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| 4921847418 | pathos | Appeals to the emotions of the audience | 0 | |
| 4921849862 | polysyndeton | A syntactical structure that places a conjunction (and, or) after every term in the list (except, of course, the last). | 1 | |
| 4921851438 | prose | The ordinary form of written language without metrical structure in contrast to verse and poetry | 2 | |
| 4921855812 | realism | Attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail | 3 | |
| 4921922644 | rebuttal | An argument technique wherein opposing arguments are anticipated and countered | 4 | |
| 4921870166 | rhetorical question | A question that is asked simply for the sake of stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered | 5 | |
| 4921900594 | satire | A literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure | 6 | |
| 4921900595 | semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another | 7 | |
| 4921900596 | syllogism | A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called "major" and the second, "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. | 8 | |
| 4921900597 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part signifies a whole | 9 | |
| 4921900598 | syntax | The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. Basically, sentence structure. | 10 | |
| 4921905286 | tone | The attitude the narrator/author has toward the subject and theme. Based on particular stylistic devices employed by the author. | 11 | |
| 4921907744 | trope | An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas., a figure of speech involving a "turn" or change of sense—a use of the word in a sense other than its proper or literal one. | 12 | |
| 4921910940 | undertone | An attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece | 13 | |
| 4921912803 | voice | The acknowledged or unacknowledged source of the words of the story; the speaker's or narrator's particular "take" on an idea based on a particular passage and how all the elements of the style of the piece come together to express his/her feelings | 14 |
