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| 7215332150 | aporia | a device writers use to express doubt about an idea | 0 | |
| 7215332151 | apostrophe | addressing or speaking to an abstract quality or some non-human entity | 1 | |
| 7215332152 | appositive | a noun or pronoun placed beside another noun or pronoun to identify or describe it | 2 | |
| 7215332153 | archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things are similar ex: the jock, the nerd, etc. | 3 | |
| 7215332154 | argument | a spoken, written, or visual text that expresses a point of view with use of evidence, to discover a form of truth | 4 | |
| 7215332155 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 5 | |
| 7215332156 | begging the question | form of logical fallacy where an argument is assumed to be true without any evidence | 6 | |
| 7215332157 | caricature | an exaggerated portrayal of one's features | 7 | |
| 7215332158 | chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | 8 | |
| 7215332159 | circumlocution | talking around a subject | 9 | |
| 7215332160 | clause | a grammatical unit that contains a subject and a verb | 10 | |
| 7215332161 | colloquiallism | an expression used in informal talk, but not appropriate in formal talk ex: "hey y'all" | 11 | |
| 7215332162 | comma splice | two sentences joined incorrectly by a comma instead of a conjunction, period, or semicolon | 12 | |
| 7215332163 | complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause | 13 | |
| 7215332164 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more independent clauses | 14 | |
| 7215332165 | conceit | an extended metaphor | 15 | |
| 7215332166 | concession | when a writer admits a point given by the opposition may be true | 16 | |
| 7215332167 | concrete | real or solid, not abstract | 17 | |
| 7215332168 | conjunctive adverb | a type of adverb that joins together two clauses ex: accordingly, finally, however, indeed, etc. | 18 | |
| 7215332169 | connotation | the implied or suggested meaning connected with a word | 19 |
