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| 6521631685 | Active Voice | The subject of the sentence perform the action. This is a more direct and perferred style of writing in most cases | 0 | |
| 6521645374 | Ad Hominem Argument | It refer to an argument that attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issue at hand | 1 | |
| 6521665299 | Allitertion | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in two or more neighboring words | 2 | |
| 6521675561 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place or work of art. | 3 | |
| 6521690116 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 6521697965 | Anecdote | A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event. The term most frequently refers to an incident in the life of a person. | 5 | |
| 6521711688 | Assertion | The thesis, claim, or proposition that a writer puts forward in an argument | 6 | |
| 6521722457 | Audience | The intended readership for a piece of writing. | 7 | |
| 6521737464 | Bathos | A false or forced emotion that is often humorous | 8 | |
| 6521743707 | Claim | The thesis, assertion or proposition put forth in an argument | 9 | |
| 6521750892 | Cliche | An expression that has become ineffective through overuse | 10 | |
| 6521758755 | Diction | Word choice, particularly an element of style. Different types of words have significant effects on meaning. | 11 | |
| 6521771291 | Colloquial | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation | 12 | |
| 6521783782 | Connotation | Rather than the dictionary definition of he words, this is the association suggested by a word. | 13 | |
| 6521791813 | Denotation | The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations | 14 | |
| 6521799534 | Jargon | The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity | 15 | |
| 6521810252 | Vernacular | 1. Language or dialect of a particular country 2. Language or or dialect of a regional clan 3. Plain everyday speech | 16 | |
| 6521848527 | Ethos | The speaker , their trustworthiness and the values of the speaker and the argument | 17 | |
| 6521857822 | Evidence | The data on which a judgement or argument is based on or by which proof or probability is established | 18 | |
| 6521871950 | Exigence | An issue, problem or situation that causes prompts someone to write or speak | 19 | |
| 6521881858 | Euphemism | A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 20 | |
| 6521892446 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 21 | |
| 6521895871 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally | 22 | |
| 6521903865 | Imagery | Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind; usually involving the five senses | 23 | |
| 6521912161 | Irony | What the opposite of what you expect to to happen does | 24 | |
| 6521921679 | Verbal Irony | When you say something and mean the opposite/ something different | 25 | |
| 6521926919 | 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 | 26 | |
| 6521943402 | Situational Irony | Found in the plot of a book, story, or movie. | 27 | |
| 6521956144 | Juxtaposition | Placing things side by side for the purpose of comparison | 28 | |
| 6521959424 | Logical Fallacy | A fallacy is an attractive but unreliable piece of reasoning | 29 | |
| 6521968410 | Appeal to authority | The claim that because somebody famous supports an idea, the idea must be right | 30 | |
| 6521986564 | Appeal to the bandwagon | The claim, as evidence for an idea, that many people believe it, or be used to believe it, or do it | 31 | |
| 6521999562 | Appeal to emotion | An attempt to replace a logical argument with an appeal to the audience's emotions | 32 | |
| 6522011383 | Bad Analogy | Claiming that two situations are highly similar, when they aren't | 33 | |
| 6522023555 | Cliche thinking | Using as evidence a well-known saying, as if it is proven, or as if I it has no exceptions | 34 | |
| 6522041775 | False Cause | Assuming that because two things happened, the first one caused the second one | 35 | |
| 6522052879 | Hasty generalization | Generalization based on too little or unrepresentative data | 36 | |
| 6522064202 | Red Herring | A fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue | 37 | |
| 6522075314 | Logos | The use of reason as a controlling principal in an argument | 38 | |
| 6522083897 | Oxymoron | When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggests a paradox | 39 | |
| 6522099239 | Parallelism | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns | 40 | |
| 6522118718 | Anaphora | One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences | 41 | |
| 6522148269 | Chiasmus | When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the word is reversed | 42 | |
| 6522166985 | Antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses or even ideas, with parallel structure | 43 | |
| 6522181570 | 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 | 44 | |
| 6522199101 | Parody | An effort to ridicule or make fun of a literary work or an author by writing an imitation of the authors work or style | 45 | |
| 6522213709 | Pathos | A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work | 46 | |
| 6522229433 | Pun | A play on words | 47 | |
| 6522232610 | Sarcasm | 48 |
