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| 10190773835 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 10190787068 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or historical event | 1 | |
| 10190798004 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 10191284821 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 10191287512 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 10191290343 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers | 5 | |
| 10191291839 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 6 | |
| 10191309357 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 7 | |
| 10191313315 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth | 8 | |
| 10191325587 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 9 | |
| 10191348988 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 10 | |
| 10191360760 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 11 | |
| 10191383038 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 12 | |
| 10191386606 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 13 | |
| 10191390890 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 14 | |
| 10191397939 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 15 | |
| 10191401994 | Authority | A reliable, respected source-someone with knowledge | 16 | |
| 10191405405 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 17 | |
| 10191412473 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 18 | |
| 10191414277 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 19 | |
| 10191432734 | Close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, & other literary & structural elements of a text | 20 | |
| 10191443293 | Colloquialism | An informal or conversational use of language | 21 | |
| 10191445285 | Complex Sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 22 | |
| 10191456325 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding | 23 | |
| 10191459223 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 24 | |
| 10192318349 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 25 | |
| 10192322053 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 26 | |
| 10192323937 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 27 | |
| 10192332547 | Cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 28 | |
| 10192336575 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement | 29 | |
| 10192344884 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific | 30 | |
| 10192348054 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 31 | |
| 10192353665 | Diction | Word choice | 32 | |
| 10192354191 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 33 | |
| 10192355922 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 34 | |
| 10208617330 | Epigram | A brief witty statement | 35 | |
| 10208619914 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 36 | |
| 10208626317 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech;going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 37 | |
| 10208644357 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning | 38 | |
| 10208649409 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 39 | |
| 10208652433 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses(sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) | 40 | |
| 10208658152 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or demands | 41 | |
| 10208661682 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general | 42 | |
| 10208670893 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject | 43 | |
| 10208674772 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 44 | |
| 10208680140 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 45 | |
| 10214236214 | Logos | A Greek term that means "Word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 46 | |
| 10214266436 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison | 47 | |
| 10214297444 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 48 | |
| 10214309047 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing | 49 | |
| 10216652913 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines tow contradictory terms | 50 | |
| 10216656280 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 51 | |
| 10216660164 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 52 | |
| 10216670233 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent feature of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 53 | |
| 10216680681 | Pathos | A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotole's three rhetorical appeals | 54 | |
| 10216692937 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 55 | |
| 10216700984 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | 56 | |
| 10216705042 | Polemic | An argument against an idea; usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 57 | |
| 10216710473 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 58 | |
| 10216721742 | Premise | Major, minor-Two parts of syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise. For example: Major: All mammals are warm blooded. Minor: All horses are mammals. Conclusion: All horses are warm-blooded | 59 | |
| 10216746048 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 60 | |
| 10216752724 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in speech or piece of writing | 61 | |
| 10216757338 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 62 | |
| 10216766090 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion" | 63 | |
| 10216779665 | Rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation | 64 | |
| 10216801687 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer | 65 | |
| 10216813626 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker , the subject, and the audience | 66 | |
| 10216819505 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 67 | |
| 10216827864 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 68 | |
| 10216836623 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions- such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 69 | |
| 10223348905 | Sentence Variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 70 | |
| 10223353235 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 71 | |
| 10223360162 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 72 | |
| 10223363969 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information | 73 | |
| 10223369565 | Speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 74 | |
| 10223378119 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 75 | |
| 10223383976 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 76 | |
| 10223390301 | Subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 77 | |
| 10223393020 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 78 | |
| 10223405390 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise | 79 | |
| 10224329994 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 80 | |
| 10224336138 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 81 | |
| 10224342841 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 82 | |
| 10224350711 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 83 | |
| 10224359071 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 84 | |
| 10224366375 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing | 85 | |
| 10224371904 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence | 86 |
