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| 13681748732 | alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables Ex. She sells sea shells by the sea shore | 0 | |
| 13681748733 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event Ex. If it doesn't stop raining, I'm going to build an ark. | 1 | |
| 13681748734 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things Ex. What strings are to a guitar, love is to life. | 2 | |
| 13681748735 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses Ex. Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters | 3 | |
| 13681748736 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting event Ex. John was missing, his family after he moved across the country, but thanks to Facebook, he could stay connected | 4 | |
| 13681748737 | annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 13681748738 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast Ex. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country | 6 | |
| 13681748739 | antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas Ex. Love is an Ideal thing, marriage a Real thing. | 7 | |
| 13681748740 | aphorism | a short, astute statement of a general truth Ex. A penny saved is a penny earned | 8 | |
| 13681748741 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun Ex. Keith, the boy in rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched | 9 | |
| 13681748742 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language Ex. "Thee", "thou", "hither", "mark" | 10 | |
| 13681748743 | argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence | 11 | |
| 13681748744 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the realtionship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 12 | |
| 13681748745 | assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. | 13 | |
| 13681748746 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 14 | |
| 13681748747 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 15 | |
| 13681748748 | attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through their tone | 16 | |
| 13681748749 | audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 17 | |
| 13681748750 | authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 18 | |
| 13681748751 | bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 19 | |
| 13681748752 | cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 20 | |
| 13681748753 | claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 21 | |
| 13681748754 | close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text | 22 | |
| 13681748755 | colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 23 | |
| 13681748756 | common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 24 | |
| 13681748757 | complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 25 | |
| 13681748758 | concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding | 26 | |
| 13681748759 | connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 27 | |
| 13681748760 | context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 28 | |
| 13681748761 | coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 29 | |
| 13681748762 | counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 30 | |
| 13681748763 | credible | worth of belief, trustworthy | 31 | |
| 13681748764 | cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
| 13681748765 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a sentence | 33 | |
| 13681748766 | deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 13681748767 | denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 35 | |
| 13681748768 | dialectal journal | A double-column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in the other column. | 36 | |
| 13681748769 | diction | word choice | 37 | |
| 13681748770 | documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 38 | |
| 13681748771 | elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 39 | |
| 13681748772 | epigram | a brief witty statement | 40 | |
| 13681748773 | ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 41 | |
| 13681748774 | explication of text | Explanation of a text's meaning through an analysis of all of its constituent parts, including the literary devices used; also called close reading | 42 | |
| 13681748775 | facts | information that is true or demonstrable | 43 | |
| 13681748776 | figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 44 | |
| 13681748777 | figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning | 45 | |
| 13681748778 | fragment | A word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence | 46 | |
| 13681748779 | hortatory | urging, or strongly encouraging | 47 | |
| 13681748780 | hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 48 | |
| 13681748781 | imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 49 | |
| 13681748782 | imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands | 50 | |
| 13681748783 | induction | reasoning from specific to general | 51 | |
| 13681748784 | inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 52 | |
| 13681748785 | irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 53 | |
| 13681748786 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 54 | |
| 13681748787 | logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 55 | |
| 13681748788 | metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 56 | |
| 13681748789 | metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 57 | |
| 13681748790 | modifier | A word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or describes another word, phrase, or clause | 58 | |
| 13681748791 | narration | Retelling an event or series of events | 59 | |
| 13681748792 | nominalization | Turning a verb or adjective into a noun | 60 | |
| 13681748793 | occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 61 | |
| 13681748794 | omniscient narrator | An all-knowing, usually third-person narrator. | 62 | |
| 13681748795 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | 63 | |
| 13681748796 | pacing | The relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented. | 64 | |
| 13681748797 | paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 65 | |
| 13681748798 | parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 66 | |
| 13681748799 | parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 67 | |
| 13681748800 | pathos | A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 68 | |
| 13681748801 | periodic sentence | A sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause | 69 | |
| 13681748802 | persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 70 | |
| 13681748803 | personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | 71 | |
| 13681748804 | polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. | 72 | |
| 13681748805 | polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 73 | |
| 13681748806 | premise;major,minor | Two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise | 74 | |
| 13681748807 | pronoun | A word used to replace a noun or noun phrase. | 75 | |
| 13681748808 | propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 76 | |
| 13681748809 | purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 77 | |
| 13681748810 | refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 78 | |
| 13681748811 | rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion | 79 | |
| 13681748812 | rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation | 80 | |
| 13681748813 | rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer | 81 | |
| 13681748814 | rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 82 | |
| 13681748815 | satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 83 | |
| 13681748816 | scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 84 | |
| 13681748817 | sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 85 | |
| 13681748818 | sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 86 | |
| 13681748819 | simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 87 | |
| 13681748820 | simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 88 | |
| 13681748821 | source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 89 | |
| 13681748822 | speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 90 | |
| 13681748823 | straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | 91 | |
| 13681748824 | style | The distinctive qualitiy of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 92 | |
| 13681748825 | subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 93 | |
| 13681748826 | subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 94 | |
| 13681748827 | subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 95 | |
| 13681748828 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise | 96 | |
| 13681748829 | syntax | sentence structure | 97 | |
| 13681748830 | synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 98 | |
| 13681748831 | thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 99 | |
| 13681748832 | thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit | 100 | |
| 13681748833 | tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 101 | |
| 13681748834 | topic sentence | A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis. | 102 | |
| 13681748835 | trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 103 | |
| 13681748836 | understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 104 | |
| 13681748837 | voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 105 | |
| 13681748838 | zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence | 106 |
