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| 10690793498 | authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 0 | |
| 10690793499 | audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 1 | |
| 10690793500 | Backing | Support or evidence for a claim in an argument | 2 | |
| 10690793501 | assertion | a declaration or statement | 3 | |
| 10690793502 | Means vs. Ends | Means are motivational only because they produce something else, whereas ends are self-motivating goals desired for no reason other than that is what a person wants. The balance of means goals and end goals can be used to theorize on what we do and why | 4 | |
| 10690793503 | deductive reasoning | reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.) | 5 | |
| 10690793504 | inductive reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | 6 | |
| 10690793505 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 7 | |
| 10690793506 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character. | 8 | |
| 10690793507 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 9 | |
| 10690793508 | Denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 10 | |
| 10690793509 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 11 | |
| 10690793510 | colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 12 | |
| 10690793511 | formal | following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way | 13 | |
| 10690793512 | informal | having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial style, manner, or nature. not formal | 14 | |
| 10690793513 | concrete | existing in a material or physical form; real or solid | 15 | |
| 10690793514 | abstract | theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational | 16 | |
| 10690793515 | detail | Facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in the work | 17 | |
| 10690793516 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 18 | |
| 10690793517 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 19 | |
| 10690793518 | Setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | 20 | |
| 10690793519 | figurtive language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 21 | |
| 10690793520 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 22 | |
| 10690793521 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 23 | |
| 10690793522 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 24 | |
| 10690793523 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 25 | |
| 10690793524 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 26 | |
| 10690793525 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 27 | |
| 10690793526 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 28 | |
| 10690793527 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 29 | |
| 10690793528 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 30 | |
| 10690793529 | anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 31 | |
| 10690793530 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 32 | |
| 10690793531 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 33 | |
| 10690793532 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 34 | |
| 10690793533 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 35 | |
| 10690793534 | rhetorical modes (modes of discourse) | The variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing: exposition, argumentation, description, narration. | 36 | |
| 10690793535 | Exemplification | Providing examples in service of a point. | 37 | |
| 10690793536 | cause and effect | The reason something happens and the result of it happening. | 38 | |
| 10690793537 | description | a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event | 39 | |
| 10690793538 | Process Analysis | A method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something. | 40 | |
| 10690793539 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse | 41 | |
| 10690793540 | comparison and contrast | A mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared and contrasted. Comparison often refers to similarities, contrast to differences. | 42 | |
| 10690793541 | Exposition | A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. | 43 | |
| 10690793542 | Argumentation | writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting reasoned arguments; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation | 44 | |
| 10690793543 | Repetition | the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device | 45 | |
| 10690793544 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 46 | |
| 10690793545 | first person | "I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective. | 47 | |
| 10690793546 | second person | The narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said, using the personal pronoun "you." This point of view is rare. | 48 | |
| 10690793547 | third person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside the action and refers to characters as he or she | 49 | |
| 10690793465 | subjective | Based on personal opinions, feelings, and attitudes; not objective | 50 | |
| 10690793466 | objective | Factual, related to reality or physical objects; not influenced by emotions, unbiased | 51 | |
| 10690793467 | Syntax | the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language | 52 | |
| 10690793468 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 53 | |
| 10690793469 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 54 | |
| 10690793470 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 55 | |
| 10690793471 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 56 | |
| 10690793472 | parallel sentence | a sentence that shows similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words | 57 | |
| 10690793473 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 58 | |
| 10690793474 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 59 | |
| 10690793475 | inverted syntax | A sentence constructed so that the predicate comes before the subject (ex: In the woods I am walking.) | 60 | |
| 10690793476 | subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 61 | |
| 10690793477 | independent clause | expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. Has both a subject and a verb. | 62 |
