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| 7846562338 | Assertion | The writer's claim; An emphatic statement one must prove. | 0 | |
| 7846562339 | Anecdote | A short, simple narrative of an incident; Often used for humorous effect or to make a point. | 1 | |
| 7846562340 | Point of View | The perspective from which a story is presented. | 2 | |
| 7846562341 | Figurative Language | Language that creates figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors, in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal. | 3 | |
| 7846562342 | Chronology | An order of events; A list of events; The study of the order in which things occur; This is often part of the pattern of development of process analysis. | 4 | |
| 7846562343 | Ad Hominem | In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. | 5 | |
| 7846562344 | Empirical Claim | A claim or assertion that is based on data such as facts, detailed and provable observations, data, and experimentation. An empirical statement makes a statement that is not based on opinion. | 6 | |
| 7846562345 | Logical Fallacy | A mistake in reasoning. | 7 | |
| 7846562346 | Counterclaim | An argument that challenges another argument; A fact or opinion that challenges the reasoning behind somebody's proposal and shows that there are grounds for taking an opposite view. | 8 | |
| 7846562347 | Generalization | When a writer draws conclusions from scanty evidence or based an argument in insufficient evidence. | 9 | |
| 7846562348 | Counterproposal | A proposal that is written in response to one that is unsatisfactory. | 10 | |
| 7846562349 | Disclaimer | A statement that denies something, especially responsibility. | 11 | |
| 7846562350 | Erudite | Having or showing great knowledge/learning. | 12 | |
| 7846562351 | Prose | One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms. | 13 | |
| 7846562352 | Qualification | A limitation on the range or precision of a claim which often expresses degrees of confidence or probability; A statement that is not absolute. | 14 | |
| 7846562353 | Equivocation | A half-truth, or a statement that is partially correct but that purposefully obscures the entire truth. | 15 | |
| 7846562354 | Paradox | A statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning or to contain truth. | 16 | |
| 7846562355 | Concrete Detail | Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather these ideas or qualities. | 17 | |
| 7846562356 | Parallelism | The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or lager structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. | 18 | |
| 7846562357 | Exhortation | An address or communication (speech, letter, etc.) emphatically urging someone to do something. | 19 | |
| 7846562358 | Laudatory | Praiseworthy; Admirable. | 20 | |
| 7846562359 | Strident | Noisy; Forceful; Persuasive. | 21 | |
| 7846562360 | Refute | To prove something wrong through logical argument or by providing evidence to the contrary; To deny something. | 22 | |
| 7846562361 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in form writing. | 23 | |
| 7846562362 | Speculative | Hypothetical; Theoretical; Projected. | 24 | |
| 7846562363 | Contrast | A pattern of organization in which two things are juxtaposed to highlight their similarities and differences which often reveals insights into the nature of the information being analyzed. | 25 |
