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| 4978190264 | antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite | 0 | |
| 4978190265 | aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle | 1 | |
| 4978190266 | appeal to ethos | writers establish their credibility to get us to believe/trust their argument; this demonstrates reliability on the part of the speaker and respect for the audience's ideas. | 2 | |
| 4978190267 | appeal to logos | writers use logic to engage the intellect in reason; these evoke a cognitive response. | 3 | |
| 4978190268 | appeal to pathos | use of emotions to touch a nerve and compel people to action | 4 | |
| 4978190269 | Aristotelian Triangle aka Rhetorical Triangle | the relationship between speaker, text, and reader; and the use of the appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in an argument. | 5 | |
| 4978190270 | atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described | 6 | |
| 4978190271 | caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. | 7 | |
| 4978190272 | deductive reasoning | reaching a probable conclusion based on given premises (moves from a general rule to specifics) | 8 | |
| 4978190273 | exordium | the introductory part of an argument in which a speaker or writer establishes credibility (ethos) and announces the subject and purpose of the discourse | 9 | |
| 4978190274 | generalization | refers to large classes, concepts, groups, and emotions | 10 | |
| 4978190275 | inductive reasoning | forming a generalization from a set of specific examples (moves from specifics to a generalization) | 11 | |
| 4978190276 | inference/infer | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented | 12 | |
| 4978266840 | prose | one of the major divisions of genre, refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms | 13 | |
| 4978268453 | rhetoric | From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | 14 | |
| 4978270615 | style | An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices | 15 | |
| 4978272796 | syllogism | From the Greek for "reckoning together," it's a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called "major" and the second called "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion | 16 | |
| 4978276375 | symbol/symbolism | anything that represents itself and stands for something else | 17 | |
| 4978276376 | natural symbol | objects and occurrences from nature to represent ideas commonly associated with them | 18 | |
| 4978279804 | conventional symbols | those that have been invested with meaning by a group (religious symbols such as a cross or Star of David) | 19 | |
| 4978281542 | literary symbols | found in a variety of works and are more generally recognized | 20 | |
| 4978283260 | theme | the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life | 21 | |
| 4978283261 | thesis | sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position | 22 | |
| 4978287774 | transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas, effectively signal a shift from one idea to another. | 23 | |
| 4978287775 | verismultitude | having the appearance of truthfulness | 24 | |
| 4978289200 | wit | in modern usage, intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights, usually uses terse language that makes a pointed statement | 25 |
