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| 4202184951 | Rhetoric | The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively. (Function,Development Strategies, Devices, Questions, Effectiveness, Emphasis) | 0 | |
| 4202197786 | Understatement | irony which deliberately represents something as much less than it really is making to seem more important than it really is (also known as litotes) | 1 | |
| 4202207064 | (Extended) Metaphor | a comparison between two things that is carried through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas | 2 | |
| 4202214480 | Simile | figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two unlike things using words: like, as, than... | 3 | |
| 4202217621 | Allusion | reference to something famous in history, religion, mythology, or literature | 4 | |
| 4202220475 | Annecdote | Short account of an incident | 5 | |
| 4202244013 | Qualify | to describe by specifying the characteristics or qualities of; characterize | 6 | |
| 4202248627 | Onomatopoeia | words that sound like what it is describing | 7 | |
| 4202254753 | Antithesis | direct contrast; opposition | 8 | |
| 4202259323 | Personification | to assign human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas | 9 | |
| 4202262980 | Alliteration | beginning several words with the same sound. Alliterative - having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | 10 | |
| 4202265765 | Paradox | a statement which contradicts itself but is in fact true | 11 | |
| 4202269317 | Modes of discourse | The four traditional modes of discourse are narration, description, exposition, and argument. | 12 | |
| 4202274074 | Narration | Is story telling. It involves relating a series of events, usually in a chronological order. It usually reserves the title "story" for fiction. If the events actually happened, the writing is given another name such as biography, autobiography, history, after action report, or newspaper report. | 13 | |
| 4202278486 | Description | tells what things are like according to the five senses. But description often tries to do more than to enable readers to visualize characters, settings, and actions. It may also try to evoke a mood or atmosphere, and this is aided by the use of simile and metaphor. | 14 | |
| 4202283887 | Exposition | is the kind of writing that is used to inform. This mode of writing has several subtypes, the most common being process analysis, definition, classification and division, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solution. These are distinguished by purpose, as the names indicate, but also by structure or organization. | 15 | |
| 4202285975 | Argument | The purpose of argument is to convince through logic. An argument is based on a belief or opinion that the writer holds as true. The statement of this opinion is called a "thesis." If the reader accepts the reasons and the evidence, then he should agree with the thesis. | 16 | |
| 4202290811 | Persuasion | Argument and persuasion differ in two primary ways. The first is the intent. While the intent of argument is to present reasons and evidence to elicit logical agreement, the purpose of persuasion goes beyond this to get the reader to act on his belief. The second way the two differ is in the methods that a writer uses to win the assent of his readers. Both argument and persuasion make use of logos. But persuasion also employs pathos which is proof based on motives and emotions. | 17 | |
| 4202298949 | Analogy | similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar | 18 | |
| 4202301465 | Parallelism | the use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases | 19 | |
| 4202305886 | Parallel structure | using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance | 20 | |
| 4202307858 | Allegory | The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form | 21 | |
| 4202310396 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person or object | 22 | |
| 4202313330 | Subordinate clause/Dependent clause | A clause that cannot stand alone as a full sentence and functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence | 23 | |
| 4202319586 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | 24 | |
| 4202321650 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power. | 25 | |
| 4202325609 | Appeals to authority | By using an authority, the argument is relying upon testimony, not facts. A testimony is not an argument, and it is not a fact. | 26 | |
| 4202329622 | Declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement or declares something | 27 | |
| 4202339304 | Sentence Types (simple) | a sentence having no coordinate or subordinate clauses. "The cat purred." | 28 | |
| 4202344686 | Sentence Types (Complex) | a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause. | 29 | |
| 4202354009 | Sentence Types (compound) | a sentence of two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by a conjunction or conjunctions, as The problem was difficult, but I finally found the answer. | 30 | |
| 4202355824 | Elegy/ Elegiac | a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person | 31 | |
| 4202360470 | Periodic Sentence | a sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end; for example, Despite heavy winds and nearly impenetrable ground fog, the plane landed safely. | 32 | |
| 4202366475 | Euphamism | the act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive | 33 | |
| 4202371710 | Passive Voice | a verb, or form of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action by the agent. The picture is admired by all. | 34 | |
| 4202379703 | Antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to, as the children in, The teacher asked the children where they were going. | 35 | |
| 4202381773 | Oxymoron | a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. | 36 | |
| 4202385446 | Ambiguity | doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards to interpretation | 37 | |
| 4202391854 | Prepositional Phrase | a phrase that consists of a preposition and its object and has adjectival or adverbial value, such as in the house in the people in the house or by him in The book was written by him. | 38 | |
| 4202395129 | Satire | a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit | 39 | |
| 4202400133 | Colloquial | pertaining to words or expressions more suitable for speech than writing; in informal, conversational style | 40 | |
| 4202402758 | Litotes | a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem | 41 | |
| 4202405446 | Straw Man | an argument (usually weak) or opponent set up so as to be easily refuted or defeated | 42 | |
| 4202410316 | Synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword) | 43 | |
| 4202413334 | Denotation | most specific or direct meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings | 44 | |
| 4202415670 | Inversion | an interchange of position of adjacent objects in a sequence, especially a change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its subject | 45 | |
| 4202419710 | Ad Hominem | appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason: Debaters should avoid ad hominem arguments that question their opponents' motives. | 46 | |
| 4202424031 | Pronoun | a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase | 47 | |
| 4202427305 | Ad hoc | used for the particular end or case at hand without consideration of wider application (done by specialists...dentists...) | 48 | |
| 4202430774 | Parody | a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule | 49 | |
| 4202433008 | Participial phrase | The participial phrase includes the participle and the object of the participle or any words modified by or related to the participle. The car sliding out of control toward the building is going to hit the window. SLIDING modifies the CAR. The verb is IS GOING. | 50 | |
| 4202435443 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton | 51 | |
| 4202439065 | Didatic | intended to instruct; morally instructive | 52 | |
| 4202441663 | Circular Reasoning | a use of reason in which the premises depends on or is equivalent to the conclusion, a method of false logic by which "this is used to prove that, and that is used to prove this"; also called circular logic | 53 | |
| 4202445243 | Begging the question | to assume an answer to an unstated question or premise | 54 | |
| 4202451990 | Juxtaposition | the state of being placed or situated side by side for contrasting effect | 55 | |
| 6344818974 | Ellipses | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods | 56 | |
| 6344821074 | chiasmus | A rhetorical device in which certain words, sounds, concepts, or syntactic structures are reversed or repeated in reverse order. Structure may also create or heighten paradox. (ex: "Fair is foul and foul is fair." "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.") | 57 | |
| 6344829693 | anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 58 | |
| 6344831200 | epistrophe | repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences | 59 | |
| 6344876702 | anadiplosis | Figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase. | 60 | |
| 6344878515 | syllepsis | the use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies/governs. "The ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen." | 61 | |
| 6344883790 | parenthesis | Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interupts the nomal syntatical flow of the sentence, thereby sending the thought off on an important tangent that has a pronounced rhetorical effect. Often involves literal, but not always, there are other ways to insert a comment into a sentence. One might use commas, dashes or for example. This mark, however, is off on a tangent, cut off from the thrust of the sentence and grammatically unrelated to the sentence. | 62 | |
| 6344889898 | polysyndenton | The deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis - to highlight quantity or mass of detail, or to create a flowing, continuous sentence pattern | 63 | |
| 6344972426 | loose sentence | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | 64 | |
| 6344975942 | isocolon | Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but in length | 65 |
