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| 9562070894 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 0 | |
| 9562070895 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 1 | |
| 9562070896 | Abstract | Terms that refer to ideas or concepts; they have no physical referents. | 2 | |
| 9562070897 | Concrete | Terms referring to objects or events that are available to the senses | 3 | |
| 9562070898 | Formal Diction | Language appropriate for more formal occasional often more abstract and more figurative. | 4 | |
| 9562070899 | informal diction | Language grammatically correct, but conversational | 5 | |
| 9562070900 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 6 | |
| 9562070901 | Dialect | nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features. | 7 | |
| 9562070902 | Slang | Refers to a group of recently coined words | 8 | |
| 9562070903 | Jargon | Consists of words and expressions characteristic of a particular trade, profession or pursuit. | 9 | |
| 9562070904 | Cliché | Figurative language used so often it has lost its freshness and clarity. | 10 | |
| 9562070905 | Vulgar | Language deficient in taste and refinement; coarse, base. | 11 | |
| 9562070906 | Simile | A figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it to something else, using the words like, as, or as though to do so. | 12 | |
| 9562070907 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares or equates two things without using like or as. | 13 | |
| 9562070908 | Analogy | A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 14 | |
| 9562070909 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that continues over several line or throughout an entire literary work. | 15 | |
| 9562070910 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point. | 16 | |
| 9562070911 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, good, and so on, than it actually is, often for sarcastic or comical effect | 17 | |
| 9562070912 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. | 18 | |
| 9562070913 | 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. | 19 | |
| 9562070914 | Symbol | A setting, object, or event in a story that carries more than literal meaning and therefore represents something significant to understanding the meaning of a work of literature. | 20 | |
| 9562070915 | Synecdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 21 | |
| 9562070916 | Pun | A play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings | 22 | |
| 9562070917 | Cadence | It is the term used to signal the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece. | 23 | |
| 9562070918 | Alliteration | This is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound and occur close together in a series. | 24 | |
| 9562070919 | Assonance | takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds. | 25 | |
| 9562070920 | Consonance | refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. | 26 | |
| 9562070921 | Euphony | The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create. | 27 | |
| 9562070922 | Cacophony | In literature, the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results. | 28 | |
| 9562070923 | Onomatopoeia | Use of words that refer to sound and whose pronunciations mimic those sounds. | 29 | |
| 9562070924 | SOAPS | a mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker. | 30 | |
| 9562070925 | Ethos | Speakers use this to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic | 31 | |
| 9562070926 | Pathos | Speakers use this to emotionally motivate their audience | 32 | |
| 9562070927 | Logos | Speakers use this by offering clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up. | 33 | |
| 9562070928 | Deduction | form of deductive reasoning that uses a major premise and a minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion. | 34 | |
| 9562070929 | Induction | logical process wherein you reason from particulars to universals, using specific cases in order to draw a conclusion, which is also called a generalization. | 35 | |
| 9562070930 | Irony | A figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else, or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected, creating a noticeable incongruity. | 36 | |
| 9562070931 | Sarcasm | The use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 37 | |
| 9562070932 | nostalgia | A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy associations. | 38 | |
| 9562070933 | Humor | The quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech | 39 | |
| 9562070934 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 40 | |
| 9562070935 | Satire | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. | 41 | |
| 9562070936 | Paradox | A statement or situation that is seemingly contradictory on the surface, but delivers an ironic truth. | 42 | |
| 9562070937 | Oxymoron | A paradoxical figure of speech made up of two seemingly contradictory words. | 43 | |
| 9562070938 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences. | 44 | |
| 9562070939 | Anithesis | Literally meaning "opposite", this is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 45 | |
| 9562070940 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 46 | |
| 9562070941 | Repetition | A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer. | 47 | |
| 9562070942 | Anaphora | In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. | 48 | |
| 9562070943 | rhetorical question | A question asked for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected | 49 | |
| 9562070944 | Anecdote | A short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh. | 50 | |
| 9562070945 | Hypothetical | A fictional situation or proposition used to explain a complicated subject. | 51 | |
| 9562070946 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural literary or political significance. | 52 | |
| 9562070947 | Allegory | A figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events. | 53 | |
| 9562070948 | Synecdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 54 | |
| 9562070949 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meanings. | 55 | |
| 9562070950 | declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 56 | |
| 9562070951 | imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 57 | |
| 9562070952 | Interrogative Sentence | a sentence that asks a question | 58 | |
| 9562070953 | exclamatory sentence | a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark | 59 | |
| 9562070954 | simple sentence | one independent clause and no dependent clause; may contain compound subject, compound verb, and one or more phrases | 60 | |
| 9562070955 | Compound sentence | contains two or more independent clauses and no dependent clauses; independent clauses may be joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction | 61 | |
| 9562070956 | Complex sentence | contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses: | 62 | |
| 9562070957 | compound-complex sentence | contains two independent clauses and at lease one dependent clauses | 63 | |
| 9562070958 | periodic sentence | A sentence in which the main idea (subject and verb) comes at the end of the sentence is not grammatically complete until the end | 64 | |
| 9562070959 | Cumulative sentence | sentence that begins with the main idea (an independent clause) that is followed by phrases and clauses that elaborate the main idea. | 65 | |
| 9562070960 | Inversion | when sentence elements are placed out of their normal order. | 66 | |
| 9562070961 | ad hominem | literary term that involves commenting on or against an opponent, to undermine him instead of his arguments. | 67 | |
| 9562070962 | Appeal to False Authority | Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not an authority on facts relevant to the argument | 68 | |
| 9562070963 | Bandwagon | persuasive technique and a type of propaganda through which a writer persuades his readers, so that majority could agree with the argument of the writer, suggesting that since majority agrees, the reader should too | 69 | |
| 9562070964 | Begging the question | Any form of argument where the conclusion is assumed in one of the premises | 70 | |
| 9562070965 | Circular Reasoning | A type of reasoning in which the proposition is supported by the premise, which is supported by the proposition, creating a circle in reasoning where no useful information is being shared. | 71 | |
| 9562070966 | Either/ or | When only two choices are presented yet more exist, or a spectrum of possible choices exists between two extremes | 72 | |
| 9562070967 | Equivocation | Using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument misleading. | 73 | |
| 9562070968 | Faulty analogy | Comparing one thing to another that is really not related, in order to make one thing look more or less desirable than it really is. | 74 | |
| 9562070969 | Hasty Generalization | Drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with typical or situations. | 75 | |
| 9562070970 | Post hoc ergo propter hoc | This fallacy is based on the mistaken notion that simply because one thing happens after another, the first event as the cause of the second event. | 76 | |
| 9562070971 | Red Herring | A kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue. | 77 | |
| 9562070972 | Slippery slope | When a relatively insignificant first event is suggested to lead to a more significant event, which in turn leads to a more significant event, and so on until some ultimate, significant event is reached, where the connection of each event is not only unwarranted but with each step it become more and more improbable. | 78 | |
| 9562070973 | Straw Man | Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack or attempting to refute another person's argument by only addressing a weak or distorted version of it. | 79 | |
| 9562070974 | Dramatic Irony | Occurs when the audience knows a key piece of information that a character in a play, movie or novel does not. | 80 | |
| 9562070975 | Motif | reoccurring pattern of images, words, or symbols that reveal a theme in a work of literature. | 81 | |
| 9562070976 | Tone | speaker's attitude toward a subject or an audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. | 82 | |
| 9562070977 | Mood | Synonymous with atmosphere, mood is the feeling created for the reader by a work of literature. | 83 | |
| 9562070978 | Claim | Also called an assertion or proposition, a claim states the argument's main idea or position | 84 | |
| 9562070979 | Classical oration | Classical rhetoricians outlined a five-part structure for an oratory, or speech, that writers still use today, although perhaps not always consciously | 85 | |
| 9562070980 | Concession | An acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable | 86 | |
| 9562070981 | Refutation | A denial of validity of an opposing argument | 87 | |
| 9562070982 | First hand evidence | Something that you know, whether it's from personal experience, anecdotes you've heard from others, observations, or your general knowledge of events | 88 | |
| 9562070983 | Second hand evidence | Evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. | 89 | |
| 9562070984 | Qualitative evidence | Evidence supported by reason, tradition, or precedent | 90 | |
| 9562070985 | Quantitive evidence | Includes things that can be represented in numbers: statistics, surveys, polls, census information. | 91 | |
| 9562070986 | Toulmin Model | An approach to analyzing and constructing arguments | 92 |
