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| 12354868347 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 12354868348 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 1 | |
| 12354868349 | Anecdote | a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 2 | |
| 12354868350 | Antecedent | a word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (especially a following relative pronoun) refers | 3 | |
| 12354868351 | Aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth | 4 | |
| 12469927625 | Assertion | a stylistic approach or technique involving a strong declaration, a forceful or confident and positive statement regarding a belief or a fact | 5 | |
| 12354868352 | Caricature | a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect | 6 | |
| 12354868353 | Cliche | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought | 7 | |
| 12354868354 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation | 8 | |
| 12354868355 | Coherence | the quality of being logical and consistent | 9 | |
| 12469957603 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 10 | |
| 12354868356 | Denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word | 11 | |
| 12354868357 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 12 | |
| 12354868358 | Figurative language | uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful | 13 | |
| 12354868359 | Foreshadowing | be a warning or indication of (a future event) | 14 | |
| 12354868360 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work | 15 | |
| 12354868361 | Inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning | 16 | |
| 12354868362 | Invective | insulting, abusive, or highly critical language | 17 | |
| 12354868363 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect | 18 | |
| 12354868364 | Dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play | 19 | |
| 12354868365 | Situational irony | occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead | 20 | |
| 12354868366 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | 21 | |
| 12354868367 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect | 22 | |
| 12354868368 | Malapropism | the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect | 23 | |
| 12354868369 | Mood | a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions | 24 | |
| 12354868370 | Motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition | 25 | |
| 12354868371 | Parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect | 26 | |
| 12354868372 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 27 | |
| 12354868373 | Point of view | the narrator's position in relation to a story being told | 28 | |
| 12354868374 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques | 29 | |
| 12354868375 | Rhetorical appeals | devices in rhetoric that classify the speaker's appeal to the audience | 30 | |
| 12354868376 | Ethos | an appeal to ethics | 31 | |
| 12354868377 | Logos | appeal to logic | 32 | |
| 12354868378 | Pathos | appeal to emotion | 33 | |
| 12354868379 | Rhetorical triangle | method to organize the three elements of rhetoric | 34 | |
| 12354868380 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 35 | |
| 12354868381 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 36 | |
| 12354868382 | Tone | an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience | 37 | |
| 12354868383 | Transition | words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences, and paragraphs | 38 | |
| 12354868384 | Voice | the individual style in which a certain author writes his or her works | 39 | |
| 12354868385 | Wit | form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny | 40 | |
| 12354868386 | Ambiguity | a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning | 41 | |
| 12354868387 | Apostrophe | when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. This third party may be an individual, either present or absent in the scene. It can also be an inanimate object, like a dagger, or an abstract concept, such as death or the sun. | 42 | |
| 12354868388 | Ellipsis | the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues | 43 | |
| 12354868389 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing | 44 | |
| 12354868390 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 45 | |
| 12354868391 | Idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words | 46 | |
| 12354868392 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 47 | |
| 12354868393 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 48 | |
| 12354868394 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 49 | |
| 12354868395 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 50 | |
| 12354868396 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 51 | |
| 12354868397 | Paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true | 52 | |
| 12354868398 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings | 53 | |
| 12354868399 | Rhetorical question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer | 54 | |
| 12354868400 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | 55 | |
| 12354868401 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 56 | |
| 12354868402 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 57 | |
| 12354868403 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 58 | |
| 12354868404 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 59 | |
| 12354868405 | Antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, | 60 | |
| 12354868406 | Apposition | a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent | 61 | |
| 12354868407 | Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 62 | |
| 12354868408 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 63 | |
| 12354868409 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | 64 | |
| 12354868410 | Consonance | the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity | 65 | |
| 12354868411 | Isocolon | a rhetorical device that involves a succession of sentences, phrases, and clauses of grammatically equal length | 66 | |
| 12354868412 | Parallelism | a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure | 67 | |
| 12354868413 | Polysyndeton | a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect | 68 | |
| 12354868414 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 69 | |
| 12354868415 | Subordinate clause | a clause, typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause | 70 | |
| 12354868416 | Verbal irony | when words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean | 71 | |
| 12354868417 | Deductive reasoning | reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case | 72 | |
| 12354868418 | Inductive reasoning | a type of logical thinking that involves forming generalizations based on specific incidents you've experienced, observations you've made, or facts you know to be true or false | 73 | |
| 12354868419 | Enthymeme | an argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated | 74 | |
| 12354868420 | Syllogism | a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true | 75 | |
| 12354868421 | Ad hominem | a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself | 76 | |
| 12354868422 | Appeal to ignorance | sserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true | 77 | |
| 12354868423 | Appeal to pity | someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponent's feelings of pity or guilt | 78 | |
| 12354868424 | Argument from false authority | When a person making a claim is presented as an expert who should be trusted when his or her expertise is not in the area being discussed | 79 | |
| 12354868425 | Bandwagon appeals | The argument that since something is popular or everybody is doing it, so should you | 80 | |
| 12354868426 | Begging the question | occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it | 81 | |
| 12354868427 | Dogmatism | the tendency to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true, without consideration of evidence or the opinions of others | 82 | |
| 12354868428 | Equivocation | Using an ambiguous term in more than one sense, thus making an argument misleading | 83 | |
| 12354868429 | False dichotomy | something is falsely claimed to be an "either/or" situation, when in fact there is at least one additional option | 84 | |
| 12354868430 | Faulty analogy | assuming that because two things are alike in one or more respects, they are necessarily alike in some other respect | 85 | |
| 12354868431 | Hasty generalization | a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence | 86 | |
| 12354868432 | Non sequitur | a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement | 87 | |
| 12354868433 | Post hoc | occurring or done after the event, especially with reference to the fallacious assumption that the occurrence in question has a logical relationship with the event it follows | 88 | |
| 12354868434 | Red herring | something, especially a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting | 89 | |
| 12354868435 | Scare tactics | a strategy intended to manipulate public opinion about a particular issue by arousing fear or alarm | 90 | |
| 12354868436 | Slippery slope | an idea or course of action which will lead to something unacceptable, wrong, or disastrous | 91 | |
| 12354868437 | Straw man | an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument | 92 | |
| 12354868438 | Argument | a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong | 93 | |
| 12354868439 | Description | a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event | 94 | |
| 12354868440 | Narration | the action or process of narrating a story | 95 | |
| 12354868441 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory | 96 | |
| 12354868442 | Cause and effect analysis | A method leading to the listing of all possible reasons and outcomes associated with a particular problem or situation | 97 | |
| 12354868443 | Comparison and contrast | a rhetorical or literary device in which a writer compares or contrasts two people, places, things, or ideas | 98 | |
| 12354868444 | Definition | an exact statement or description of the nature, scope, or meaning of something | 99 | |
| 12354868445 | Division and classification | groups objects, people, or events into categories by the characteristics that they share | 100 | |
| 12354868446 | Exemplification | a mode of symbolization characterized by the relation between a sample and what it refers to | 101 | |
| 12354868447 | Process analysis | a method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something | 102 |
