913180396 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 31 | |
| 9913180397 | assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonants | 32 | |
| 9913180398 | Epistrophe | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 33 | |
| 9913180399 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 34 | |
| 9913180400 | chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structure without repetition | 35 | |
| 9913180401 | synecdoche | part stands for whole | 36 | |
| 9913180402 | Antanaclasis | Repetition of a word in two different senses | 37 | |
| 9913180403 | syllepsis | use of a word with two others, with each of which it is understood differently | 38 |
