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| 10751514085 | Allusion | Reference to a famous historical, Biblical, mythological, or literary figure or event. | 0 | |
| 10751518553 | Qualifier | Words or phrases that limit the scope of a claim | 1 | |
| 10751526863 | Pathos | Persuasion through appeals to the audience's emotions | 2 | |
| 10751531883 | Syllogism | In formal logic, a structure of deductive logic in which correctly formed major and minor premises lead to a necessary conclusion | 3 | |
| 10751544419 | Logos | Persuasion by means of logic or reasoning | 4 | |
| 10751548970 | Arrangement | Form/Structure/Organization | 5 | |
| 10751551397 | Argument | A spoken, written, or visual text that expresses a point of view; the central point a text is making; a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that that an action or idea is right or wrong | 6 | |
| 10751564052 | Claim | A statement that asserts a belief or truth | 7 | |
| 10751571642 | Mediated Audience | An audience that is not physically present, but that is affected by the speaker's message | 8 | |
| 10751576639 | Ethos | Persuasion through convincing the audience of one's moral character | 9 | |
| 10751582368 | Exergense | What prompts the speaker to speak at this particular point in time | 10 | |
| 10751586348 | Metaphor | A comparison between two objects without using the words like or as | 11 | |
| 10751595978 | Deductive reasoning | Reasoning from general to specific | 12 | |
| 10751601163 | Inductive reasoning | Reasoning from specific to general | 13 | |
| 10751606377 | Simile | A comparison between two items in using the words like or as | 14 | |
| 10751608918 | Purpose | What the speaker wants the audience to feel while listening; what he/she wants the audience to do after listening | 15 | |
| 10751615142 | Immediate audience | The audience that is physically present when a speech is delivered | 16 | |
| 10751617757 | Form | The genre or type of text | 17 | |
| 10751619796 | Analyse | Identifying the features of a text and explaining how the author uses these to develop the meaning or to achieve a particular effect | 18 | |
| 10751626015 | Tone | The writer's attitude toward his/her subject | 19 | |
| 10751630969 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant letters (or sounds) in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases. | 20 | |
| 10751648063 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs | 21 | |
| 10751652816 | Anecdote | Short and amusing or interesting account depicting a real incident or person used to support a speaker's argument. | 22 | |
| 10751661507 | Ad Homienm | Logical fallacy in which a writer attacks an opponent's character | 23 | |
| 10751665755 | Expletive | Figure of emphasis in which a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal speech, is used to lend emphasis to the words on either side of the figure | 24 | |
| 10751680970 | Asyndeton | Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or causes | 25 | |
| 10751686253 | Oxymoron | Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory | 26 | |
| 10751696787 | Personifcation | A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics | 27 | |
| 10751701970 | Antithesis | Rhetorical strategy in which contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences | 28 | |
| 10751711935 | Paraellism | Making two or more words, phrases, or clauses equal in part of speech or grammatical structure | 29 | |
| 10751720121 | Non sequitur | An argument in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises | 30 | |
| 10751724643 | Hyperbole | Intentional and extreme exaggeration | 31 | |
| 10751731418 | Polysyndeton | Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses. | 32 | |
| 10751739603 | Enumeration | Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something. | 33 | |
| 10751750170 | Rhetorical Question | A question that is asked merely for effect with no obvious answer expected | 34 | |
| 10751755947 | Diction | Word Choice | 35 | |
| 10751755948 | Imagery | Word pictures designed to appeal to the senses | 36 | |
| 10751760625 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may actually express some truth | 37 | |
| 10751765943 | Syntax | Sentence length, type, and structure | 38 | |
| 10751767258 | Concession | Acknowledgement of other points of view in an argument by yielding or compromising in some way | 39 |
