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| 4600068291 | scheme | an artful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence | 0 | |
| 4871395745 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words | 1 | |
| 4871400038 | Assonance | vowel repetition | 2 | |
| 4871401096 | Consonance | consonant repetition | 3 | |
| 4871402216 | Anaphora | repetition of words or words in successive clauses at the beginning of sentences or clauses | 4 | |
| 4871407837 | Parallelism | to give two or more parts of sentences a similar form so as to give the whole a definite pattern | 5 | |
| 4871412196 | Antithesis | a counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition. In setting the opposite, brings a contrast in the meaning and obvious contrast in the expression | 6 | |
| 4871419547 | Asyndeton | a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses | 7 | |
| 4871424405 | Polysyndeton | scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately placed consecutively with a series of commas | 8 | |
| 4871429182 | Periphrasis | the use of a longer expression to express a common/shorter subject or idea | 9 | |
| 4871430789 | Tropes | play with the meaning of words; more figurative devices | 10 | |
| 4871434348 | Metonymy | a substitution that conveys a higher idea | 11 | |
| 4871435262 | Analogy | inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others | 12 | |
| 4871441969 | Symbolism | the art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning | 13 | |
| 4871446152 | Allegory | an extended metaphor (can be characters or objects) that is meant to represent a moral/lesson/theme | 14 | |
| 4871452656 | Motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts); especially: a dominant idea or central theme | 15 | |
| 4871499513 | Irony | opposite of what is expected | 16 | |
| 4871501161 | Oxymoron | using two terms together, that normally contradict each other | 17 | |
| 4871502973 | Paradox | use of apparently contradictory ideas to point out some underlying truth | 18 | |
| 4871515726 | Juxtaposition | placing two or more ideas in close proximity to convey a point | 19 | |
| 4871523435 | Pun | play on words | 20 | |
| 4871524677 | Onomatopoeia | words used to describe a sound | 21 | |
| 4871525855 | Sarcasm | usually for word play can be offensive sometimes | 22 | |
| 4871530292 | Understatement | minimize much more serious situation | 23 | |
| 4871532272 | Contradiction | says one thing, then another, and they both cancel each other out | 24 | |
| 4871535415 | Aphorism | a statement of common truth and unknown authership | 25 | |
| 4871537027 | Allusion | reference to history, culture, literature, religion | 26 | |
| 4871540387 | Apostrophe | addressing a thing, an abstraction or a person not present | 27 | |
| 4871542648 | Anecdote | a story told from personal experience | 28 | |
| 4871544167 | Epigraph | brief motto or quotation set at the beginning of a text to suggest its meaning | 29 | |
| 4945895623 | rhetoric | study of the effect of language | 30 | |
| 4945896196 | rhetorical mode | form the rhetoric takes on the class i.e. AP Lang is nonfiction | 31 | |
| 4945898421 | rhetorical question | said to prove a point,no real answer, used as sarcasm | 32 | |
| 4945900664 | diction | word choice | 33 | |
| 4945900665 | syntax | sentence structure | 34 | |
| 4945901215 | laconic syntax | short sentences | 35 | |
| 4945905688 | varied syntax | a little of every type of syntax | 36 | |
| 4945907319 | elongated syntax | long sentences | 37 | |
| 4945910294 | periodic sentence | subject of sentence is somewhere in the middle | 38 | |
| 4945911744 | declarative sentence | boring, usual sentences | 39 | |
| 4945913315 | tone | author's attitude towards the topic (established through diction) | 40 | |
| 4945916044 | stylistic devices | words learned in elementary | 41 | |
| 4945917654 | rhetorical triangle/rhetorical appeals | ethos, pathos, logos | 42 | |
| 4945918101 | ethos | use of morals, ethics, and values in an argument | 43 | |
| 4945918877 | logos | use of logic, data, examples, statistics, and/or defense in an argument | 44 | |
| 4945921181 | pathos | use of emotion in an argument | 45 | |
| 4945923451 | qualitative argument | pathos | 46 | |
| 4945925012 | claim | the thesis or main idea | 47 | |
| 4945925647 | assertion | a point the author makes, an argument | 48 | |
| 4945926186 | claim statement | one sentence that contains: author's name, text title, and the claim | 49 | |
| 4945928744 | effect | how the audience/reader is supposed to feel, what audience is supposed to do, reflect on, or change | 50 | |
| 5592475679 | euphenism | lighter way of phrasing a negative/serious idea ("hitched" instead of married | 51 | |
| 5592479746 | idioms | phrases that a culture excepts the meaning of | 52 | |
| 5592483440 | colloquialism | regional dialect (pop and soda) | 53 | |
| 5592485206 | slang | not standard form of language (English) | 54 | |
| 5592489871 | pedantic | scholarly (long words everywhere) | 55 | |
| 5592491492 | jargon | language particularly to a profession or field | 56 | |
| 5592492896 | didactic | tone or diction is educational and informational (textbook) | 57 | |
| 5649683497 | quantitative argument | ethos | 58 |
