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| 10578636047 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 0 | |
| 10578636505 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 1 | |
| 10578639459 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 2 | |
| 10578640765 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 3 | |
| 10578640766 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 4 | |
| 10578641355 | Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 5 | |
| 10578643261 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. An addition to your name. "Grey eyed Athena" | 6 | |
| 10578644125 | Bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity | 7 | |
| 10578644879 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 8 | |
| 10578647684 | periodic sentence | a sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/or complement. "Even though I love strawberries and considering that I enjoy peaches also, I prefer mangoes infinitely." MAIN CLAUSE COMES LAST | 9 | |
| 10578648465 | cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. MAIN CLAUSE FIRST. Same as loose sentence | 10 | |
| 10578650110 | balanced sentence | a sentence made up of two parts that are roughly equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure | 11 | |
| 10578650882 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 12 | |
| 10578651473 | Antithesis | a direct opposite, a contrast | 13 | |
| 10578651474 | Inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 14 | |
| 10578652372 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 15 | |
| 10578653135 | anathema | (n.) an object of intense dislike; a curse or strong denunciation (often used adjectivally without the article) | 16 | |
| 10578655410 | aphorism/epigram | A terse saying embodying a general truth; an astute observation; an adage | 17 | |
| 10578656533 | modes of discourse (rhetorical modes) | describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing. Four of the most common rhetorical modes and their purpose are exposition, argumentation, description, and narration. | 18 | |
| 10578657582 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse | 19 | |
| 10578658184 | Exposition | A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. | 20 | |
| 10578658639 | description | the picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and touch; one of the four modes of discourse | 21 | |
| 10578661469 | Persuasion | the active and conscious effort to change an attitude through the transmission of a message | 22 | |
| 10578661957 | 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. | 23 | |
| 10578662568 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 24 | |
| 10578663151 | mock-heroic | imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject | 25 | |
| 10578663989 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 26 | |
| 10578664937 | myth | a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. | 27 | |
| 10578665606 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 28 | |
| 10578672054 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 29 | |
| 10578672055 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 30 | |
| 10578672806 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 31 | |
| 10578673639 | Figures of speech/figurative language | a primarily imagery-based rhetorical strategy that uses imaginative language to suggest a special meaning or create a special effect (figures of speech are devices used to produce figurative language, such as apostrophe, metaphor, personification, simile, etc.). | 32 | |
| 10578674400 | structure | the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex. | 33 | |
| 10578674790 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 34 | |
| 10767061906 | Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words | 35 | |
| 10767081643 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 36 | |
| 10767092252 | anecdote | A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to support a generalization or claim. | 37 | |
| 10767101834 | Antagonist | the character who opposes the interests of the protagonist | 38 | |
| 10767108326 | Antimetabole | the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order - for example "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy" | 39 | |
| 10767133425 | antihimeria | The substitution of one part of speech for another - for example, "The poet says we 'milestone our lives.'" | 40 | |
| 10767140600 | apologist | A person or character who makes a case for some controversial, even contentious, position. | 41 | |
| 10767144085 | apology | An elaborate statement justifying some controversial, even contentious, position. | 42 | |
| 10767156635 | appeal | One of three strategies for persuading audiences--logos, appeal to reason; pathos, appeal to emotion; and ethos, appeal to ethics. | 43 | |
| 10767158896 | Appostive | A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning | 44 | |
| 10767164132 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram showing the relations of writer/speaker, audience (reader or listener) and text in a rhetorical situation | 45 | |
| 10767169804 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words | 46 | |
| 10767320868 | Syndeton | the omission of conjunctions between related clauses - for example "I came, I saw, I conquered" | 47 | |
| 10767334727 | begging the question | The situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept. | 48 | |
| 10767337793 | Canon | One of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition -- invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery. | 49 | |
| 10767346308 | claim | The ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point that a syllogism or enthymeme expresses. The point, backed up by support, of an argument. | 50 | |
| 10769364477 | complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one or more dependent clause. | 51 | |
| 10769381115 | compound-complex sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses | 52 | |
| 10769392352 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses | 53 | |
| 10769400085 | compound subject | the construction in which two or more nouns, noun phrases, or noun clauses constitute the grammatical subject of a clause | 54 | |
| 10769412566 | conclusion (of syllogism) | the ultimate point or generalization that a syllogism expresses | 55 | |
| 10769414948 | confirmation | In ancient Roman oratory, the part of a speech in which the speaker or writer could offer proof or demonstration of the central idea. | 56 | |
| 10769420259 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed dictionary meaning | 57 | |
| 10769428538 | data (as evidence) | Facts, statistics, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion. | 58 | |
| 10769438879 | deductive reasoning | reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle | 59 | |
| 10769441425 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word, in contrast to its connotation, or implied meaning. | 60 | |
| 10769446833 | diction | Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/connotative value. | 61 | |
| 10769455503 | double entendre | the double (or multiple) meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous | 62 | |
| 10769459241 | Ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is provided by the overall context of a passage | 63 | |
| 10769469966 | Enthymeme | Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated | 64 | |
| 10769474756 | Epistrophe | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses - for example "they saw no evil, they spoke no evil, and they heard no evil" | 65 | |
| 10769492596 | ethos | The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator | 66 | |
| 10769527734 | exordium | in ancient Roman oratory, the introduction of a speech; literally, the "web" meant to draw the audience into the speech | 67 | |
| 10769530605 | fable | a narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance | 68 | |
| 10769538800 | figures of rhetoric | Schemes--that is, variations from typical word or sentence formation--and tropes, which are variations from typical patterns of thought. | 69 | |
| 10769568418 | implied metaphor | a metaphor embedded in a sentence rather than expressed directly as a sentence - for example "His voice cascaded through the hallways" | 70 | |
| 10769580676 | inductive reasoning | Reasoning that begins by citing a number of specific instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle. | 71 | |
| 10769624041 | jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. Legal, medical, military, mechanical. | 72 | |
| 10769626660 | litotes | understatement | 73 | |
| 10769630226 | logos | the appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas | 74 | |
| 10769638399 | loose sentence | a sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement. A complex sentence with parallel dependent clauses. "I prefer mangoes infinitely, even though I love strawberries and I enjoy peaches." MAIN CLAUSE COMES FIRST | 75 | |
| 10769643503 | metaphor | an implied comparison that does not use the word "like" or "as"; the most important of all the tropes | 76 | |
| 10769656385 | metonymy | an entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations - for example "The admissions office claims the applications have risen" - symbolism, something representing something else (close association) | 77 | |
| 10769667496 | Onomatopoeia | A literary device wherein the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents. - for example "buzz" | 78 | |
| 10769678222 | oxymoron | juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings - for example "jumbo shrimp" | 79 | |
| 10769683050 | paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 80 | |
| 10769688028 | parallelism | A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph | 81 | |
| 10769691530 | parenthesis | An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence. | 82 | |
| 10769745849 | pathos | an appeal of text to the emotions or interest of the audience | 83 | |
| 10769790953 | Periphrasis | the substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality characteristic - for example "Pete Rose - better known as 'Charlie Hustle' - admitted his gambling problem" | 84 | |
| 10769809490 | peroration | In ancient Roman oratory, the part of a speech in which the speaker would draw together the entire argument and include material designed to compel the audience to think or act in a way consonant with the central argument. | 85 | |
| 10769813152 | persona | the character that a writer or speaker conveys to the audience | 86 | |
| 10769827656 | persuasion | The changing of people's minds or actions by language. | 87 | |
| 10769832351 | petitio principi | begging of the question; disagreeing with premises or reasoning | 88 | |
| 10769835270 | point of view | the perspective or source of a piece of writing; first person refers to themself as "I" | 89 | |
| 10769848461 | premise, major | The first premise in a syllogism. The major premise states an irrefutable generalization. | 90 | |
| 10769851822 | premise, minor | The second premise in a syllogism. The minor premise offers a particular instance of the generalization state in the major premise. | 91 | |
| 10769868371 | pun | a play on words; types of puns include "antanaclasis" (words that sound alike but have different meanings) "paronomasia" (words alike in sound but different in meaning) "syllepsis" (a word used differently in relation to two other words it governs or modifies) | 92 | |
| 10769923076 | recursive | referring to the moving back and forth from invention to revision in the process of writing | 93 | |
| 10769926960 | refutation | In ancient Roman oratory, the part of a speech in which the speaker would anticipate objections to the points being raised and counter them. | 94 | |
| 10769932170 | rhetor | The speaker who uses elements of rhetoric effectively in oral or written test. | 95 | |
| 10769934675 | rhetoric | the art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective; the specific features of texts, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners | 96 | |
| 10769979412 | rhetorical choices | The particular choices a writer or speaker makes to achieve meaning, purpose, or effect. | 97 | |
| 10769982525 | rhetorical intention | involvement and investment in and ownership of a piece of writing | 98 | |
| 10769990384 | rhetorical situation | The convergence in a situation of exigency (the need to write), audience, and purpose. | 99 | |
| 10769996998 | rhetorical triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 100 | |
| 10770006110 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 101 | |
| 10770008434 | simple sentence | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | 102 | |
| 10770014509 | six-part oration | in classical rhetoric, a speech consisting of exordium, narration, partition, confirmation, refutation, and peroration | 103 | |
| 10770017757 | Soliloquy | dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to themself | 104 | |
| 10770024268 | style | the choices a writer makes in language for effect | 105 | |
| 10770045234 | subordinate clause | A group of words that includes a subject and verb but that cannot stand on its own as a sentence; also called dependent clause. | 106 | |
| 10770050280 | syllogism | logical reasoning from inarguable premises | 107 | |
| 10770054062 | symbol | in a text, an element that stands for more than itself and therefore helps to convey the theme of a text | 108 | |
| 10770068361 | Synecdoche | a part of something represents the whole. "Cool threads" - cool clothes (threads=>fabric=>clothes) | 109 | |
| 10770077514 | syntax | the order of words in a sentence | 110 | |
| 10770081178 | tautology | A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed. | 111 | |
| 10770101681 | trope | an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas. Metaphors, similes, ironies. A turn in normal expression (like Annie Dillard). The royal flush that arrests your attention | 112 | |
| 10770108088 | versimilitude | the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable | 113 | |
| 10770111253 | voice | The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona. | 114 | |
| 10770118259 | zeugma | A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning that are yoked together with 'and'. "He maintained his business and his innocence." | 115 |
