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| 7233127466 | abstract language | language that is not concrete (ex: love, honor) | 0 | |
| 7233128000 | ad hominem | latin for "against the man." when the writer personally attacks his or her opponents instead of their arguments | 1 | |
| 7233128682 | allegory | stories where events and characters have symbolic meaning | 2 | |
| 7233130057 | alliteration | the repetition of initial identical sounds in words in close proximity | 3 | |
| 7233130531 | allusion | an indirect reference to something (usually a literary text) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar | 4 | |
| 7233131540 | ambiguity | more than one interpretation of something | 5 | |
| 7233132279 | analogy | an analogy is a comparison to a directly parallel case | 6 | |
| 7233133084 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of consecutive sentences | 7 | |
| 7233134408 | anecdote | a funny story | 8 | |
| 7233134790 | annotation | marking up a text | 9 | |
| 7272580486 | antithesis | a balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses | 10 | |
| 7272580879 | assonance | vowel repetition | 11 | |
| 7272581402 | asyndeton | commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words | 12 | |
| 7272582231 | authority | using experts to back up your argument | 13 | |
| 7272582862 | backing | support or evidence for a claim in an argument | 14 | |
| 7272583110 | balance | when a sentence has two halves of equal length and importance | 15 | |
| 7272583487 | begging the question | circular reasoning | 16 | |
| 7272584264 | causal relationship | one thing follows as a result from another | 17 | |
| 7272584923 | chiasmus | arrangement of elements in the pattern X Y Y X | 18 | |
| 7272585498 | common knowledge | something everybody agrees on | 19 | |
| 7321434940 | concrete language | language that is not abstract | 20 | |
| 7321436480 | connotation | implied meaning (not literal) | 21 | |
| 7321440238 | consonance | alliteration with consonants | 22 | |
| 7321443699 | conventional | following a tradition of writing | 23 | |
| 7321446130 | cumulative | type of sentence with main idea at the beginning | 24 | |
| 7321448601 | deconstruction | a literary theory based on instability of language | 25 | |
| 7321451108 | diction | word choice | 26 | |
| 7321452609 | didactic | teachy preachy | 27 | |
| 7321454492 | dramatic irony | when the reader knows what the characters don't | 28 | |
| 7321457099 | either-or reasoning | when you take an argument and reduce it to polar opposites | 29 | |
| 7369428284 | elliptical | sentence where something in the second half is left out | 30 | |
| 7369429887 | emotional appeal | pathos | 31 | |
| 7369433283 | epigraph | quotation at the beginning of a literary work | 32 | |
| 7369434569 | equivocation | when a writer uses the same term twice with more than one meaning | 33 | |
| 7369436779 | ethical appeal | appeal based on the credibility of the person making the claim | 34 | |
| 7369442257 | example | an individual instance that represents a general pattern | 35 | |
| 7369446251 | explication | analyzing and interpreting a text | 36 | |
| 7369448603 | exposition | gives background information | 37 | |
| 7369451104 | false analogy | a comparison where the two cases are not parallel | 38 | |
| 7369453029 | fiction | imaginative writing | 39 | |
| 7458341960 | figurative language | language that uses figurative speech | 40 | |
| 7458346803 | freight-train | a sentence with 3 or more independent clauses joined by conjunctions | 41 | |
| 7458353782 | generalization | when you apply a specific example to a broader context | 42 | |
| 7458359850 | hyperbole | exaggeration for effect | 43 | |
| 7458364036 | image | a word picture relating to the senses | 44 | |
| 7458367974 | imagery | describing with sensory details | 45 | |
| 7458383273 | inversion | when you invert the normal word order | 46 | |
| 7458385493 | irony | when the words don't mean what they say | 47 | |
| 7458389201 | logic | appeal to reason | 48 | |
| 7458391698 | metaphor | a comparison that does not use like or as | 49 | |
| 7524465473 | mood | atmosphere created by the work | 50 | |
| 7524465474 | moral | lesson of a story | 51 | |
| 7524467705 | negative-positive | sentence that begins by stating what is not true, then ending by stating what is true | 52 | |
| 7524475921 | non-sequitur | latin for "it does not follow". it is not logically sequenced | 53 | |
| 7524479450 | objectivity | to be unbiased | 54 | |
| 7524479451 | onomatopoeia | when the word sounds like the thing it's describing | 55 | |
| 7524499791 | oversimplification | when a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument | 56 | |
| 7524502507 | oxymoron | two opposite words next to each other | 57 | |
| 7524514586 | paradox | something that appears false but is actually true | 58 | |
| 7524516981 | parallelism | repetition in a pattern | 59 | |
| 7601454946 | parody | humorous imitation of a work | 60 | |
| 7601458352 | pathos | appeal to emotion | 61 | |
| 7601460943 | periodic | sentence where main idea is at the end | 62 | |
| 7601466709 | persona | fictional voice of the author | 63 | |
| 7601466710 | personification | giving human characteristic to non-human things | 64 | |
| 7601472378 | point of view | perspective from which the story is told. they are first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient | 65 | |
| 7601474602 | polysyndeton | conjunction without commas | 66 | |
| 7601476677 | post hoc, ergo propter hoc | latin for "after this, therefore because of this" | 67 | |
| 7601481199 | red herring | when you raise an irrelevant issue to draw away from the real issues | 68 | |
| 7601488470 | refutation | when you write something to oppose the argument | 69 | |
| 7671842878 | repetition | word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity | 70 | |
| 7671846960 | rhetoric | all the avialable means to persuade | 71 | |
| 7671850239 | satire | a work that critizes human faults to try to make people better | 72 | |
| 7671853304 | sarcasm | a type of verbal irony that is intended to hurt somebody | 73 | |
| 7671853305 | simile | a comparison using 'like' or 'as' | 74 | |
| 7671865671 | straw man | when you set up an argument to knock it down that would discredit the real argument you're going after through analogy | 75 | |
| 7671915093 | style | all the choices a writer makes to express themselves | 76 | |
| 7675593517 | symbol | something that represents something else | 77 | |
| 7675595287 | synantic fluency | using a variety of sentence lengths | 78 | |
| 7675597486 | syntactic permutation | using long complicated sentences | 79 | |
| 7755084779 | theme | central idea of a work | 80 | |
| 7755084780 | tone | author's attitude toward a subject | 81 | |
| 7755086169 | tricolon | sentence with 3 parts of equal length and importance (usually independent clauses) | 82 | |
| 7755087935 | unity | how cohesive a writing is | 83 | |
| 7755087936 | verbal irony | when the words don't mean what they say | 84 | |
| 7755094129 | metonymy | when you describe something using a symbol associated with that thing | 85 | |
| 7755095874 | synecdoche | when you describe something with something that is a part of the thing you are describing | 86 | |
| 7761995792 | zeugma | when you have one verb but 2 contrasting direct objects (figurative and literal meanings) | 87 |
