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| 2303740570 | Active Voice | The subject of the sentences performs the action.This is more direct and preferred style of writing in most cases. | 0 | |
| 2303751761 | Passive Voice | The opposite is passive voice when the subject of the sentence receives the action. | 1 | |
| 2303756947 | Allusion | An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text although it can be other things like the bible, myths, and history etc). | 2 | |
| 2303770508 | Alter-ego | A character that is used by the author own thoughts , when the author speaks directly to the audience through a character. | 3 | |
| 2303778848 | Anecdote | A brief recounting of a relevant episode.(short story, grab attention) | 4 | |
| 2303785952 | Antecedent | The word phrase, or clause referred to by pronoun. | 5 | |
| 2303792357 | Classicism | Art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world ; sticks to traditional themes and structures. | 6 | |
| 2303799618 | Comic Relief | when a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood somewhat. | 7 | |
| 2303803782 | Diction | Word choice, particular as an element of style .Different types of words have significant effects on meaning. | 8 | |
| 2303812888 | Colloquial | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation. | 9 | |
| 2303815298 | Connotation | Rather than the dictionary definition the associations suggested by a word. Implied meaning rather than literal meaning. | 10 | |
| 2303823915 | Denotation | The literal,explicit meaning of a word without its connotations. | 11 | |
| 2303829971 | Jargon | The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity.Lawyers and soccer players use it. | 12 | |
| 2303838100 | Vernacular | Language or dialect of a particular country , plain everyday speech , language or dialect of a regional clan or group. | 13 | |
| 2303847613 | Didactic | A term used to describe fiction non-fiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking, | 14 | |
| 2303856169 | Adage | A folk saying with a lesson "a rolling stone gathers no moss" | 15 | |
| 2303859738 | Allegory | A story, fictional or noun fictional in which characters things and events represent qualities or concepts. | 16 | |
| 2303885885 | Ahorism | A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle, | 17 | |
| 2304055878 | Elispsis | The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose dome for effect by the author. | 18 | |
| 2304110611 | Euphemism | A moral agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts . | 19 | |
| 2304119724 | Figurative language | is the opposite of literal language which is writing that makes complete sense when you take it at face value. Figurative language is opposite writing that does is not mean to be taken literally. | 20 | |
| 2305106970 | Analogy | An analogy is a comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables. | 21 | |
| 2305111808 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration 'my mother will kill me if I'm late" | 22 | |
| 2305117907 | Idiom | A common often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally."i got chewed up by my coach" | 23 | |
| 2305124372 | Metaphor | Making an implied comparison ,not using "like""as" or other such words .An extended metaphor is when the metaphor is continued later in the written work . | 24 | |
| 2305163839 | Metonomy | Replacing an actual word or idea , with a related word or concept. | 25 | |
| 2305133949 | Synecdoche | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa. | 26 | |
| 2305137423 | Simile | Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very diffrent things. | 27 | |
| 2305142245 | Synesthesia | a description involving a "crossing of the senses" | 28 | |
| 2305145189 | Personification | Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human. | 29 | |
| 2305146351 | Foreshadowing | When am author gives hints about what will occur later in the story | 30 | |
| 2305148218 | Genre | the major category into which a literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry and drama, | 31 | |
| 2305153196 | Gothic | Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death ,also architecture style in middle ages. | 32 | |
| 2305169060 | Imagery | Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind,usually involves five senses (metaphors ,similes .figurative lang.) | 33 | |
| 2305174852 | Invective | A long, emotionally violent , attack using strong, abusive language. | 34 | |
| 2305177385 | Irony | When the opposite of what you expect to happen does. | 35 | |
| 2305180026 | Verbal Irony | When you say something and mean the opposite/something different. | 36 | |
| 2305183280 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience of a drama ,play, movie etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out. | 37 | |
| 2305188841 | Situational Irony | Found in the plot of a book ,story ,or movie. Sometimes can cause humor by how things turn out to be. | 38 | |
| 2305195754 | Juxtaposition | Placing things side by side for the purpose of comparison. | 39 | |
| 2305197675 | Mood | The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice. | 40 | |
| 2305200042 | Motif | A recurring idea in a piece of literature. | 41 | |
| 2305202813 | Oxymoron | When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggested a paradox.'wise fool' or "jumbo shrimp" | 42 | |
| 2305208068 | Pacing | The speed or tempo of an authors writing. | 43 | |
| 2305211056 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true.'you cant get a job without an experience' | 44 | |
| 2305214481 | Parallelism | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical construction near each other or repeats identical grammatical patterns. | 45 | |
| 2305220055 | Anaphora | Repetition of s word, phrase or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row. | 46 | |
| 2305226987 | Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in the same succession, but the second time the words are reversed. | 47 | |
| 2305232492 | Anthithesis | two opposite or contrasting words ,phrases, or clauses or even ideas with parallel structure. | 48 | |
| 2305237168 | Zuegma | When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies. | 49 | |
| 2305243672 | Parenthetical idea | Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence. | 50 | |
| 2305249886 | Parody | An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. | 51 | |
| 2305251452 | Persona | The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story. | 52 | |
| 2305254922 | Polysendenton | When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions. | 53 | |
| 2305257882 | Pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way. | 54 | |
| 2305260615 | Rhetoric | The art of effective communication. | 55 | |
| 2305262120 | Rhetorical Questions | Questions not asked for information but for effect. | 56 | |
| 2305263329 | Romanticism | Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic view of people and the world and an emphasis on nature. | 57 | |
| 2305268754 | Sarcasm | A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded. Not all are sarcastic ,it is the bitter mocking tone that separates sarcasm from mere verbal irony or satire | 58 | |
| 2305274554 | Satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. | 59 | |
| 2305277230 | Sentence | A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. | 60 | |
| 2305279511 | Appositive | A word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning. | 61 | |
| 2305282778 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 62 | |
| 2305285345 | Independent Clause | expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. | 63 | |
| 2305287441 | Dependent or subordinates clause | cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent clause. | 64 | |
| 2305291009 | Balanced sentence | A sentence in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale. | 65 | |
| 2305293595 | Compounded sentence | Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses | 66 | |
| 2305295468 | Complex sentence | contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 67 | |
| 2305297649 | Cumulative sentence | When the writer begins with an independent clause then adds subordinates elements. | 68 | |
| 2305301261 | Periodic sentence | when the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence. | 69 | |
| 2305303518 | Simple sentence | contains only one independent clause. | 70 | |
| 2305304962 | Declarative sentence | states an idea. | 71 | |
| 2305305748 | Imperative sentence | Issues a command. | 72 | |
| 2305306671 | Interrogative sentence | sentences incorporating interrogative pronouns. | 73 | |
| 2305308828 | Style | the choices in diction, tone , and syntax that a writer makes. | 74 | |
| 2305310489 | Symbol | anything that represents or stands for something else. | 75 | |
| 2305313131 | Syntax/sentence variety | grammatical arrangements of words. | 76 | |
| 2305314285 | Theme | the central idea or message of a work. | 77 | |
| 2305315270 | Thesis | the sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the authors opinion ,purpose , meaning or proposition. | 78 | |
| 2305319795 | Tone | A writers attitude towards his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language ,and organization. | 79 | |
| 2305323110 | Understatement | the ironic minimizing of fact , understatement presents something as less significant than it is. | 80 | |
| 2305325120 | Litotes | a particular form of understatement, generated by denying the opposite of the statement which other wise would be used. | 81 | |
| 2305329009 | Argument | an argument is a piece of reasoning with one or more premises and a conclusion. | 82 | |
| 2305330695 | Premesis | statements offered as reasons to support a conclusion are premises. | 83 | |
| 2305333571 | Conclusions | a conclusion is the end result of the argument-the main point being made. | 84 | |
| 2305335468 | Ethos | means being convinced by the credibility of the author. | 85 | |
| 2305337086 | Pathos | means persuading by appealing to the readers emotions. | 86 | |
| 2305338035 | Logos | means persuading by the use of reasoning using true premises and valid arguments. | 87 | |
| 2305340561 | Concession | accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint . | 88 | |
| 2305344287 | Conditional statement | a conditional statement is an if-then statement and consists of two parts ,an antecedent and a consequent. | 89 | |
| 2305347700 | Contradiction | a contradiction occurs when asserts two mutually exclusive propositions,such as "abortion is wrong and abortion is not wrong". | 90 | |
| 2305352133 | Counterexample | A counterexample is an example that runs counter to a generalization , thus falsifying it. | 91 | |
| 2305354681 | Deductive argument | an argument in which it is thought that the premises provide a guarantee of the truth of the conclusion. | 92 | |
| 2305358701 | Fallacy | a fallacy is an attractive but unreliable piece of reasoning. | 93 | |
| 2305359672 | Ad hominem | Latin for "against the man" | 94 | |
| 2305361653 | Appeal to authority | the claim that because somebody famous supports an idea , the idea must be right. | 95 | |
| 2305365032 | Appeal to bandwagon | the claim as evidence for an idea, that many people believe it or used to believe it, or do it. | 96 | |
| 2305367939 | Appeal to emotion | an attempt to replace a logical argument with an appeal to the audience's emotions. | 97 | |
| 2305371308 | Bad analogy | Claiming that two situations are highly similar , when they aren't . | 98 | |
| 2305373441 | Cliche thinking | using as evidence a well-known saying, as if it is proven or as if it has no exceptions. | 99 | |
| 2305375775 | False cause | assuming that because two things happened , the first one caused the second one. | 100 | |
| 2305377470 | Hasty generalization | a generalization based on too little or unrepresentative data. | 101 | |
| 2305379685 | Non Sequitur | a conclusion that does not follow from its premises; an invalid argument. | 102 | |
| 2305381299 | Slippery slope | the assumption that once started a situation will continue to its most extreme possible outcome. | 103 | |
| 2305385839 | Inductive argument | an argument in which it is thought that the premises provide reasons supporting the probable truth of the conclusion. | 104 | |
| 2305388329 | Sound argument | a deductive argument is said to be sound if it meets two conditions: first, that the line of reasoning from the premises to the conclusion is valid. | 105 | |
| 2305391720 | Unstated premises | not every argument is fully expressed, sometimes conclusion or premises are left unexplained. | 106 |
