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| 14659784985 | Active Voice | The active voice is essentially any sentence with an actie verb. Johnny Appleseed planted his seeds in the garde. The activ verb is "planted." Active voice is usually preferred in writing because it expresses more energy and command of the essay than does the passive voice | 0 | |
| 14659792239 | Ad Hominem | A personal attack instead of topic | 1 | |
| 14659793435 | Allusion | Reference that recalls another work, time, or famous person and so on. Often requires basic knowledge of said reference | 2 | |
| 14659796561 | Alliteration | Sound repetition | 3 | |
| 14660263435 | Anadiplosis | The last word of clause begins the next clause. Creating a connection of ideas important to the author's purpose in some way. The furries pursued The men. The man were chased by their nightmares. The nightmare awakened everyone in the room | 4 | |
| 14660263436 | Analogy | Signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas. | 5 | |
| 14660263437 | Anaphora | Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several poetic lines. Example I will fight for medical care. I will fight for Social Security. I will fight for minimum-wage | 6 | |
| 14660263438 | Anastrophe | The reversal of me in a natural order of words in the sentence. Ex: Poisoned apple she ate gave to her cramps of serious nature | 7 | |
| 14660263439 | Antithesis | An observation or claim that is in opposition to your claim | 8 | |
| 14660263440 | Aphorism | Statement of an opinion or elemental truth. | 9 | |
| 14660263441 | Apostrophe | Prayer like that is a direct address to someone not present; diety or a muse | 10 | |
| 14660263442 | Appositive | A noun phrase; modifies the noun next to it. The Dragon, a large creature with glittering scales. | 11 | |
| 14660263443 | Argument from Ignorance | An argument stating something is true because it hasn't been proven false. Ex: God exists because no one has proven he doesn't | 12 | |
| 14660263444 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words to create a tight sentence. (Basically alot of commas) | 13 | |
| 14660263445 | Bandwagon | Also known as vox populi "everybody's doing it" fallacy. Ex: politicians saying "we all agreed to reduce taxes" | 14 | |
| 14660263446 | Begging the question | Occurs when speaker states the claim that includes word or phrase that needs to be defined. Ex: "because of extreme conditions we must vote for this." Brings into question "what extreme conditions?" | 15 | |
| 14660263447 | Cause-and-effect | Also known as post ergo hoc propter hoc which means "After this, therefore because of this" fallacy; example: every time you turn the game on the team loses | 16 | |
| 14660263448 | Chiasmus | Follows the ABBA structure. Ex: ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. (A) country. (B) you. (B) you. (A) country. | 17 | |
| 14660263449 | Complex sentence | Sentence structure that is a combination of dependent and independent clause. Ex: If you walk to the tower you will see a sacred sardine can | 18 | |
| 14660263450 | Compound sentence | A sentence structure made up of two independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunction. Ex: "Don't open the door or a deadly smell will kill you" | 19 | |
| 14660263451 | Compound complex sentence | Combination of compound and complex sentence | 20 | |
| 14660263452 | Connotation | Associations or moods that accompany a word | 21 | |
| 14660263453 | Declarative sentence | Basic statements or assertion and most common sentence | 22 | |
| 14660263454 | Juxtaposition | Making an idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite | 23 | |
| 14660263455 | Jargon | Pattern of speech in vocab associated with a particular group of people. Ex: doctors, astronauts | 24 | |
| 14660263456 | Subordinate conjunction | Conjunction that makes an independent clause dependent Ex: because, if, which, since, although | 25 | |
| 14660263457 | Parallel syntax | Pattern of language that creates a rhythm of repetition Ex: "we will fight them on the beaches and fight them on the hills fight them in the forest and in the villages of the dell" | 26 | |
| 14660263458 | Oxymoron | Two words that together create a sense of opposition Ex: "The Mariner's cultivated vulgarity" | 27 | |
| 14660263459 | Non sequitur | "It does not follow" An argument by misdirection, logically a relevant | 28 | |
| 14660263460 | Metonymy | When I name for one thing a substitute for another with which it's associated "Crown spoke with authority" King or queen's are both associated with crowns | 29 | |
| 14660263461 | Malapropism | Word play where word is replaced by similar sounding word for humor Ex: pinnacle of politeness pineapple of politeness ("humorous" wordplay) | 30 | |
| 14660263462 | Syllogism | Three-part argument construction in which two premises lead to truth Ex: all humans are mortal. Heather is human. Therefore Heather is mortal. (A is x. B is A. B is X?) | 31 | |
| 14660275354 | Logos | Appeal to reason | 32 | |
| 14660275355 | Metaphor | Figure of speech in which what is unknown as compared to something known in order to gauge it's importance | 33 | |
| 14660275356 | Object | A noun to which thoughts feelings or actions directed "Object of affection" | 34 | |
| 14660275357 | Onomatopoeia | Pow | 35 | |
| 14660275358 | Parentheticals | Words inside parenthesis | 36 | |
| 14660275359 | Subject | Noun that is the focus of the sentence | 37 | |
| 14660275360 | synecdocae | I'm going to figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole ex: all hands on deck | 38 | |
| 14660275361 | Loose sentence | Independent clause followed by degree or dependent clauses. | 39 |
