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| 8832639929 | Adage | A familiar proverb or wise saying | 0 | |
| 8832645282 | Aphorism | A concise statement that usually gives advice on how to live (ex. when life gives you lemons make lemonade) | 1 | |
| 8832650432 | Antecedent | The word to which a pronoun refers (Taehyung made a cake. He decorated it beautifully) he referring to Taehyung | 2 | |
| 8832658978 | Ad Hominen | "Attack the man" Fallacy in which the debater is attacking the person not their argument. | 3 | |
| 8832662415 | Ad Populum | Bandwagon. A fallacy in which one agrees with an argument because everyone is doing it. | 4 | |
| 8832671407 | Apostrophe | Talking to something non-human | 5 | |
| 8832677059 | Allegory | A story that has a symbolic level of meaning outside the tale itself. | 6 | |
| 8832680174 | Anecdote | A short narrative that tells about an incident or event. | 7 | |
| 8832683208 | Anastrophe | Unusual word order on the structure of a sentence. | 8 | |
| 8832688543 | Antimetabole | A reversal of word order. Chiasmus | 9 | |
| 8832690422 | Assertion | A claim; a confident statement of fact. | 10 | |
| 8832694417 | Assumption | A warrant; something taken for granted or accepted as true without true; a valid assumption | 11 | |
| 8832698595 | Abstract | Intangible for example good and evil, uses example to support its point | 12 | |
| 8832701815 | Absolute | Not qualified or diminished in any way no exception | 13 | |
| 8832704642 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next; example when i give ,i give myself | 14 | |
| 8832709327 | Allusion | A reference to another (well-known) word on person | 15 | |
| 8832713088 | Archaism | The use of old fashioned language; example shakesphere | 16 | |
| 8832713089 | Academic | Dry and Rhetoric writing; writing that sucks all the life out of its subject with analysis; like textbooks they are not meant to entertain | 17 | |
| 8832721429 | Anaphora | Repeats at the beginning of each sentence. | 18 | |
| 8832725805 | Assonance | Same, vowel sound repeating; ex. poems when the try to sound the same | 19 | |
| 8832728334 | Alliteration | Ex, The barbarians broke through the barricade | 20 | |
| 8832731286 | Antithesis | Ex, promised freedom, provided slavery( opposite ideas) | 21 | |
| 8832735862 | Asyneton | Ex. You can barbecue it, boil,bake it, sautee it | 22 | |
| 8832739001 | Analogy | comparison of two things for explanation | 23 | |
| 8832740982 | Archetype | Original that has been imitated | 24 | |
| 8884593381 | Bathos | insincere pathos, writing that tries too hard to be emotional. overdoing it. | 25 | |
| 8884615496 | Backing | In argument, the support or for the warrant often characterized by the word because | 26 | |
| 8884627711 | Chiasmus | Clauses that are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structure. ex. Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you. | 27 | |
| 8884643312 | Context | the circumstances that form the setting of an event; the parts surrounding something. | 28 | |
| 8884655401 | Climax | the most intense part or culmination (peak) of a story | 29 | |
| 8884661488 | Conflict | man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. society | 30 | |
| 8884672894 | Conceit (Controlling image) | Two things are being compared in several lines. A comparison that is highly unlikely | 31 | |
| 8884681968 | Comic relief | Comic episodes in a dramatic on literacy work that offset more serious sections. | 32 | |
| 8884720584 | Claim | state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof | 33 | |
| 8884727952 | Claim of policy | is an essay consisting of an argument that certain conditions should exist. These essays advocate adoption of policies or courses of action because problems have arisen that call for a solution. | 34 | |
| 8884755053 | Claim of fact | answers. Did it happen? Is it true? Is it a fact? | 35 | |
| 8884767692 | Claim of value | Attempt to prove that some things are more or less desirable than others. | 36 | |
| 8884782129 | Closed thesis | gives reasons in your statement | 37 | |
| 8884792087 | Credibility | the quality of being trusted and believed in | 38 | |
| 8884806732 | Ceremonial argument | speech given at an event ex. maid of honors speech | 39 | |
| 8884822315 | Causal Argument | inductive arguments that aim at one kind of conclusion about regularity, namely the regularity of a cause-and-effect relationship | 40 | |
| 8923723553 | concrete | concrete imagery describes qualities that can be perceived with the five sensed | 41 | |
| 8923735168 | cacophony | harsh,awkward sound | 42 | |
| 8923737585 | colloquialism | speak but aren't real words like (wanna, sock you first)not what you use in a essay | 43 | |
| 8923758244 | connotation | everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies. | 44 | |
| 8923764967 | classical oration | five part argument structure introduction (exordium, narration, confirmation, refutation, conclusion) | 45 | |
| 8923791035 | conclusion | part of the classical oration the major part of an argument comes between the narration of the reputation. | 46 | |
| 8923800723 | concession | an acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true and resonable | 47 | |
| 8923806313 | counter argument | opposing argument strong writer will address the counterargument through | 48 | |
| 8923839119 | cliche | unoriginal, boring, everyone says it, overused | 49 | |
| 8923846652 | cumulative sentence | independent clause followed by a sense of subordinate clauses of phrases | 50 | |
| 8923916417 | compound sentences | can stand alone if separated | 51 | |
| 8923918308 | complex sentences | includes one independent and at least one dependent clause | 52 | |
| 8923925408 | character | a person in a novel or a play, mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual | 53 | |
| 8923988618 | dogmatism | my way or the highway | 54 | |
| 8923996475 | argument of definition | using a definition that using it to prove yourself correct ex. is cheerleading a sport get the definition of sport and see if cheerleading meets the standards | 55 | |
| 8924008119 | denotation | literal meaning of a word | 56 | |
| 8924011231 | dialect | variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features such as grammer | 57 | |
| 8924024441 | discourse | art of speaking | 58 | |
| 8924027232 | didactic | intended to teach | 59 | |
| 8924030106 | dissonance | tension or clash, don't fit together, and cause tension | 60 | |
| 8924037869 | diction | word choice and gives element to style | 61 | |
| 8924051685 | deductive reasoning | moves from general principles to specific conclusion (clue, clue, draw conclusion ) | 62 | |
| 8988073517 | epitaph | an inscription on a tombstone | 63 | |
| 8988084457 | epigraph | engraved inscription | 64 | |
| 8988087313 | eulogy | a formal speech praising a person who has died | 65 | |
| 8988091497 | elegy | a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner | 66 | |
| 8988100760 | expletive | profane or vulgar exclamation( bad words, curse words) | 67 | |
| 8988107957 | (conceit) extended metaphor | compare two unlikely subjects on a couple lines | 68 | |
| 8988114214 | gradatio | extended anadiplosis: continues the pattern of repetition from clause to clause ex. "the general who became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator , the gladiator who defied an emperor. | 69 | |
| 8988132630 | genre | a sub-category of; a category of writing characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter | 70 | |
| 8988140316 | hubris | excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main characters downfall | 71 | |
| 8988145730 | homily | a short sermon or a moralistic lecture. | 72 | |
| 8988152786 | hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggerated is used for emphasis or effect | 73 | |
| 8988159222 | hortative sentence | calls people into action | 74 | |
| 8988162560 | hypothetical question | fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient evidence | 75 |
