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| 4956636473 | aphorism | a wise or clever statement | 0 | |
| 4956639179 | rhetorical question | a question not meant to be answered | 1 | |
| 4956641498 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 2 | |
| 4956642674 | anecdote | a story told for emphasis | 3 | |
| 4956643964 | allusion | a reference to art, literature or history for the sake of comparison | 4 | |
| 4956646450 | repetition | to repeat the exact same word | 5 | |
| 4956647610 | restatement | to repeat a key idea | 6 | |
| 4956648674 | parallelism | to repeat the same grammatical structure | 7 | |
| 4956650905 | pathos | to evoke sympathy | 8 | |
| 4956651882 | ethos | the author's credibility | 9 | |
| 4956652664 | logos | to appeal to logic or reason | 10 | |
| 4956653208 | rhetoric | the art of writing or speaking persuasively | 11 | |
| 4956654726 | simile | a comparison using like or as | 12 | |
| 4956655699 | metaphor | a comparison between two dissimilar things | 13 | |
| 4956656833 | figurative language | language that is sensory rich and not to be taken literally | 14 | |
| 4956709589 | irony | a verbal expression in which words mean something contrary to what is actually said | 15 | |
| 4956711482 | personificatioin | given human characteristics to non-human objects | 16 | |
| 4956714786 | imagery | language that appeals to five senses | 17 | |
| 4956715941 | juxtaposition | putting two things closely together to compare or contrast ex:"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness," | 18 | |
| 4956723831 | literary allusion | a reference to a person, place or thing in previous literature | 19 | |
| 4956725187 | repetition | repeating word, ideas for effect and emphasis | 20 | |
| 4956728645 | symbolism | an abject represents an idea | 21 | |
| 4956752304 | argument | the culmination of the author's persuasive claims that lead to overall atgument | 22 | |
| 4956753847 | audience | specific group of people who the speaker intends to receive and act upon message | 23 | |
| 4956756519 | claim | to say something is true when there are people who may disagree | 24 | |
| 4956758172 | diction | style of speaking or writing depending upon word choice | 25 | |
| 4956759985 | purpose | that the author hopes to accomplish | 26 | |
| 4956764819 | speaker/ author | who is talking/ writing | 27 | |
| 4956766719 | anaphora | repetition of a word or expression at the BEGINNING of successive phrase, sentences for rhetorical/ poetic effect (when weighed down by the pains of old age, when the head inclines, when the beginning and ending...) | 28 | |
| 4956772091 | epistrophe | repetition of word or expression at the END of the phrases, sentence of rhetorical/poetic effect (as Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people") | 29 | |
| 4956783416 | exigence | the reason why the author writes about a topic | 30 | |
| 4956785718 | function | the purpose of a particular word, sentence in relation to the text before it and after it. examining the author's deliberate choices in relating to topice | 31 | |
| 4956791276 | telegraphic sentence | a short sentence, 6 words, carries special emphasis and ties to author's message and purpose | 32 |
