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| 9929623750 | English | English | 0 | |
| 9929623751 | adage | a proverb or wise saying commonly used (ex: Things are not always as they seem.) | 1 | |
| 9929623752 | allegory | a story in which people, things and happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning.(fables, parables, apologue have meanings on two or more levels.) | 2 | |
| 9929623753 | alliteration | words used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group; a repetition of similar sounds/letters in the sentence. (Wicked witch of the west went her own way.) | 3 | |
| 9929623754 | allusion | a passing reference to a commonly-known historical, cultural, religious, literary, or mythical person, place, event, or work of art, whereby the reader must make the connection within the current text. | 4 | |
| 9929623755 | ambiguity | multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, passage or sentence; can lead reader toward uncertainty of meaning | 5 | |
| 9929623756 | analogy | establishing a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas; helps convey meaning of a new idea | 6 | |
| 9929623757 | anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect; most commonly found in the Bible (O Lord,.for I am weak.O Lord, heal me. O Lord, have mercy on me.) | 7 | |
| 9929623758 | anecdote | short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh; Anecdotes can include an extensive range of tales and stories | 8 | |
| 9929623759 | antecedent | word, phrase, or clause that is replaced by a pronoun | 9 | |
| 9929623760 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse grammatical order; Ex: "Fair is foul and foul is fair." | 10 | |
| 9929623761 | antithesis | parallel structures of the contrasted phrases or clauses, i.e. the structures of phrases and clauses are similar in order to draw the attention of the listeners or readers; Ex: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." | 11 | |
| 9929623762 | apostrophe | speaker talks to someone or something that is obviously not present | 12 | |
| 9929623763 | appositive | a renaming of a noun or noun phrase immediately after first stating the noun | 13 | |
| 9929623764 | archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 14 | |
| 9929623765 | argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence | 15 | |
| 9929623766 | asyndeton | author purposely leaves out conjunctions in the sentence, while maintaining the grammatical accuracy of the phrase; shortening the statement for greater impact; "Reduce, reuse, recycle." | 16 | |
| 9929623768 | cacophony | Tremendous noise, disharmonious sound | 17 | |
| 9929623769 | characterization | Actions, dialogue, and narrative description that reveal a sense of a character's personality to the reader. | 18 | |
| 9929623770 | circumlocution | an indirect or wordy way of expressing an idea which leaves the reader perplexed; exaggeratedly long and complex sentences in order to convey a meaning that could have otherwise been conveyed through a shorter, much simpler sentence | 19 | |
| 9929623771 | climax | that point in a plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest. Also called "turning point" | 20 | |
| 9929623773 | concession | An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent's point. | 21 | |
| 9929623774 | conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects; unusual and unlikely comparisons between two things | 22 | |
| 9929623775 | connotation | associations people make with words that go beyond the literal or dictionary definition | 23 | |
| 9929623776 | context | The parts before or after a word or statement that influence its meaning | 24 | |
| 9929623777 | counter argument | an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument. | 25 | |
| 9929623778 | cumulative sentence | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 26 | |
| 9929623779 | denotation | Dictionary definition of a word; literal meaning | 27 | |
| 9929623780 | denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot | 28 | |
| 9929623781 | detail | The facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose. | 29 | |
| 9929623783 | elegy | a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. | 30 | |
| 9929623784 | ellipsis | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods ... | 31 | |
| 9929623785 | epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society | 32 | |
| 9929623786 | ethos | One of the fundamental strategies of argumentation identified by Aristotle. Ethos is basically an appeal to credibility. The writer is seeking to convince you that he or she has the background, history, skills, and/or expertise to speak on the issue. | 33 | |
| 9929623787 | euphemism | From the Greek for "good speech," euphemisms are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept - POLITICALLY CORRECT | 34 | |
| 9929623788 | exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | 35 | |
| 9929623789 | hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. (The literal Greek meaning is "overshoot.") Hyperboles often have a comic effect; however, a serious effect is also possible. Often, hyperbole produces irony. | 36 | |
| 9929623790 | imagery | use of words and phrases to create "mental images" for the reader; helps the reader visualize more realistically the author's writings through the usage of metaphors, allusions, descriptive words and similes | 37 | |
| 9929623792 | inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 38 | |
| 9929623793 | verbal irony | Sarcasm; what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 39 | |
| 9929623794 | juxtaposition | placing an idea next to its opposite to emphasize contrast and comparison | 40 | |
| 9929623795 | logos | An appeal to reason. Logos is one of the fundamental strategies of argumentation identified by Aristotle. It occurs when a writer tries to convince you of the logic of his argument. writers may use inductive argumentation or deductive argumentation, but they clearly have examples and generally rational tome to their language. The problem with logos is that is can appear reasonable until you dissect the argument and then find fallacies that defeat the viability of the argument on the reader's eyes. Of course, that presupposes that the readers is able to identify the fallacies. | 41 | |
| 9929623796 | metaphor | A figurative comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as | 42 | |
| 9929623797 | metonymy | (mĕtŏn′ ĭmē) A term from the Greek meaning "changed label" or "substitute name," metonymy is a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. For example, a news release that claims "the White House declared" rather than "the President declared" is using metonymy; Shakespeare uses it to signify the male and female sexes in As You Like It: "doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat." The substituted term generally carries a more potent emotional impact. | 43 | |
| 9929623800 | narrative | a fiction, nonfiction, poetic, or dramatic story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text. | 44 | |
| 9929623801 | non sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from evidence | 45 | |
| 9929623803 | onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Ex: buzz, hiss, hum, crack, whinny, and murmur. | 46 | |
| 9929623804 | organization | In a composition, the arrangement of ideas, incidents, evidence, or details in a perceptible order in a paragraph or essay. | 47 | |
| 9929623805 | oxymoron | A figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms; The richest literary oxymora(paradoxes) seem to reveal a deeper truth through their contradictions. Ex: "without laws, we can have no freedom." Shakespeare's Julius Caesar also makes use of a famous oxymoron: "Cowards die many times before their deaths" | 48 | |
| 9929623807 | parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 49 | |
| 9929623808 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 50 | |
| 9929623809 | parallel structure | repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. | 51 | |
| 9929623810 | parody | A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing | 52 | |
| 9929623811 | pathos | An appeal to emotion. This is one of the fundamental strategies of argumentation identified by Aristotle. Typically, pathos arguments may use loaded words to make you feel guilty, lonely, worried, insecure, or confused. | 53 | |
| 9929623812 | persona | An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | 54 | |
| 9929623813 | personification | author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 55 | |
| 9929623815 | polemic | a controversial argument, esp. attacking a particular opinion | 56 | |
| 9929623816 | propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 57 | |
| 9929623817 | prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 58 | |
| 9929623819 | refutation | The part of an argument wherein a speaker or writer anticipates and counters opposing points of view. | 59 | |
| 9929623820 | repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 60 | |
| 9929623821 | rhetoric | From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 61 | |
| 9929623822 | rhetorical appeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. The three major appeals are to ethos (character), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion). | 62 | |
| 9929623824 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience ex:Aristotelian triangle |  | 63 |
| 9929623825 | satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. It doesn't simply abuse (as in invective) or get personal (as in sarcasm). It targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals. | 64 | |
| 9929623826 | simile | A comparison of two things using like or as | 65 | |
| 9929623827 | symbolism | An ordinary object with an extraordinary significance | 66 | |
| 9929623828 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). | 67 | |
| 9929623829 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 68 | |
| 9929623830 | syntax | Language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences | 69 | |
| 9929623833 | transition | A word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph | 70 | |
| 9929623834 | voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 71 | |
| 9929695299 | anecdote | short narrative detailing an interesting, simple episode or event, usually in the life of an important person | 72 | |
| 9929697910 | aphorism | concise statement or expression of a principle in pointed words ("Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult" Hippocrates) | 73 | |
| 9929699246 | epithet | descriptive phrase highlighting key traits ("the Brown Bomber;" "the master mariner") | 74 | |
| 9929700081 | litotes | (Understatement, sometimes called Meiosis) - deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite ("Oh it's nothing; I can always get another Dad" or, said of a serious wound, "It's only a scratch.") | 75 | |
| 9929701573 | Paronomasia | pun- repetition of single word with two different meanings; two words that sound alike but have different meaning; a single word with two different meanings in same sentence | 76 | |
| 9929702550 | sarcasm | se of mockery, verbal taunts, or bitter irony, intended to hurt individuals ("Nice shooting, said to a teammate who has missed 10 foul shot free throws in a row). | 77 | |
| 9929704424 | syllepsis | When a single word that governs or modifies two or more others must be understood differently with respect to each of those words, often with a witty or comical effect. Not to be confused with zeugma. | 78 | |
| 9929705521 | zeugma | A general term describing when one part of speech (most often the main verb, but sometimes a noun) governs two or more other parts of a sentence (often in a series). ("But passion lends them power, time means, to meet. | 79 | |
| 9929706716 | amplification | (also called Climax; also, see Anadiplosis below)- the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance, often in parallel structure | 80 | |
| 9929707882 | parallelism | repeat grammatical structures at the word/phrase/clause level to balance expressions (showing that ideas have equal importance), to conserve words, and to build climaxes ("I came, I saw, I conquered.") | 81 | |
| 9929708805 | anastrophe | violate normal syntactical arrangement (e.g., "Yoda, I be not") for emphasis | 82 | |
| 9929710306 | apposition | escribe an object with an adjacent, explanatory element (e.g., Will Shakespeare, the greatest of all playwrights) | 83 | |
| 9929713132 | chiasmus | repeat an idea in inverted ABBA word order (e.g., "Eat to live; don't live to eat;" "People don't care how much you know; they want to know how much you care.") | 84 | |
| 9929713868 | parenthesis | repeat an idea in inverted ABBA word order (e.g., "Eat to live; don't live to eat;" "People don't care how much you know; they want to know how much you care.") | 85 | |
| 9929716973 | brachylogia | omission of conjunctions between a series of words, for broken, hurried delivery | 86 | |
| 9929718556 | polysedenton | (opposite of asyndeton)- many conjunctions between clauses, for slowed effect ("I went to the store, and I parked my bike, and I gazed in the window, and I saw the red shoes...") | 87 | |
| 9929719351 | Scesis Onomaton | a series of successive, synonymous expressions (usually nouns-adjectives, but not necessarily) ("Mr. Jones, master teacher, sentence scion, grammar gremlin, entered the room") | 88 | |
| 9929720723 | Anadiplosis | repetition of last word/phrase from previous clause/line/sentence at beginning of next clause/line/sentence - technically, Climax (see above) ("Glass from sand; sand from quartz; quartz from mountains.") | 89 | |
| 9929721346 | Epistrophe | end a successive series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words | 90 | |
| 9929722756 | polyptoton | using a cognate of a given word in close proximity ("With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder | 91 | |
| 9929723417 | Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words ("Beyond the wand of the magic lawn.") | 92 | |
| 9929723983 | Consonance | The repetition of consonants in words stressed in the same place (but whose vowels differ). Also, a kind of inverted alliteration, in which final consonants, rather than initial or medial ones, repeat in nearby words ("Mackinac Island: We dredge for fudge.") | 93 |
