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| 8641366509 | Anecdote | Short, simple narrative of an incident; often used for humorous effect or to make a point | 0 | |
| 8641366510 | arguementation | Attempts to prove a point by "reasoned arguments" ex; persuasive writing | 1 | |
| 8641366511 | Allegory | Extended narrative of an incident in pose or verse, where characters, events & settings represent abstract qualities & writer extends a second meaning: moral, religious, political, social, or satiric | 2 | |
| 8641366512 | Annotation | Explanatory notes added to a text to explain structure & to add understanding to authors purpose, cite sources, or give bibliographical data. | 3 | |
| 8641366513 | Antithesis | the presentation of two contrasting images that are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs | 4 | |
| 8641366514 | Rhetoric | The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing; figurative speech, & other comp techniques | 5 | |
| 8641366515 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase in everyday conversation & informal writing but often inappropriate in formal writing. | 6 | |
| 8641366516 | Connotation | Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a readers mind. Opposite of denotation. | 7 | |
| 8641592735 | Consonance | Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity | 8 | |
| 8641592736 | caricature | descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature, appearance or facet of personality | 9 | |
| 8641592737 | Coherence | The quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central theme or idea | 10 | |
| 8641592738 | Aphorism | Short, often witty statement of a principle or truth about life. | 11 | |
| 8641592739 | Apostrophe | Usually in poetry but sometimes in prose: calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction. | 12 | |
| 8641592740 | cacophony | Hard, awkward or dissonant sounds used deliberately in prose or poetry. | 13 | |
| 8641592741 | connotation (n) | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 14 | |
| 8641592742 | Dennotation | The dictionary meaning of a word | 15 | |
| 8641592743 | Enumeration | A rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. Type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Writers use this to clarify & detail understanding. | 16 | |
| 8674204354 | Analogy | A comparison of two ideas or things | 17 | |
| 8674204355 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 18 | |
| 8674204356 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 19 | |
| 8674204357 | Metonymy | figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea | 20 | |
| 8674204358 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 21 | |
| 8674204359 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 22 | |
| 8674204360 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 23 | |
| 8674204361 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 24 | |
| 8697626412 | Synecdoche | A part of something that represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part | 25 | |
| 8697626413 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character important for the reader to "sense" to determine an argument conveyed through word choice or viewpoint of a writer | 26 | |
| 8697626414 | Process Analysis | The documentation and detailed understanding of how work is performed and how it can be redesigned | 27 | |
| 8697626415 | Syntax | A set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. English- refers to how we choose to arrange our words. Choice of words is called diction, and these are closely related. | 28 | |
| 8791431702 | Provocative Diction | Our choice of words. The purposeful use of words to provoke, excite, or stimulate a provocative question that will frame a rhetorical argument. | 29 | |
| 8791431703 | Classification | the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics. Often a strategy of argumentation in order to provide the reader with structure to your argument. | 30 | |
| 8791431704 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 31 | |
| 8791431705 | Colorful Diction | Purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone | 32 | |
| 8791431706 | Counterargument | an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument. MANDATORY to acknowledge the other side to tot heir argument. | 33 | |
| 8791431707 | Claim | Providing an argument to support your position | 34 | |
| 8791431708 | Evidence | In the form of paraphrase and quotations. Presented to persuade the readers and used with powerful arguments in the texts or essays. | 35 | |
| 8791431709 | Warrant | The glue that holds an argument together. Links the evidence to the claim. | 36 | |
| 8791431710 | fallcy | An erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention. | 37 | |
| 8791431711 | logical fallacy | a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system. | 38 | |
| 8791431712 | Prophcey | A significant difference between prophecy and prediction. A prophecy has all the elements of a prediction except the element of time. A prophecy is hard to determine. A prophecy has more of a religious connotation since there is an element of uncertainty about time. | 39 | |
| 8791431713 | Prediction | A forecast made by those who calculate the parameters of the subject involved after evaluating the odds they can predict the future. A prediction is limited to a time element unlike a prophecy. | 40 | |
| 8791431714 | adage | A short, pointed & memorable saying based on facts and is considered a veritable truth by the majority of people. | 41 | |
| 8791431715 | Pendantic | Means to teach. Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant & ostentatious show of learning. He could be a writer, character, feelings, tone, or words. | 42 | |
| 8791431716 | flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness often associated with the impatience of youth. | 43 | |
| 8791431717 | evocative | The use of language that suggests meanings other than the denotative. Language that connects with emotions or feelings not associated with the actual meaning of a word | 44 | |
| 8791431718 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause | 45 | |
| 8791431719 | syntactical inversion | Reversing the normal word order of a sentence | 46 | |
| 8791431720 | Apposition | A grammatical construction in which two elements normally noun phrases are placed side by side with one element serving to identify the other in different way. The two elements are said to be in apposition | 47 | |
| 8791431721 | Didactic | Frequently used for those literary texts which are overloaded with informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details. Often referring to the forms of literature that are ostentatiously dull and erudite. | 48 | |
| 8791431722 | Conceit | two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors | 49 | |
| 8791431723 | anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | 50 | |
| 8791431724 | anagram | Word play where the letters of a word or phrase are rearranged so a new word is formed. | 51 | |
| 8791431725 | periodic structure | Has the main clause and the predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis & can be persuasive by the putting the reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made. Can create suspense or interest for the reader | 52 | |
| 8791431726 | Paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth | 53 | |
| 8791431727 | Irony | The intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words also may in a different way than expected. | 54 | |
| 8791431728 | Parenthesis | a qualifying or explanatory sentence, clause or word that writers insert into a paragraph or passage | 55 | |
| 8810070659 | sardonic | Grimly mocking, sarcastic, satirical, mocking in a humorous manner. A tone word that describes writing that fits the meaning. | 56 | |
| 8810070660 | Satire | expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends on improve humanity by criticizing follies and foibles. Uses fictional characters, standing for real people to expose & condemn their corruption. | 57 | |
| 8810070661 | polemical | relating to or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech | 58 | |
| 8810070662 | Ambiguity | a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning. | 59 | |
| 8810070663 | Archetype | Universal symbol, may be a character, theme, or a setting. Have a common and reoccurring representation in a particular human culture or entire human race, shape the structure & function of a literary work. | 60 | |
| 8829819128 | Function of an archetype | Gives literary work universal acceptance | 61 | |
| 8829819129 | tragic flaw | the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy | 62 | |
| 8829819130 | assertion | a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief | 63 | |
| 8829819131 | autobiography | An account of a person's life written by that person | 64 | |
| 8870306204 | memoir | an account based on the author's personal experiences | 65 | |
| 8870306205 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 66 | |
| 8870306206 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 67 |
