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| 5177310027 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 5177310028 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
| 5177310029 | analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 2 | |
| 5177310030 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 5177310031 | anecdote | short story of an amusing or interesting event | 4 | |
| 5177310032 | annotation | a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work | 5 | |
| 5177310033 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 5177310034 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 7 | |
| 5177310035 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction | 8 | |
| 5177310036 | aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle; a maxim; a proverb | 9 | |
| 5177310037 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 10 | |
| 5177310038 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 11 | |
| 5177310039 | argument | A single assertion or a series of assertions presented and defended by the writer | 12 | |
| 5177310040 | Aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 5177310041 | assertion | something declared or stated positively | 14 | |
| 5177310042 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 5177310043 | asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 16 | |
| 5177310044 | attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 5177310045 | audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 5177310046 | authority | a reliable, respected source - someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 5177310047 | bias | a prejudiced view (either for or against); a preference | 20 | |
| 5177310048 | cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 21 | |
| 5177310049 | claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 5177310050 | 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 | |
| 5177310051 | colloquialism | an informal or conversational use of language | 24 | |
| 5177310052 | common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions | 25 | |
| 5177310053 | complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 5177310054 | concession | a reluctant acknowledgment or yielding | 27 | |
| 5177310055 | connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 28 | |
| 5177310056 | context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 5177310057 | coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 30 | |
| 5177310058 | counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 5177310059 | credible | trustworthy, believable | 32 | |
| 5177310060 | cumulative sentence | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 33 | |
| 5177310061 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 34 | |
| 5177310062 | deduction | reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | 35 | |
| 5177310063 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word; dictionary definition | 36 | |
| 5177310064 | diction | word choice | 37 | |
| 5177310065 | documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 38 | |
| 5177310066 | elegiac | a mournful tone | 39 | |
| 5177310067 | epigram | a brief witty statement | 40 | |
| 5177310068 | ethos | Greek term referring to the character of a person | 41 | |
| 5177310069 | explication of text | explanation though an analysis of it parts, including literary devices; close reading | 42 | |
| 5177310070 | facts | information that true or demonstrable | 43 | |
| 5177310071 | figurative language | use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 44 | |
| 5177310072 | trope | artful diction; figure of speech such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, metonymy, or synecdoche | 45 | |
| 5177310073 | scheme | artful syntax; pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect such as parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, and antimetabole | 46 | |
| 5177310074 | hortative sentence | urging or strongly encouraging | 47 | |
| 5177310075 | hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis | 48 | |
| 5177310076 | imagery | language that evokes a reader's 5 senses | 49 | |
| 5177310077 | imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands | 50 | |
| 5177310078 | induction | reasoning from specific to general | 51 | |
| 5177310079 | inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject | 52 | |
| 5177310080 | verbal irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant | 53 | |
| 5177310081 | juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 54 | |
| 5177310082 | logos | A Greek term meaning an appeal to logic | 55 | |
| 5177310083 | metaphor | a figure of speech or trope in which a direct or implicit comparison is made | 56 | |
| 5177310084 | metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 57 | |
| 5177310085 | modifier | a word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or modifies another word, phrase, or clause | 58 | |
| 5177310086 | narration | retelling an event or series of events | 59 | |
| 5177310087 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 60 | |
| 5177310088 | omniscient narrator | an all-knowing, usually third-person te | 61 | |
| 5177310089 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | 62 | |
| 5177310090 | pacing | the relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented. | 63 | |
| 5177310091 | paradox | a statement that seems conradictory but is actually true | 64 | |
| 5177310092 | parallelism | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 65 | |
| 5177310093 | parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 66 | |
| 5177310094 | pathos | a Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to mean appeals to emotion | 67 | |
| 5177310095 | periodic sentence | a sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause | 68 | |
| 5177310096 | persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author | 69 | |
| 5177310097 | personification | Giving lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | 70 | |
| 5177310098 | polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy politics or religion | 71 | |
| 5177310099 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 72 | |
| 5177310100 | syllogism | a three-part deductive argument in which a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise ("All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal.") | 73 | |
| 5177310101 | propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 74 | |
| 5177310102 | purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 75 | |
| 5177310103 | refute | to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 76 | |
| 5177310104 | rhetoric | study of effective, persuasive language use | 77 | |
| 5177310105 | rhetorical modes | patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose | 78 | |
| 5177310106 | rhetorical question | a question asked to produce an effect | 79 | |
| 5177310107 | satire | ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 80 | |
| 5177310108 | simile | a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 81 | |
| 5177310109 | speaker | the author, speaker, or person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 82 | |
| 5177310110 | straw man | a logical fallacy that misrepresents, then attacks an opponent's position | 83 | |
| 5177310111 | style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 84 | |
| 5177310112 | subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 85 | |
| 5177310113 | subordination | the dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 86 | |
| 5177310114 | syntax | sentence structure | 87 | |
| 5177310115 | syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise | 88 | |
| 5177310116 | synthesis | combining two or more elements to produce something more complex | 89 | |
| 5177310117 | thesis | the central idea in a a work to which all parts of the work refer | 90 | |
| 5177310118 | tone | the writer's attitude toward the subject or audience | 91 | |
| 5177310119 | understatement | restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 92 | |
| 5177310120 | voice | In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing | 93 | |
| 5177310121 | zeugma | a construction in which one word modifies or governs two or more words in a sentence | 94 | |
| 5177310122 | ad hominem | In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man." | 95 | |
| 5177310123 | ad populum (bandwagon appeal) | [fallacy]- persuading the reader to go along with the position that is popular. | 96 | |
| 5177310124 | appeal to false authority | a claim that uses as evidence the testimony of someone who is not an expert on the topic | 97 | |
| 5177310125 | begging the question | circular reasoning | 98 | |
| 5177310126 | claim of fact | asserts something is true or not true | 99 | |
| 5177310127 | claim of policy | proposes a change | 100 | |
| 5177310128 | claim of value | argues something is good or bad, right or wrong | 101 | |
| 5177310129 | closed thesis | a statement of the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make. | 102 | |
| 5177310130 | open thesis | An open thesis is one that does not list all the points the writer intends to cover in an essay. | 103 | |
| 5177310131 | equivocation | a fallacy that uses a term with two or more meanings in an attempt to misrepresent or deceive | 104 | |
| 5177310132 | first-hand evidence | evidence based on something the author knows, whether it is from personal experience, observations, or general knowledge of events. | 105 | |
| 5177310133 | second-hand evidence | evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. it includes factual and historical information, expert opinion, and quantitative data. | 106 | |
| 5177310134 | hasty generalization | drawing conclusions based on insufficient or unrepresentative evidence | 107 | |
| 5177310135 | irony | the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually happens | 108 | |
| 5177310136 | mood | the overall emotion created by a work of literature | 109 | |
| 5177310137 | peroration | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech | 110 | |
| 5177310138 | qualifier | a word or words making a statement less absolute | 111 | |
| 5177310139 | rebuttal | refutation; response with contrary evidence | 112 | |
| 5177310140 | refutation | the act of determining that something is false | 113 | |
| 5177310141 | SOAPS | subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker | 114 | |
| 5177310142 | synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing | 115 | |
| 5177310143 | synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 116 | |
| 5177310144 | litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary), a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite (describing a particularly horrific scene by saying, "It was not a pretty picture.") | 117 | |
| 5177310145 | epistrophe | repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect (as Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people") Compare to anaphora. Ex: "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child." (Corinthians) Ex: I'll have my bond!/ Speak not against my bond!/ I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.---The Merchant of Venice | 118 |
