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| 2888951787 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 2888951788 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event | 1 | |
| 2888951789 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar | 2 | |
| 2888951790 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 2888951791 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 2888951792 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 2888951793 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 2888951794 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 7 | |
| 2888951795 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 2888951796 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth | 9 | |
| 2888951797 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 10 | |
| 2888951798 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 11 | |
| 2888951799 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 2888951800 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject and the audience | 13 | |
| 2888951801 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 14 | |
| 2888951802 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 2888951803 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 16 | |
| 2888951804 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 2888951805 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 2888951806 | Authority | A reliable, respected source- someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 2888951807 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 20 | |
| 2888951808 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 21 | |
| 2888951809 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 2888951810 | 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 | |
| 2888951811 | Colloquial/ ism | An informal or conversational use of language | 24 | |
| 2888951812 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions | 25 | |
| 2888951813 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 2888951814 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding | 27 | |
| 2888951815 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 28 | |
| 2888951816 | Context | Words, event, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 29 | |
| 2888951817 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 30 | |
| 2888951818 | Counter argument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 2888951819 | Cumulative sentence | A independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
| 2888951820 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement | 33 | |
| 2888951821 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 2888951822 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary defenition | 35 | |
| 2888951823 | Diction | Word choice | 36 | |
| 2888951824 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 37 | |
| 2888951825 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 38 | |
| 2888951826 | Epigram | A brief witty statement | 39 | |
| 2888951827 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 40 | |
| 2888951828 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literal meaning | 41 | |
| 2888951829 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 42 | |
| 2888951830 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses ( sight,smell,taste,touch,hearing | 43 | |
| 2888951831 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands | 44 | |
| 2888951832 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general | 45 | |
| 2888951833 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject | 46 | |
| 2888951834 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 47 | |
| 2888951835 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 48 | |
| 2888951836 | Logos | A Greek term that means word; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle' s three rhetorical appeals | 49 | |
| 2888951837 | 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 | |
| 2888951838 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 51 | |
| 2888951839 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing | 52 | |
| 2888951840 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | 53 | |
| 2888951841 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 54 | |
| 2888951842 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 55 | |
| 2888951843 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 56 | |
| 2888951844 | 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 | 57 | |
| 2888951845 | Persona | The speaker,voice,or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 58 | |
| 2888951846 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | 59 | |
| 2888951847 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 60 | |
| 2888951848 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 61 | |
| 2888951849 | 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 | ... | 62 | |
| 2888951850 | Major premise | All mammals are warm- blooded | 63 | |
| 2888951851 | Minor premise | All horses are mammals | 64 | |
| 2888951852 | Conclusion | All horses are warm- blooded | 65 | |
| 2888951853 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 66 | |
| 2888951854 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 67 | |
| 2888951855 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 68 | |
| 2888951856 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasive" | 69 | |
| 2888951857 | Rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose | 70 | |
| 2888951858 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer | 71 | |
| 2888951859 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship speaker,the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 72 | |
| 2888951860 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty compositions that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 73 | |
| 2888951861 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 74 | |
| 2888951862 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentences constructions | 75 | |
| 2888951863 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 76 | |
| 2888951864 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses like or as to compare two things | 77 | |
| 2888951865 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 78 | |
| 2888951866 | Source | A book, article, person, speaker, or the person whose perspective, real or imagined, is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 79 | |
| 2888951867 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position: misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | 80 | |
| 2888951868 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selective and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 81 | |
| 2888951869 | Subject | In rhetorical, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 82 | |
| 2888951870 | Subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 83 | |
| 2888951871 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 84 | |
| 2888951872 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise | 85 | |
| 2888951873 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 86 | |
| 2888951874 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 87 | |
| 2888951875 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 88 | |
| 2888951876 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit | 89 | |
| 2888951877 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 90 | |
| 2888951878 | Topic sentence | A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, the announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis | 91 | |
| 2888951879 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 92 | |
| 2888951880 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 93 | |
| 2888951881 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun, active or passive voice. In rhetorical, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing | 94 | |
| 2888951882 | Zeugma | A constructions in which one word( usually a verb) modifies or governs- often in different, sometimes incongruent ways- two or more words in a sentence | 95 | |
| 2888951883 | Speaker | A term used used for the authority,speaker, or the person who's perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 96 |
