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| 4806948797 | Active Voice | When the subject of the sentence performs the action. ex: "Anthony drove while Toni searched for the house." | 0 | |
| 4806948798 | Passive voice | When the subject of the sentence receives the action. ex: "The car was driven by Anthony." | 1 | |
| 4806948799 | Allusion | An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar. | 2 | |
| 4806948800 | Anecdote | A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |  | 3 |
| 4806948801 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 4806948802 | Comic relief | A humorous scene or speech intended to lighten the mood |  | 5 |
| 4806948803 | Diction | An author's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning and tone. |  | 6 |
| 4806948804 | Colloquial | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation. Conversational; informal in language |  | 7 |
| 4806948805 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. |  | 8 |
| 4806948806 | Connotation | Rather than the dictionary definition (denotation), the associations suggested by a word. Implied meaning rather than literal meaning. ex: "policeman," "cop," and "The Man" all denote the same literal meaning of police officer, but each has a different connotation. |  | 9 |
| 4806948807 | Denotation | The literal dictionary definition of a word |  | 10 |
| 4806948808 | Jargon | Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand |  | 11 |
| 4806948809 | Vernacular | 1. Language or dialect of a particular country. 2. Language or dialect of a regional clan or group. 3. Plain everyday speech |  | 12 |
| 4806948810 | Didactic | Intended to teach/instruct |  | 13 |
| 4806948811 | Adage | A proverb, wise saying with a lesson. ex: "A rolling stone gathers no moss." |  | 14 |
| 4806948812 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. ex: "Animal Farm" by George Orwell |  | 15 |
| 4806948813 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. ex: "God helps them that help themselves." ex: "A watched pot never boils." |  | 16 |
| 4806948814 | Ellipsis | Omission of words from a text; mark used to indicate an omission (when the meaning can be understood without them) |  | 17 |
| 4806948815 | Euphemism | A polite or vague word or phrase used to replace another word or phrase that is thought of as too direct or rude. Sometimes used to exaggerate correctness to add humour. ex: "Physically challenged for crippled" ex: "Vertically challenged for short." |  | 18 |
| 4806948816 | Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 19 |
| 4806948817 | Literal Language | A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote. |  | 20 |
| 4806948818 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification ex: "America is to the world as the hippo is to the jungle." |  | 21 |
| 4806948819 | Hyperbole | An exaggeration. ex: "My mother will kill me if I'm late." |  | 22 |
| 4806948820 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. ex: "I got chewed out by my coach." |  | 23 |
| 4806948821 | Metaphor | Making an implied comparison, not using "like," as," or other such words. (An extended metaphor is when the metaphor is continued later in the written work. A particularly elaborate extended metaphor is called using conceit.) ex: "My feet are popsicles." | 24 | |
| 4806948822 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it ex: "England decides to keep check on immigration." ex: "The pen is mightier than the sword." | 25 | |
| 4806948823 | Synecdoche | A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa. ex: "Check out my new wheels." | 26 | |
| 4806948824 | Simile | Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things. ex: "Cute as a kitten." ex: "Life is like a box of chocolates." |  | 27 |
| 4806948825 | Synesthesia | A description involving a crossing of the senses. ex: "I was deafened by his brightly-colored clothing." |  | 28 |
| 4806948826 | Personification | Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human. ex: "The tired old truck groaned as it inched up the hill." |  | 29 |
| 4806948827 | Foreshadowing | When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story. |  | 30 |
| 4806948828 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. |  | 31 |
| 4806948829 | Gothic | Writing characterised by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death. | 32 | |
| 4806948830 | Imagery | Word or words that animate a text in the reader's mind. Usually involves the five senses. |  | 33 |
| 4806948831 | Invective | A long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language. |  | 34 |
| 4806948832 | Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. |  | 35 |
| 4806948833 | Verbal irony | When you say something and mean the opposite/something different. ex: describing running a mile in eight minutes or faster as a "walk in the park" |  | 36 |
| 4806948834 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something that the character doesn't. |  | 37 |
| 4806948835 | Situational irony | Occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected. |  | 38 |
| 4806948836 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasise comparisons or contrasts ex: Juxtaposing the average day of a typical American with that of someone in the third world in order to make a point of social commentary. |  | 39 |
| 4806948837 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. Setting, tone, and events can all affect it. |  | 40 |
| 4806948838 | Motif | A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work. | 41 | |
| 4806948839 | Oxymoron | When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox. ex: "jumbo shrimp." |  | 42 |
| 4806948840 | Pacing | The speed or tempo of an author's writing; the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another |  | 43 |
| 4806948841 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. ex: "You can't get a job without experience, and you can't get experience without getting a job." |  | 44 |
| 4806948842 | Parallelism | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns. used to add emphasis, organisation, or sometimes pacing to writing. ex: "Cinderella swept the floor, dusted the mantle, and beat the rugs." |  | 45 |
| 4806948843 | 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. ex: "I came, I saw, I conquered." |  | 46 |
| 4806948844 | Chiasmus/Antimetabole | When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the words is reversed. |  | 47 |
| 4806948845 | Antithesis | Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. ex: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." |  | 48 |
| 4806948846 | Zeugma/Syllepsis | When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word might change for each of the other words it governs or modifies. ex: "I quickly dressed myself and the salad." |  | 49 |
| 4806948847 | Parenthetical Idea | Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence. Almost considered an aside. ex: "In a short time (and the time is getting shorter by the gallon) America will be out of oil." |  | 50 |
| 4806948848 | Parody | An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. It borrows words or phrases from an original, and pokes fun at it. This is also a form of allusion, since it is referencing a previous text, event, etc. |  | 51 |
| 4806948849 | Satire | A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behaviour by portraying it in an extreme way. It doesn't simply abuse (as in invective) or get personal (as in sarcasm). It targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals. |  | 52 |
| 4806948850 | Persona | The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. | 53 | |
| 4806948851 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions |  | 54 |
| 4806948852 | Pun | When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way. ex: "I was stirred by his cooking lesson." |  | 55 |
| 4806948853 | Rhetoric | The art of effective communication; using language effectively and persuasively. |  | 56 |
| 4806948854 | Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle | The relationships, in any piece of writing, between the writer, the audience, and the purpose. |  | 57 |
| 4806948855 | Rhetorical Question | Question not asked for information but for effect. ex: 'Are you finished interrupting me?' |  | 58 |
| 4806948856 | Hypophora, antipophora, or anthypophora | A figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question. Commonly, a question is asked in the first paragraph and then the paragraph is used to answer the question. | 59 | |
| 4806948857 | Sarcasm | A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded. However, not all satire and irony are sarcastic. It is the bitter, mocking tone that separates sarcasm from mere verbal irony or satire. |  | 60 |
| 4806948858 | Vices | Bad qualities, habits, or patterns of behavior that incline us to actions that are harmful to ourselves and others. | 61 | |
| 4806948859 | Follies | Lack of good sense, foolishness. | 62 | |
| 4806948860 | Sentence | A group of words (including subject and verb) that expresses a complete thought. |  | 63 |
| 4806948861 | Appositive | A word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning. ex: "Bob, the lumber yard worker, spoke with Judy, an accountant from the city." |  | 64 |
| 4806948862 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. |  | 65 |
| 4806948863 | Sentence structures | The way a sentence is arranged, grammatically. includes where the noun and verb fall within an individual sentence. | 66 | |
| 4806948864 | Balanced sentence | A sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasise a contrast ex: "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." |  | 67 |
| 4806948865 | Compound sentence | Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses. (more than one subject) | 68 | |
| 4806948866 | Complex sentence | Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 69 | |
| 4806948867 | Cumulative sentence or Loose sentence | When the independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. ex: "He doubted whether he could ever again appear before an audience, his confidence broken, his limbs shaking, his collar wet with perspiration." | 70 | |
| 4806948868 | Periodic sentence | When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence. The writer begins with subordinate elements and postpones the main clause. ex: "His confidence broken, his limbs shaking, his collar wet with perspiration, he doubted whether he could ever again appear before an audience." | 71 | |
| 4806948869 | Simple sentence | Contains only one independent clause. | 72 | |
| 4806948870 | Declarative sentence | States an idea. It does not give a command or request, nor does it ask a question. ex: "The ball is round." |  | 73 |
| 4806948871 | Imperative sentence | Issues a command. ex: "Kick the ball." |  | 74 |
| 4806948872 | Interrogative sentence | Sentences incorporating interrogative pronouns (what, which, who, whom, and whose). ex: "To whom did you kick the ball?" |  | 75 |
| 4806948873 | Style | The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. May be conscious or unconscious. |  | 76 |
| 4806948874 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. ex: the Whale in Moby Dick. |  | 77 |
| 4806948875 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. Language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases and sentences | 78 | |
| 4806948876 | Theme | A topic of discussion or writing; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work. |  | 79 |
| 4806948877 | Thesis | The sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition. | 80 | |
| 4806948878 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organisation on the sentence and global levels. |  | 81 |
| 4806948879 | Understatement | The ironic minimising of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. The effect can frequently be humorous. ex: "Our defence played valiantly, and held the other team to merely eight touchdowns in the first quarter." |  | 82 |
| 4806948880 | Litotes | A particular form of understatement, generated by denying the opposite of the statement which otherwise would be used. ex: "The flavours of the mushrooms, herbs, and spices combine to make the dish not at all disagreeable." | 83 | |
| 4806948881 | Argument | A piece of reasoning with one or more premises and a conclusion. |  | 84 |
| 4806948882 | Aristotle's appeals | Divided all means of persuasion into three categories - logos, pathos, ethos. |  | 85 |
| 4806948883 | Ethos (credibility) | An appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. |  | 86 |
| 4806948884 | Pathos (emotional) | An appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. |  | 87 |
| 4806948885 | Logos (logical) | An appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. |  | 88 |
| 4806948886 | Concession | Accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint. Often used to make one's own argument stronger by demonstrating that one is willing to accept what is obviously true and reasonable, even if it is presented by the opposition. |  | 89 |
| 4806948887 | Rebuttal | A counterargument, refutation; response with contrary evidence |  | 90 |
| 4806948888 | Conditional Statement | An if-then statement and consists of two parts, an antecedent and a consequent. Often used as premises in an argument. ex: "If you studied hard, then you will pass the test." |  | 91 |
| 4806948889 | Contradiction | A direct opposition between things compared; inconsistency |  | 92 |
| 4806948890 | Counterexample | An example that opposes a claim/statement, thus falsifying it. | 93 | |
| 4806948891 | Deductive argument | The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example. | 94 | |
| 4806948892 | Inductive argument | An inference that goes from the numerous particulars to the universal. | 95 | |
| 4806948893 | Fallacy | A failure of logical reasoning. Appear to make an argument reasonable, but falsely so. |  | 96 |
| 4806948894 | Ad hominem | An argument based on the failings of an adversary rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack. ex: "How can you argue your case for vegetarianism when you are enjoying your steak?" |  | 97 |
| 4806948895 | Appeal to authority | The claim that because somebody with authority supports an idea, the idea must be right. Often used in advertising. |  | 98 |
| 4806948896 | Bandwagon | A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular, it is therefore good, correct, or desirable. |  | 99 |
| 4806948898 | False analogy | When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them. ex: "People who cannot go without their coffee every morning are no better than alcoholics." |  | 100 |
| 4806948899 | False cause | A fallacy in which a speaker mistakenly assumes that because one event follows another, the first event is the cause of the second ex: "It is dark now, which makes it very dangerous." ex: "Money makes people arrogant." | 101 | |
| 4806948900 | Hasty generalization | A generalisation based on too little or unrepresentative data. ex: "My uncle didn't go to college, and he makes a lot of money. So, people who don't go to college do just as well as those who do." |  | 102 |
| 4806948901 | Non Sequitur | A conclusion that does not follow from its premises; an invalid argument. ex: "She's wearing red shoes. Her favourite colour must be red." ex: "My neighbour's cat is aloof and mean. Cats are nasty creatures." | 103 | |
| 4806948902 | Slippery slope | The assumption that once started, a situation will continue to its most extreme possible outcome. ex: "If you drink a glass of wine, then you'll soon be drinking all the time, and then you'll become a homeless alcoholic." |  | 104 |
| 4806948903 | Qualifier | A word or phrase that clarifies, modifies, or limits the meaning of another word or phrase. ex: "usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely" |  | 105 |
| 4806948904 | Sound argument | Contains two things: a valid argument and all its premises must be true. Its conclusion also must be accepted. | 106 | |
| 4806948905 | Valid argument | An argument is valid if the conclusion logically follows from the premises. | 107 | |
| 4806948906 | Warrant | Explanation of why or how the data supports the claim, the underlying assumption that connects your data to your claim. |  | 108 |
| 5833248824 | Anadiplosis | A repetition of the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the text. "to double back" ex: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." |  | 109 |
| 5833248825 | Apostrophe | An interruption of discourse in order to directly address a personified thing, either present or absent. "turning away" ex: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" |  | 110 |
| 5833252993 | Asyndeton | A deliberate omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. ex: "I came, I saw, I conquered." |  | 111 |
| 5833258374 | Epanalepsis | The repetition of the first word of a clause or sentence at the end. ex: "In the world, ye shall have trials, but be of good cheer-I have overcome the world." |  | 112 |
| 5833258375 | Expletive | A single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal syntax. ex: in fact, of course, to be sure, indeed, I suppose, I hope, you know, you see, clearly, in any event, in effect, certainly |  | 113 |
| 5833258376 | Hypophora | Raising one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them, usually at some length. ex: ask q in beginning of para and then use the para to answer |  | 114 |
| 5833259670 | Parenthesis | The insertion of a word, phrase, or whole sentence as an aside in the middle of another sentence. -dashes are more dramatic and forceful- (parentheses are less stringent) | 115 |
