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| 2608685682 | Ethos | Refers to character, speaker, writer, or person and their credibility | 0 | |
| 2608685683 | Logos | Appeals to the reasoning or logic of the argument | 1 | |
| 2608685684 | Pathos | Appeals to the emotions of the reader and needed if the purpose of the speaker is to incite action | 2 | |
| 2608685685 | Metaphor | A stated comparison between two unlike things "a sea of trouble" | 3 | |
| 2608685686 | Simile | An explicit comparison between unlike things with the us of like or as | 4 | |
| 2608685687 | Personification | Attributing human qualities to an inanimate object "the tired chair" | 5 | |
| 2608685688 | Imagery | Sight,sound,touch,taste,smell - allows the reader to more fully participate in the work with images and experience that they can tie to directly or indirectly | 6 | |
| 2608685689 | Syntax | The intentional emphasis on word order/structure of a sentence or phrases | 7 | |
| 2608685690 | Pun | A play on the meaning of words "a mender of soles" | 8 | |
| 2608685691 | Irony | The speaker means something other than what is said | 9 | |
| 2608685692 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 10 | |
| 2608685693 | Litotes | Opposite of hyperbole | 11 | |
| 2608685694 | Metonymy | Designation of one thing with something closely associated with it | 12 | |
| 2608685695 | Oxymoron | Contradiction; two contradictory terms or ideas used together | 13 | |
| 2608685696 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be contradictory but. | 14 | |
| 2608685697 | Onomatopoeia | Refers to the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning | 15 | |
| 2608685698 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words | 16 | |
| 2608685699 | Euphemism | An inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or harsh | 17 | |
| 2608685700 | Allusion | A reference to another text or assumed knowledge of a reference | 18 | |
| 2608685701 | Chiasmus | Grammatical structure | 19 | |
| 2608685702 | Diction | Analyze only unusual word choices | 20 | |
| 2608685703 | Parallelism | A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses | 21 | |
| 2608685704 | Juxtaposition | The placing of contrasting settings, characters, or other literary elements in paragraphs or between sections of text. Example: In Cold Blood | 22 | |
| 2608685705 | Antithesis | The placing of opposing or contrasting ideas | 23 | |
| 2608685706 | Asyndeton | Conjunctions are omitted | 24 | |
| 2608685707 | Polysyndeton | The use of many conjunctions has the opposite effect of asyndeton | 25 | |
| 2608685708 | Anaphora | A form of a regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases | 26 | |
| 2608685709 | Repetition in general | Repeated use of words, phrases, or clauses | 27 | |
| 2608685710 | Loose or periodic sentences | Placing the subject at the end of the sentence | 28 | |
| 2608685711 | Rhetorical questions | A question posed by the speaker which has an obvious answer | 29 | |
| 2608685712 | Tone | The accumulated and implied attitude | 30 | |
| 2608685713 | Tone shift | Because tone radiates from the author, through a speaker or narrator and then to the reader, a tone shift indicates a shift in attitude about through subject | 31 | |
| 2612107409 | Synecdoche | One word that makes the reader think of all things in the class | 32 |
