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| 14666596574 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. ex.) She sells seashells by the sea-shore. | 0 | |
| 14666609619 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 14666613372 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 14666616989 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 14666620938 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting or humorous event. | 4 | |
| 14666632616 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 5 | |
| 14666636810 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 14666640731 | antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 14666644050 | Antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 8 | |
| 14666645416 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. | 9 | |
| 14666648990 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 14666655982 | archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 11 | |
| 14666658016 | argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 14666659920 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 14666661754 | assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 14 | |
| 14666663653 | assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 14666665545 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 16 | |
| 14666667174 | attidude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 17 | |
| 14666672282 | audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 14666675239 | authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 19 | |
| 14666675240 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 14666677703 | cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 14666679268 | claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 14666684557 | 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 | |
| 14666686327 | colloquial | An informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 14666688130 | common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 14666690178 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 14666692032 | concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 27 | |
| 14666693290 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 28 | |
| 14666698316 | context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 14666699267 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 30 | |
| 14666700295 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 14666701928 | cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 32 | |
| 14666722717 | declaritive sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 33 | |
| 14666724079 | deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 14666730328 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 35 | |
| 14666735898 | diction | word choice | 36 | |
| 14666737070 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 37 | |
| 14666737754 | elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 38 | |
| 14666741367 | epigram | A brief witty statement. | 39 | |
| 14666750532 | ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 40 | |
| 14666751925 | figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 41 | |
| 14666777717 | figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 42 | |
| 14666779434 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 43 | |
| 14666785905 | imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 44 | |
| 14666791149 | Imparitive sentence | a sentence that requests or commands. | 45 | |
| 14666794244 | Induction | reasoning from specific to general | 46 | |
| 14666796104 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 47 | |
| 14666797502 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 48 | |
| 14666799909 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 49 | |
| 14666801459 | Logos | A Greek word meaning "word," an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's 3 rhetorical appeals. (ethos and pathos are the other 2) | 50 | |
| 14666810781 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 51 | |
| 14666813672 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 52 | |
| 14666814650 | occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. | 53 | |
| 14666816139 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 54 | |
| 14666820515 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 55 | |
| 14666820531 | Parallelism | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 56 | |
| 14666826491 | parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 57 | |
| 14666828091 | 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 | 58 | |
| 14666832132 | Persona | the speaker,voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 59 | |
| 14666858432 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 60 | |
| 14666896756 | polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 61 | |
| 14666913026 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 62 | |
| 14666934314 | premise | major, minor Two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise. Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All horses are mammals. | 63 | |
| 14666937185 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 64 | |
| 14666938821 | purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 65 | |
| 14666942524 | refute | to discredit an argument. | 66 | |
| 14666944706 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 67 | |
| 14666947345 | rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. | 68 | |
| 14666956324 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 69 | |
| 14666958479 | rhetorical triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 70 | |
| 14666959832 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 71 | |
| 14666961931 | scheme | sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 72 | |
| 14666964185 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 73 | |
| 14666965341 | Sentence Variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 74 | |
| 14666966694 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 75 | |
| 14666967489 | simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 76 | |
| 14667003723 | source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 77 | |
| 14667005462 | 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 | 78 | |
| 14667006870 | straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 79 | |
| 14667006871 | style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 80 | |
| 14667012339 | subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 81 | |
| 14667013716 | subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 82 | |
| 14667025682 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 83 | |
| 14667029404 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 84 | |
| 14667031090 | synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 85 | |
| 14667033227 | thesis | the primary position taken by a writer or speaker | 86 | |
| 14667033228 | tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 87 | |
| 14667034189 | 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. | 88 | |
| 14667072184 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 89 | |
| 14667073598 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 90 | |
| 14667074866 | voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 91 | |
| 14667077603 | zeguma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence. | 92 |
