5375901662 | Active Voice | Any sentence with an active verb; opposite of passive voice | 0 | |
5375906445 | Ad Hominem | Attack on a person rather than the issues at hand | 1 | |
5375910407 | Aliiteration | repetition of a phonetic sound at the beginning of several words in a sentence | 2 | |
5375916999 | Allusion | reference that recalls another work, time in history, famous person, etc | 3 | |
5375929363 | Anadipolis | The last word in a clause begins the next clause, creating a connection of ideas important to the author's purpose in some way | 4 | |
5375939645 | Analogy | Rational comparison or similarity between two objects or ideas. | 5 | |
5375946607 | Anaphora | deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses, or paragraphs. | 6 | |
5375961852 | Anastrophe | The reversal of the natural order of words in a sentence or line of poetry | 7 | |
5375970376 | Antithesis | an observation or claim that is in opposition to an author's claim | 8 | |
5375975131 | Aphorism | a brief statement of an opinion or elemental trruth | 9 | |
5375980877 | Apostrophe | Prayer-like; a direct address to someone who is not present (nearly always pathos) | 10 | |
5375987212 | Appositive | Also called noun phrase, modifies the noun next to it | 11 | |
5375994286 | Argument from Ignorance | An argument stating that something is true because it has never been proven false | 12 |
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