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| 10530465138 | hominem argument | argument that attacks opposing speaker | 0 | |
| 10530467285 | allegory | fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts | 1 | |
| 10530472627 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 10530475058 | allusion | passing reference to a familiar person place or thing | 3 | |
| 10530480137 | amibiguity | uncertain or indefinite | 4 | |
| 10530483181 | analogy | resemblance of two things that are essentially different | 5 | |
| 10530489309 | analytical reading | Reading actively paying attention to content and structure of the text | 6 | |
| 10530493248 | anteccedent | noun from which another pronoun derives its meaning | 7 | |
| 10530498937 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 8 | |
| 10530502593 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person | 9 | |
| 10530505004 | apotheosis | raising to god status | 10 | |
| 10530509640 | appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 11 | |
| 10530511565 | argument | to attempt to convince the reader to agree with a point of view | 12 | |
| 10530518499 | assertion | The thesis or proposition that a writer puts forward in argument. | 13 | |
| 10530521279 | assonance | type of internal rhyming | 14 | |
| 10530525028 | assumption | belief or that is taken for granted | 15 | |
| 10530529278 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 16 | |
| 10530530887 | atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | 17 | |
| 10530534307 | attitude | describes feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject | 18 | |
| 10530542670 | audience | the intended reader of a piece | 19 | |
| 10530544233 | bathos | A false or forced emotion that is often humorous. | 20 | |
| 10530548237 | claim | proposition put forth in argument | 21 | |
| 10530559079 | classification | The process of grouping things based on their similarities | 22 | |
| 10530565464 | cliche | expression that has become ineffective through overuse | 23 | |
| 10530570590 | coherence | A quality of good writing that results when all sentences, paragraphs and longer divisions of an essay are naturally connected. | 24 | |
| 10530575036 | colloquial expression | Characteristic of or appropriate to spoken language or to writing that seeks its effect. | 25 | |
| 10530583002 | compare and contrast | finding similarities and differences between 2 things | 26 | |
| 10530585542 | concrete | names a specific person place or thing that can be directly perceived by the senses | 27 | |
| 10530594775 | connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 28 | |
| 10530595851 | contrast | help writers to expand on their ideas by allowing them to show both what a thing is and what it is not | 29 | |
| 10530600994 | deduction | process of reasoning from a sated premise to a necessary conclusion | 30 | |
| 10530610570 | definition | statement of the meaning of a word | 31 | |
| 10530614890 | description | tells how a person place or things perceived by the 5 senses | 32 | |
| 10530625276 | dialogue | conversation that is recorded in a place of writing | 33 | |
| 10530628488 | diction | authors choice of words | 34 | |
| 10530630853 | division | breaking a single large unit into smaller ones | 35 | |
| 10530639806 | dominant impression | the single mood, atmosphere, or quality a writer emphasizes in a piece of descriptive writing | 36 | |
| 10530640906 | draft | a first or preliminary form of any writing, subject to revision, copying, etc. | 37 | |
| 10530644770 | editing | The process of updating a document to make changes, correct errors, and make it visually appealing | 38 | |
| 10530649380 | elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation | 39 | |
| 10530652262 | emphasis | the placement of important ideas and words within sentences and longer units of writing so that they have the greatest impact | 40 | |
| 10530653809 | essay | a short piece of nonfiction writing on a particular subject. | 41 | |
| 10530660096 | ethos | credibility | 42 | |
| 10530667088 | euphemism | A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea | 43 | |
| 10530673792 | evaluation | assessment of its effectiveness or merit | 44 | |
| 10530683079 | evidence | data on which an argument is based | 45 | |
| 10530688217 | examples | basic means of developing or clarifying an idea | 46 | |
| 10530696836 | exemplification | Providing examples in service of a point. | 47 | |
| 10530701120 | exposition | to clarify explain and inform | 48 | |
| 10530703570 | fact | A statement that can be proved. | 49 | |
| 10530707370 | figures of speech | imaginative comparisons in which one thing is described in terms of another | 50 | |
| 10530710082 | fiction | based on actual occurrences | 51 | |
| 10530715239 | figurative language | imply an imaginative comparison | 52 | |
| 10530718200 | focus | limitation that a writer gives his or her subject | 53 | |
| 10530724328 | foreshadowing | A purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative | 54 | |
| 10530727575 | grammar | a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages | 55 | |
| 10530730173 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect | 56 | |
| 10530737182 | idiom | a word or phrase that is habitually with a particular meaning in a language | 57 | |
| 10530752794 | image | a mental picture of something | 58 | |
| 10530754455 | induction | process of reasoning to a conclusion about all members of a class | 59 | |
| 10530763542 | irony | when a situation produces an outcome opposite of what was expected | 60 | |
| 10530768446 | juxtaposition | when to contrasting things are placed next to each other | 61 | |
| 10530774415 | fallacy | error in reasoning | 62 | |
| 10530776975 | logos | The use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument | 63 | |
| 10530778891 | metaphor | figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared directly | 64 | |
| 10530789468 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 65 | |
| 10530792880 | mood | The prevailing or dominant feeling of a work, scene, or event | 66 | |
| 10530794462 | narration | to tell a story | 67 | |
| 10530799529 | objective/subjective | Objective writing is factual and impersonal, whereas subjective writing,, relies heavily on personal interpretation. | 68 | |
| 10530800957 | Onomatopoeia | words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning | 69 | |
| 10530810453 | opinion | a belief or opinion | 70 | |
| 10530813877 | organization | thoughtful arrangement of ones points or ideas | 71 | |
| 10530819308 | overview | A brief summary of a whole work | 72 | |
| 10530821455 | oxymoron | combines two contradictory words in one expression | 73 | |
| 10530827222 | pacing | the speed of a story's action, dialogue, or narration | 74 | |
| 10530830834 | paradox | contradiction that reveals some truth | 75 | |
| 10530833310 | paragraph | the single most important unit of thought in an essay, is a series of closely related sentences | 76 | |
| 10530836779 | Parallelism | A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures | 77 | |
| 10530838758 | parody | effort to make fun of a literary work | 78 | |
| 10530844861 | pathos | A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work | 79 | |
| 10530848027 | person | describes the relationship of a writer to an audience by examining the pronouns that are used | 80 | |
| 10530855069 | persona | The character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text | 81 | |
| 10530860577 | Personification | objects are described as having human qualities | 82 | |
| 10530867787 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 83 | |
| 10530869289 | prewriting | The thinking and planning done before a person writes. | 84 | |
| 10530870583 | Process Analysis | answers the question how | 85 | |
| 10530873321 | publication | when the writer shares his or her writing with the intended audience | 86 | |
| 10530875857 | pun | A play on words | 87 | |
| 10530877141 | purpose | what the writer wants to accomplish in a particular piece of writing | 88 | |
| 10530880833 | Reptition | repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis | 89 | |
| 10530884492 | revision | writer determines what in the draft needs to be developed | 90 | |
| 10530896740 | satire | ridicule or mock ideas | 91 | |
| 10530903748 | selection of detail | The specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene or narrative | 92 | |
| 10530905573 | sequence | the order in which things happen or should happen | 93 | |
| 10530906901 | simile | commonly used figure of speech like or as | 94 | |
| 10530915997 | slang | informal language | 95 | |
| 10530917789 | slanting | use of certain words that result in a biased view point | 96 | |
| 10530924095 | speaker | narrator in the story | 97 | |
| 10530932322 | strategy | means by which a writer achieves his or her purpose | 98 | |
| 10530940561 | style | individual manor in which a writer expresses his or her view | 99 | |
| 10530945638 | subject | what the essay is about | 100 | |
| 10530948144 | syllogism | argument that utilizes deduct reasoning | 101 | |
| 10530957389 | symbol | A person, place, or thing that stands for something beyond itself | 102 | |
| 10530960189 | synonym | A word that means the same as another word | 103 | |
| 10530961730 | syntax | The way words are arranged in a sentence | 104 | |
| 10530965950 | technical language | specific vocabulary of a trade or profession | 105 | |
| 10530972981 | tension | A feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work. | 106 | |
| 10530976436 | texture | the way elements of a work of poetry are joined together | 107 | |
| 10530984167 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | 108 | |
| 10530985544 | thesis | statement of the main idea | 109 | |
| 10530987736 | title | beginning of an essay to identify the subject | 110 | |
| 10530994175 | tone | the way an author presents his idea | 111 | |
| 10530999514 | topic sentence | states the central idea | 112 | |
| 10531002275 | transitions | words that link sentences and paragraphs to achieve coherence | 113 | |
| 10531012141 | understatement | When an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves | 114 | |
| 10531014406 | unity | when all the words contribute to a thesis | 115 | |
| 10531020032 | voice | how the speaker presents himself to the reader | 116 | |
| 10531024435 | writing process | consists of 5 major stages | 117 | |
| 10531030084 | zeugma | particular breech of sense in a sentence | 118 |
