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| 6734452033 | allusion | reference to a famous work, person, place, or event | 0 | |
| 6734455740 | argumentation | writer's attempt to convince his reader of something | 1 | |
| 6734460307 | coherence | clarity and logical adherence to a topic that binds all parts together | 2 | |
| 6734466025 | description | rhetorical mode used to develop an essay whose primary aim is to depict a scene, person, thing, or idea | 3 | |
| 6734474595 | diction | word choice | 4 | |
| 6734477398 | exposition | rhetorical mode used to develop an essay whose primary aim is to explain | 5 | |
| 6734483662 | figurative language | Saying something in a non literal way using various language techniques | 6 | |
| 6734491408 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration | 7 | |
| 6734494130 | imagery | words that give reader a mental picture | 8 | |
| 6734497199 | verbal irony | literally states the opposite of writer's true meaning; a form of spoken sarcasm | 9 | |
| 6734503623 | situational irony | turns out to be the opposite of what both the characters and the readers expected; surprises everyone | 10 | |
| 6734510706 | dramatic irony | facts or events are revealed to the reader but not to certain characters | 11 | |
| 6734517321 | metaphor | compares without using like, as, or than | 12 | |
| 6734520735 | simile | compares using like, as, or than | 13 | |
| 6734522796 | mood | the pervading impression made upon the feelings of the reader | 14 | |
| 6734529369 | narration | an account of events as they happen; firsthand; uses personal pronouns | 15 | |
| 6734534452 | oxymoron | pointedly foolish; "jumbo shrimp" or "biggie smalls" | 16 | |
| 6734540306 | pacing | the speed at which a piece of writing moves | 17 | |
| 6734544651 | paradox | a seemingly untrue statement that is true | 18 | |
| 6734552486 | parallelism or balance | uses same grammatical structure and endings | 19 | |
| 6734556167 | parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comedy or ridicule | 20 | |
| 6734563893 | personification | attributing human qualities to inanimate objects | 21 | |
| 6734568959 | point of view | who is telling the story | 22 | |
| 6734571737 | rhetoric | the art of persuasive language (speaking and writing) | 23 | |
| 6734577984 | rhetorical modes | the ways in which writers write (argumentative, descriptive, narrative, etc.) | 24 | |
| 6734582948 | ad hominem | an argument that attacks the integrity of a character | 25 | |
| 6734592662 | analogy | a comparison (metaphor or simile) | 26 | |
| 6734595214 | anecdote | a story within a story | 27 | |
| 6734597972 | ethos | "Michael Jordan has used these shoes to play and won numerous games; therefore, you should choose these shoes." | 28 | |
| 6734610016 | pathos | "There are more than one million starving dogs and cats in your community who will die this year without your support." | 29 | |
| 6734621772 | logos | "Statistically, there is no way to prove Mr. Doe committed the crime due to insufficient data collected from the DNA testing." | 30 | |
| 6734643300 | colloquialism | "y'all" is used more in the South, whereas, "you guys" is used more in the North | 31 | |
| 6734650152 | conclusion | the final paragraph or paragraphs that sum up an essay and bring it to a close | 32 | |
| 6734655669 | connotation | the emotional implication of a word that defines it in context for a person | 33 | |
| 6734659420 | euphemism | a nice or polite way to say something; "He passed away" or "ethnic cleansing" | 34 | |
| 6734665455 | exemplar | examples of something | 35 | |
| 6734668511 | generalization or logical fallacy | "All blondes are dumb" or "All Asians are smart in Math" | 36 | |
| 6734678054 | red herring | a side issue is used to distract from main argument; "We need more revenue to support our programs, or the government will eliminate them. Children are our future; support the children." | 37 | |
| 6734713561 | sarcasm | bitter language that is meant to hurt, ridicule, or poke fun at something or someone | 38 | |
| 6734719771 | satire | a work that uses bitter language to hurt, ridicule, or poke fun at something or someone | 39 | |
| 6734731589 | tone | the writer's attitude about something | 40 | |
| 6734735412 | understatement | deliberately saying something as less than it is in order to stress its importance | 41 | |
| 6734744558 | allegory | the device of using characters and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to a literal meaning | 42 | |
| 6734755137 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 43 | |
| 6734760736 | aphorism | a statement that reveals a general truth or a moral principle | 44 | |
| 6734767870 | apostrophe | directly addresses an absent or imaginary personified abstraction; talking to death or love | 45 | |
| 6734774593 | cliche | a stale, trite, or overly used expression; "Lovely as a rose" | 46 | |
| 6734781600 | complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses | 47 | |
| 6734790101 | metonymy | substituting a whole for a whole; "The 'big wigs' from the central office are coming today." | 48 | |
| 6734799221 | synecdoche | substituting a part for a whole; "We took our 'wheels' and left." | 49 | |
| 6734805246 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end; "Ecstatic with my AP scores, I let out a loud shout of joy!" | 50 | |
| 6734816910 | rhetorical question | a question posed with no expectation of an answer | 51 | |
| 6734820535 | syntax | the order or grammatical structure of words in a sentence | 52 | |
| 6734828130 | chiasmus | reversal of syntax in a sentence; "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" | 53 | |
| 6734834125 | antithesis | deliberately placing opposites together in a sentence or paragraph for emphasis | 54 | |
| 6734842144 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses | 55 | |
| 6734846136 | compound/complex sentence | a sentence with multiple independent and dependent clauses | 56 | |
| 6734850183 | simple sentence | one independent clause | 57 | |
| 6734852139 | zeugma | a figure of speech where a word applies to multiple parts of the sentence in different ways; "The thief stole my wallet and my heart." | 58 | |
| 6734873236 | onomatopoeia | sound words | 59 |
