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| 4731304232 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 4731304233 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 4731304234 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 4731304235 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 4731304236 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event. | 4 | |
| 4731304237 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 5 | |
| 4731304238 | Antecedant | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 4731304239 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 4731304240 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 8 | |
| 4731304241 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. | 9 | |
| 4731304242 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 4731304243 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 4731304244 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. | 12 | |
| 4731304245 | Aristotelian/Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience. | 13 | |
| 4731304246 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. One supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 14 | |
| 4731304247 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 4731304248 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. | 16 | |
| 4731304249 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 17 | |
| 4731304250 | Audience | One's listeners or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 4731304251 | Authority | A reliable respected source. | 19 | |
| 4731304252 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 4731304253 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 4731304254 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 22 | |
| 4731304255 | Close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. | 23 | |
| 4731304256 | Colloquial/-ism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 4731304257 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 4731304258 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 26 | |
| 4731304259 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding. | 27 | |
| 4731304260 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning. | 28 | |
| 4731304261 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 4731304262 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as "and" or "but." | 30 | |
| 4731304263 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 31 | |
| 4731304264 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 32 | |
| 4731304265 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. | 33 | |
| 4731304266 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 34 | |
| 4731304267 | Diction | Word choice. | 35 | |
| 4731304268 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 36 | |
| 4731304269 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 37 | |
| 4731304270 | Epigram | A brief, witty statement. | 38 | |
| 4731304271 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals. | 39 | |
| 4731304272 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 40 | |
| 4731304273 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 41 | |
| 4731304274 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 42 | |
| 4731304275 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 43 | |
| 4731304276 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 44 | |
| 4731304277 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. | 45 | |
| 4731304278 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 46 | |
| 4731304279 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 47 | |
| 4731304280 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 48 | |
| 4731304281 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals. | 49 | |
| 4731304282 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 50 | |
| 4731304283 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 51 | |
| 4731304284 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 52 | |
| 4731304285 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 53 | |
| 4731304286 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 54 | |
| 4731304287 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 55 | |
| 4731304288 | Pathos | A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals. | 56 | |
| 4731304289 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 57 | |
| 4731304290 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 58 | |
| 4731304291 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually philosophy, politics, or religion. | 59 | |
| 4731304292 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 60 | |
| 4731304293 | Premise (major, minor) | Two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major one and its subject from the minor one. | 61 | |
| 4731304294 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 62 | |
| 4731304295 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 63 | |
| 4731304296 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 64 | |
| 4731304297 | Rhetoric | The art of speaking or writing effectively. | 65 | |
| 4731304298 | Rhetoric modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; they include but are not limited to: narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. | 66 | |
| 4731304299 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than summon an answer. | 67 | |
| 4731304300 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 68 | |
| 4731304301 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 69 | |
| 4731304302 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 70 | |
| 4731304303 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 71 | |
| 4731304304 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 72 | |
| 4731304305 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 73 | |
| 4731304306 | Speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing. | 74 | |
| 4731304307 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 75 | |
| 4731304308 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 76 | |
| 4731304309 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 77 | |
| 4731304310 | Subordinate clause | A clause that modifies an independent clause, created by a subordinating conjunction. | 78 | |
| 4731304311 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 79 | |
| 4731304312 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise. | 80 | |
| 4731304313 | Syntax | Sentence structure. | 81 | |
| 4731304314 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 82 | |
| 4731304315 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 83 | |
| 4731304316 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work that may be explicit or implicit. | 84 | |
| 4731304317 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 85 | |
| 4731304318 | Topic sentence | A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis. | 86 | |
| 4731304319 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 87 | |
| 4731304320 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 88 | |
| 4731304321 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun. In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 89 | |
| 4731304322 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs two or more words in a sentence, often in different, sometimes incongruent ways. | 90 |
