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| 4122642965 | process | how it happens | 0 | |
| 4122642966 | definition | define an idea and differentiates it from other ideas in the same class | 1 | |
| 4122983880 | cause and affect | how happens and shows casual chain | 2 | |
| 4122983881 | problem and solution | identifies and provides possible outcomes | 3 | |
| 4122983882 | compare and contrast | explains how to or more items are alike and how they differ | 4 | |
| 4122983883 | classification and division | identifies the croup or breaks a group into parts | 5 | |
| 4122983884 | narrative | explain what happens first person, third person. Specific details to an event | 6 | |
| 4122983885 | descriptive | using sensory details to explain | 7 | |
| 4122983886 | argumentation | sharing points of view; not persuasion | 8 | |
| 4122983887 | Tone | The attitude a writer takes towards a subject or cared for. Serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue-in-cheek. A way of wording or expressing things that expresses an attitude: the tone may be angry, ironic | 9 | |
| 4122983888 | mood | The overall motion of a text: sometimes the mood is reflected from and to other characters | 10 | |
| 4122983889 | anaphora | deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive phrases paragraphs etc. | 11 | |
| 4122983890 | asyndeton | figure of a mission and which normally occurring conjunctions (FANBOYS) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases or clauses. A string of words not separated by normally occruing conjunction | 12 | |
| 4122983891 | alliteration | A stylistic device in which a number of words have the same first consonant sound occurring in a series | 13 | |
| 4122983892 | assonance | Tomball large close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sound | 14 | |
| 4122983893 | colloquial expression | words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing | 15 | |
| 4122983894 | consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants with in a sentence or phrase | 16 | |
| 4122983895 | connotation | an association that comes along with a particular word | 17 | |
| 4122983896 | denotation | The exact meaning of a word | 18 | |
| 4122983897 | diction | specific word choice used by the author to create or convey a typical mood, tone and atmosphere to their readers. | 19 | |
| 4122983898 | dialect | speech pattern typically of a certain regional location, race, or social group that exhibits itself through unique word choice. | 20 | |
| 4122983899 | euphemism | The use of a word or phrase that is less direct but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another. | 21 | |
| 4122983900 | euphonious | The use of words or phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create | 22 | |
| 4122983901 | inversion | also known as anastrophe; A literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular affect. | 23 | |
| 4122983902 | syntax | in grammar; The arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relation ship | 24 | |
| 4122983903 | antithesis | it's stab Lish is a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together. | 25 | |
| 4122983904 | ellipses | The omission of a word or words | 26 | |
| 4122983905 | inverted syntax | reversing the normal word order of a sentence | 27 | |
| 4122983906 | parallel syntactic structures | using the same part of speech or synthetic structure in each element of a series, before and after coordinating conjunction | 28 | |
| 4122983907 | periodic sentence structure | A sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end. | 29 | |
| 4122983908 | analogy | A comparison between two things in which the more complex is explain in terms of the more simple. | 30 | |
| 4122983909 | anecdote | A short entertaining account of something happening | 31 | |
| 4122983910 | metaphor | A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as if it were that thing | 32 | |
| 4122983911 | simile | A figure of speech involving a comparison using like or as | 33 | |
| 4122983912 | hyperbole | an extravagant exaggeration of fact | 34 | |
| 4122983913 | oxymoron | A figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combined | 35 | |
| 4122983914 | imagery | lively descriptions in which expresses the image of things upon the mind | 36 | |
| 4122983915 | paradox | A statement which self contradicts but maybe true in fact | 37 | |
| 4122983916 | parody | A literary composition which imitates the characteristic style of a serious work or writer and uses its features to treat trivial, nonsensical material in an attempt at humor or satire | 38 | |
| 4122983917 | personification | A figure of speech in which an in animate object is given human attributes | 39 | |
| 4122983918 | synecdoche | A figure of speech where part of something is used to represent the whole thing. | 40 | |
| 4122983919 | allegory | A story in which people, places, and things are represented with general concepts or moral qualities | 41 | |
| 4122983920 | allusion | A brief reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature or the Bible assume to be well known and recognized by the reader | 42 | |
| 4122983921 | irony | A method of humorous or sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the word is the opposite of their usual meeting. | 43 | |
| 4122983922 | verbal irony | when you say something and mean the exact opposite. | 44 | |
| 4122983923 | dramatic irony | when the audience of a drama, play, movie know something the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out. | 45 | |
| 4122983924 | situational irony | found in the plot or storyline of a book, story or movie. | 46 | |
| 4122983925 | juxtaposition | placing things side-by-side for the purpose of comparison | 47 | |
| 4122983926 | parable | A short story from which a lesson maybe drawn from | 48 | |
| 4122983927 | persona | The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story. | 49 | |
| 4122983928 | sarcasm | A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound | 50 | |
| 4122983929 | satire | A literary work in which vices | 51 | |
| 4122983930 | symbol | something that stands for another thing. | 52 | |
| 4122983931 | anticlimax | A sudden drop from the dignified or important in thought or expression to the commonplace travail, often for humorous effect | 53 | |
| 4122983932 | argumentation | exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it | 54 | |
| 4122983933 | cause-and-effect | examination of the causes and or effects of a situation or phenomenon. | 55 | |
| 4122983934 | chronological ordering | arrangement in the order in which things occur. | 56 | |
| 4122983935 | classification as a means of ordering | arrangement of objects according to class. | 57 | |
| 4122983936 | damning with faint praise | intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication | 58 | |
| 4122983937 | deduction | A form of reasoning that begins with a generalization, that applies the generalization to a specific cause. | 59 | |
| 4122983938 | digression | A temporary departure from the main subject in speaking or writing. | 60 | |
| 4122983939 | expository writing | writing that explains or analyzes | 61 | |
| 4122983940 | induction | form of reasoning which works from a body of fact to the formulation of a generalization. Opposite to deduction | 62 | |
| 4122983941 | litotes | A figure in which an affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary | 63 | |
| 4122983942 | order of importance | A method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics. | 64 | |
| 4122983943 | persuasion | taking a single position for the purpose of getting others to accept that position | 65 | |
| 4122983944 | Point of view | The way in which something is viewed or considered by a writer or speaker, in fiction. it is the relationship between the teller of a story and the characters in it. | 66 | |
| 4122983945 | spatial ordering | Organization of information using spatial cues such as top to bottom | 67 | |
| 4122983946 | thesis | The sentence or group of sentences that correctly expresses the authors opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition. clear and short | 68 | |
| 4122983947 | understatement | deliberately representing something as much less than it really is | 69 | |
| 4122983948 | rhetorical question | A question asked for rhetorical effect to emphasize a point | 70 | |
| 4122983949 | ad homiem | attacking the character of the opponent; arguments limit themselves not to the issues but to the opposition itself | 71 | |
| 4122983950 | bandwagon appeals | ad populum; trying to get everyone on board | 72 | |
| 4122983951 | begging the question | circular logic ; happens when the writer presents an arguable point as a fact that supports the argument | 73 | |
| 4122983952 | Faldo dilemma | The fallacy of logical argument which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered | 74 | |
| 4122983953 | non sequitur arguments | don't follow a logical sequence | 75 | |
| 4122983954 | post hoc fallacy | from Latin: occurs when the writer assumes that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident | 76 | |
| 4122983955 | opposing the straw man | A tactic used by a lot of writers because they find it easier to refute an oversimplified opposition | 77 | |
| 4122983956 | tu quoque | you're another; fallacies avoid the real argument by making similar charges against the opponent | 78 | |
| 4122983957 | ignoring the question | similar to presenting a red herring | 79 | |
| 4122983958 | red herring | Little relevance to the argument at hand | 80 | |
| 4122983959 | either or argument | reduced complex issues to black and white choices. | 81 | |
| 4122983960 | stacking the deck | The writer favors their position by ignoring examples that disprove their point. | 82 | |
| 4122983961 | equivocation | happens when the writer makes use of awards multiple meanings and changes the meanings in the middle of the argument without really telling the audience about the shift | 83 | |
| 4122983962 | faults authority or appeal to authority | tactic used by many writers, especially in advertising; Authority in one field may know nothing of another | 84 | |
| 4122983963 | fault analogies | leads to faulty conclusions | 85 | |
| 4122983964 | hasty generalization | base an argument and insignificant evidence; jumping to conclusions. | 86 | |
| 4122983965 | slippery slopes | suggest that one step well inevitably lead to more | 87 |
