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| 7120233701 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words | 0 | |
| 7120233702 | Allusion | indirect reference, often to another text or historic event | 1 | |
| 7120233703 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 2 | |
| 7120383720 | Anaphora | Repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 7120383721 | Anecdote | Short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 7120383722 | Annotation | (n.) a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work | 5 | |
| 7120383723 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 6 | |
| 7120383724 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 7120383725 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 8 | |
| 7120383726 | Aphorism | Short astute statement of a general truth | 9 | |
| 7120383727 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 7120383728 | archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 7120383729 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 7120383730 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among speaker, subject, and audience | 13 | |
| 7120383731 | Assertion | a declaration or statement | 14 | |
| 7120383732 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 7120383733 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 16 | |
| 7120383734 | Attitude | Speakers position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 7120383735 | audience | Those to whom a speech/writing is for | 18 | |
| 7120383736 | authority | A reliable, respected source-someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 7120383737 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 20 | |
| 7120383738 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 7120383739 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 7120383740 | close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language | 23 | |
| 7120383741 | Colloquial | An informal or conversational use of language | 24 | |
| 7120383742 | common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 7120383743 | complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 26 | |
| 7120383744 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 27 | |
| 7120383745 | Connotation | That why ch is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 28 | |
| 7120383746 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 7120383747 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 30 | |
| 7120383748 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 31 | |
| 7120383749 | cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
| 7120383750 | declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 33 | |
| 7120383751 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 7120383752 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 35 | |
| 7120383753 | Diction | Word choice | 36 | |
| 7120383754 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 37 | |
| 7120383755 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 38 | |
| 7120383756 | Epigram | A brief witty statement | 39 | |
| 7120383757 | Ethos (ethical appeal) | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's 3 rhetorical appeals | 40 | |
| 7120383758 | figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 41 | |
| 7120383759 | figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 42 | |
| 7120383760 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for effect | 43 | |
| 7120383761 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 44 | |
| 7120383762 | imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 45 | |
| 7120383763 | Induction | reasoning from specific to general. Statement in which the verb precedes the subject | 46 | |
| 7120383764 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 47 | |
| 7120383765 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 48 | |
| 7120383766 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 49 | |
| 7120383767 | Metaphor | Figure of speech through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison | 50 | |
| 7120383768 | Metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 51 | |
| 7120383769 | occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 52 | |
| 7120383770 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | 53 | |
| 7133600484 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 54 | |
| 7133600485 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 55 | |
| 7133600486 | Parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 56 | |
| 7133600487 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 57 | |
| 7133600488 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 58 | |
| 7133600489 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | 59 | |
| 7133600490 | Polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 60 | |
| 7133600491 | Polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 61 | |
| 7133600492 | Premise | a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion | 62 | |
| 7133600493 | Propaganda | Negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 63 | |
| 7133600494 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 64 | |
| 7133600495 | refute | To discrete dit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 65 | |
| 7133600496 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use. | 66 | |
| 7133600497 | rhetorical modes | patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose | 67 | |
| 7133600498 | rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect rather than to summon an answer | 68 | |
| 7133600499 | Rhetorical Triangle | author, audience, purpose | 69 | |
| 7133600500 | Satire | A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness | 70 | |
| 7133600501 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 71 | |
| 7133600502 | Sentence Patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into know sentence constructions | 72 | |
| 7133600503 | sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 73 | |
| 7133600504 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 74 | |
| 7133600505 | simple sentence | a statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 75 | |
| 7133600506 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 76 | |
| 7133600507 | Speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 77 | |
| 7133600508 | Straw Man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting and then attacking an opponents position | 78 | |
| 7133600509 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 79 | |
| 7133600510 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 80 | |
| 7133600511 | subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 81 | |
| 7133600512 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 82 | |
| 7133600513 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning with a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | 83 | |
| 7133600514 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 84 | |
| 7133600515 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 85 | |
| 7133600516 | Thesis | central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 86 | |
| 7133600517 | thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 87 | |
| 7133600518 | Tone | The speakers attitude toward the subject | 88 | |
| 7133600519 | topic sentence | a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph | 89 | |
| 7133600520 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 90 | |
| 7133600521 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point. | 91 | |
| 7133600522 | Voice | Relationship between a verb and noun; in rhetoric between quality in style and tone of writing | 92 | |
| 7133600523 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word modifies or governs two or more words | 93 |
