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| 5387158141 | Cumulative (Loose) Sentence | begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause. These phrases or clauses add information to the main or independent clause. Ex.) He might consider paying the higher fees at a private university, if the teacher/ student ratio is small, if the teachers are highly qualified, and if the job placement rate is high. | 0 | |
| 5387158142 | Periodic Sentence | a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense. Ex.) Unable to join the others at the dance because of my sprained ankle, I went to a movie. |  | 1 |
| 5387158143 | Litotes | a figure of speech in which a negative statement is used to affirm a positive statement. Ex.) When asked how someone is doing, that person might respond, "I'm not bad." In fact, this means that the person is doing fine or even quite well. The extent to which the litotes means the opposite is dependent on context. The person saying "I'm not bad," may have recently gone through a divorce and is trying to reassure his friend by saying that things are okay. | 2 | |
| 5387158145 | Ethos | an appeal to ethics and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. | 3 | |
| 5387158146 | Pathos | an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. | 4 | |
| 5387158147 | Logos | an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. | 5 | |
| 5387158158 | Diction | a speaker's choice of words. Analysis of diction looks at these choices and what they add to the speaker's message. | 6 | |
| 5387158159 | Simile | a figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using words like, as, or as though. Ex.) Zoos are pretty, contained, and accessible...Sort of like a biological Crabtree & Evelyn basket selected with you in mind. |  | 7 |
| 5387158160 | Metaphor | figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. Ex.) And if a beachhead of a cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion. | 8 | |
| 5387158161 | Anaphora | the intentional repetition of beginning clauses in order to create an artistic effect. Ex.) We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on the end. We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. |  | 9 |
| 5387158162 | Epistrophe | repetition of a concluding word or word endings. When the epistrophe focuses on sounds rather than entire words, we normally call it rhyme. Epistrophe is an example of a rhetorical scheme. Ex.) "He's learning fast, are you learning fast?" |  | 10 |
| 5387158163 | Synecdoche | a rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part. Ex.) "Twenty eyes watched our move." "All hands on deck." | 11 | |
| 5387158164 | Rhetoric | Aristotle defined rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." In other words, it is the art of finding ways of persuading an audience. | 12 | |
| 5387158166 | Allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) to to a work of art. Ex.) Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah. | 13 | |
| 5387158167 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point. Ex.) My first and last name together generally served the same purpose as a high brick wall. | 14 | |
| 5387158168 | Personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. Ex.) ...with history the final judge of our deeds... | 15 | |
| 5387158169 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. Ex.) Let us go forth to lead the land we love. |  | 16 |
| 5387158170 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. Ex.) We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. | 17 | |
| 5387158172 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. Ex.) Let both sides explore... Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals...Let both sides seek to invoke...Let both sides unite to heed... | 18 | |
| 5387158173 | Antithesis | opposition, or contrast or ideas or words in a parallel construction. Ex.) We shall support any friend, oppose any foe. | 19 | |
| 5387158175 | Rhetorical Question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. Ex.) Are you stupid? | 20 | |
| 5387158176 | Chiasmus | the reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. Ex.) He went to the country, the country went to him. |  | 21 |
| 5387158186 | Contrast/ Comparison | a method of presenting similarities and differences between or among at least two persons, places, things, ideas, etc. may be organized by: Subject by subject Point by point Combination | 22 | |
| 5387158191 | Narrative | a story | 23 | |
| 5387158198 | Non sequitor | a fallacy of argument in which claims, reasons, or warrants fail to connect logically; one point doesn't follow from another. | 24 | |
| 5387306637 | aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth ex. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" | 25 | |
| 5387332040 | apostrophe | when a speaker breaks off from talking to one group and addresses another group. | 26 | |
| 5396712124 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 27 | |
| 5396717376 | attitude | a way of thinking and/or feeling about something | 28 | |
| 5396725588 | claim | a person's position of an issue | 29 | |
| 5396729892 | colloquial | ordinary or familiar language; not formal or literary. | 30 | |
| 5396736209 | conceit | fanciful expression in writing | 31 | |
| 5396742259 | connotation/denotation | connotation: feelings that certain words evoke Denotation: the dictionary definition of the words. | 32 | |
| 5396748688 | consonance | repeating consonant sound | 33 | |
| 5396751184 | dialect | spelling, sounds, grammar, pronunciation of a specific group of people | 34 | |
| 5396764031 | didactic | a novel, poem, or literary work that aims to teach us something | 35 | |
| 5396773712 | elegy | literature that morns the dead | 36 | |
| 5396777561 | euphemism | substitution of a word that is deemed too harsh | 37 | |
| 5396786719 | extended metaphor | an unlikely comparison that is throughout a passage | 38 | |
| 5396789759 | figurative language | figures of speech meant to be more effective, persuasive, and impacting | 39 | |
| 5396800674 | flashback | to show the past | 40 | |
| 5396804230 | genre | category of literary composition | 41 | |
| 5396808228 | homily | religious discourse | 42 | |
| 5396815808 | imagery | visual description | 43 | |
| 5396826698 | inference | guess | 44 | |
| 5396829078 | verbal irony | irony of a person says or writes one thing and means another | 45 | |
| 5396833419 | situational irony | irony of actions have an effect that is the opposite of what was intended | 46 | |
| 5396840643 | dramatic irony | irony of when the audience knows something the speaker does not. | 47 | |
| 5396857762 | isocolon | parallel structure in figurative language | 48 | |
| 5396861616 | jargon | slang | 49 | |
| 5396866713 | juxtaposition | contradictory statements | 50 | |
| 5396870721 | metonymy | changing s name. ex: "the crown" meaning the king | 51 | |
| 5396875172 | mode of discourse | rhetorical strategies | 52 | |
| 5396876930 | mood | feeling of the passage | 53 | |
| 5396883417 | onomatopoeia | formation of words by imitation of sounds made by its referent ex: cuckoo | 54 | |
| 5396898904 | oxymoron | contradictory terms (figurative language) | 55 | |
| 5396908518 | paradox | contradictory | 56 | |
| 5396910542 | Point of view | narrator's position in telling story | 57 | |
| 5396917729 | prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form | 58 | |
| 5396923249 | realism | attitude of accepting a situation as it is and preparing to deal with it accordingly | 59 | |
| 5396931084 | sarcasm | use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 60 | |
| 5396934565 | satire | use of irony, or exaggeration to ridicule | 61 | |
| 5396939835 | syle | writer's syntax and diction | 62 | |
| 5396941591 | symbolism | use of symbols to signify ideas | 63 | |
| 5396948803 | sytax | sentence structure | 64 | |
| 5396950415 | theme | the subject of a writing peace. (abstract) | 65 | |
| 5396955910 | tone | writers attitude towards subject | 66 | |
| 5396960468 | voice | individual writing style | 67 | |
| 5396963493 | zeugma | figure of speech when word applies to others in different senses. | 68 |
