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| 162004312 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 162004313 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or historic event. | 1 | |
| 162004314 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 162004315 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of sucessive clauses. | 3 | |
| 162004316 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event. | 4 | |
| 162004317 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to the text. | 5 | |
| 162004318 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 162004319 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 162004320 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 8 | |
| 162004321 | Aphorism | Short, astute statement of a general truth. | 9 | |
| 162004322 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 162004323 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 162004324 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 162004325 | Aristotelian Triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, subject, and the audience. | 13 | |
| 162004326 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. When supported by evidence it becomes and argument. | 14 | |
| 162004327 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 162004328 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, and clauses. | 16 | |
| 162004329 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through the author's tone. | 17 | |
| 162004330 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or a piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 162004331 | Authority | A reliable, respected source- someone with knowledge. | 19 | |
| 162004332 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 162004333 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 162004334 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 22 | |
| 162004335 | Close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. | 23 | |
| 162004336 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 162004337 | Common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 162004338 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 26 | |
| 162004339 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding. | 27 | |
| 162004340 | Connotation | That which is implied by the word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning. | 28 | |
| 162004341 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 162004342 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and or but. | 30 | |
| 162004343 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 31 | |
| 162004344 | Credible | Worthy of belief; trustworthy | 32 | |
| 162004345 | Cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 33 | |
| 162004346 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 34 | |
| 162004347 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. | 35 | |
| 162004348 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 36 | |
| 162004349 | Dialectal journal | A double-column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in the other column. | 37 | |
| 162004350 | Diction | Word choice. | 38 | |
| 162004351 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 39 | |
| 162004352 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 40 | |
| 162004353 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. | 41 | |
| 162004354 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals. | 42 | |
| 162004355 | Explication of text | Explanation of a text's meaning through an analysis of all its constituent parts, including literary devices used also called close reading. | 43 | |
| 162004356 | Facts | Information that is true or demonstrable. | 44 | |
| 162004357 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 45 | |
| 162004358 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 46 | |
| 162004359 | Fragment | A word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence. | 47 | |
| 162004360 | Hortative sentence | Sentence that exhorts, advices, calls to action. | 48 | |
| 162004361 | Hortatory | urging, or strongly encouraging. | 49 | |
| 162004362 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 50 | |
| 162004363 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's sense (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) | 51 | |
| 162004364 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 52 | |
| 162004365 | Induction | Reasoning from a specific to general. | 53 | |
| 162004366 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 54 | |
| 162004367 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action an result. | 55 | |
| 162004368 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 56 | |
| 162004369 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"' an appeal to logic; of of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals. | 57 | |
| 162004370 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken as of though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 58 | |
| 162004371 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 59 | |
| 162004372 | Modifier | A word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or describes another word, phrase, or clause. | 60 | |
| 162004373 | Narration | Retelling an event or series of events. | 61 | |
| 162004374 | Nominalization | Turning a verb or adjective into a noun. | 62 | |
| 162004375 | Occasion | An aspect of context, the cause or reason for writing. | 63 | |
| 162004376 | Omniscient narrator | An all-knowing, usually third-person narrator. | 64 | |
| 162004377 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory statements. | 65 | |
| 162004378 | Pacing | The relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an ideal is presented. | 66 | |
| 162004379 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 67 | |
| 162004380 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 68 | |
| 162004381 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another, use for comic effect or ridicule. | 69 | |
| 162004382 | Pathos | A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals. | 70 | |
| 162004383 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that builds towards and ends with the main clause. | 71 | |
| 162004384 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 72 | |
| 162004385 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 73 | |
| 162004386 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. | 74 | |
| 162004387 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of series of conjunctions. | 75 | |
| 162004388 | Premise; major, minor | Two parts of syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premises and its subject from the minor premise. Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor: All horses are mammals. Conclusion: All horses are warm-blooded. | 76 | |
| 162004389 | Pronoun | A word used to replace a noun or noun phrase | 77 | |
| 162004390 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 78 | |
| 162004391 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 79 | |
| 162004392 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 80 | |
| 162004393 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 81 | |
| 162004394 | 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. | 82 | |
| 162004395 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 83 | |
| 162004396 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience. | 84 | |
| 162004397 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something but actually argues against it. | 85 | |
| 162004398 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 86 | |
| 162004399 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions- such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 87 | |
| 162004400 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patters to create a desired effect. | 88 | |
| 162004401 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 89 | |
| 162004402 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate and independent clause. | 90 | |
| 162004403 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 91 | |
| 162004404 | 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. | 92 | |
| 162004405 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves a creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 93 | |
| 162004406 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and the arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 94 | |
| 162004407 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 95 | |
| 162004408 | Subordinate clause | Created by a subordination conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 96 | |
| 162004409 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 97 | |
| 162004410 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise. | 98 | |
| 162004411 | Syntax | Sentence structure. | 99 | |
| 162004412 | Synthesize | Combining or bring together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 100 | |
| 162004413 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all the parts of the work refer. | 101 | |
| 162004414 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 102 | |
| 162004415 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 103 | |
| 162004416 | Topic sentence | A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis. | 104 | |
| 162004417 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a non-literal way; also called a figure of speech. | 105 | |
| 162004418 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 106 | |
| 162004419 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 107 | |
| 162004420 | 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 | 108 |
