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| 6547930706 | personification | giving human characteristics to something nonhuman | 0 | |
| 6547933730 | verbal irony | the contrast between what is said and what is intended | 1 | |
| 6547935216 | wit | an intellectual form of humor | 2 | |
| 6547936723 | pun | a play on words, usually for comic effect | 3 | |
| 6547938768 | allegory | presentation of an abstract idea through more concrete means | 4 | |
| 6547944293 | gerund | verb ending in "ing" that acts as a noun | 5 | |
| 6547951635 | onomatopoeia | using words that sound like what they mean | 6 | |
| 6547953587 | Thomas Paine | the author of Common Sense | 7 | |
| 6547961367 | Abraham Lincoln | he gave the famous "House Divided" speech | 8 | |
| 6547966523 | Alexander the Great | ruled Greece and conquered most of the ancient world in the 4th century B.C. | 9 | |
| 6547970270 | Augustus Ceasar | the first emperor of Rome | 10 | |
| 6547974770 | despotism | unlimited political rule by one person | 11 | |
| 6547977791 | Marxism | political, economic, and social doctrine that calls for a classless society | 12 | |
| 6547981531 | complex | sentence that contains one independent and one subordinate clause | 13 | |
| 6547985559 | periodic | sentence that begins with modifiers and ends with an independent clause | 14 | |
| 6547988134 | imperative | sentence that gives commands or instructions | 15 | |
| 6547989788 | inverted | sentence in which the subject comes after the verb | 16 | |
| 6547993147 | antithesis | "Give me liberty or give me death." | 17 | |
| 6547997036 | gradatio | "Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering." | 18 | |
| 6548004247 | bias | prejudice toward one side of an issue | 19 | |
| 6548005925 | ambiguity | uncertainty that leave the text open for interpretation | 20 | |
| 6548011811 | motif | recurring element that serves to unify elements of a text | 21 | |
| 6548297179 | innuendo | indirect or subtle derogatory implication | 22 | |
| 6548300130 | antimetabole | pairing of two mirror phrases or clauses, for effect | 23 | |
| 6548305002 | syllogism | logical reasoning from an inarguable premise | 24 | |
| 6548308668 | warrant | connects the claim to the data | 25 | |
| 6548311471 | exordium | the introduction of a speech, used to draw in the audience (classic rhetoric) | 26 | |
| 6548316295 | hortatory | speech that incites a course of action | 27 | |
| 6548317610 | subjunctive mood | verb used to express a wish, hypothesize, or recommend | 28 | |
| 6548324235 | antecedent | the noun a pronoun replaces | 29 | |
| 6548327013 | abstract | expression of an idea that cannot be detected with the five senses | 30 | |
| 6548329658 | Lusitania | British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine in 1915 - incited the U.S. to join WWI | 31 | |
| 6597560433 | exemplification | a pattern of development that uses examples to support or clarify a thesis or claim | 32 | |
| 6597649459 | omniscient | all-knowing third person narrator | 33 | |
| 6597755515 | shift | when a change occurs within a text | 34 | |
| 6597767626 | major premise | irrefutable generalization of a syllogism | 35 | |
| 6597775236 | red herring | a logical fallacy that makes use of off-topic issues when directly countering an argument fails | 36 | |
| 6597788345 | ad populum | an emotional appeal to a positive concept such as patriotism or God | 37 | |
| 6597796074 | assertion | a claim or declaration often made without support or reasons | 38 | |
| 6597803385 | circular reasoning | when an argument is merely restated rather than proven | 39 | |
| 6597819384 | polysyndenton | deliberate use of a series of conjunctions - "lions and tigers and bears" | 40 | |
| 6597857430 | Inquisition | court established by the Roman Catholic Church in the 13th century to try cases of hersey | 41 | |
| 6597880717 | Julius Caesar | "veni, vidi, vici." | 42 | |
| 6597892513 | feudalism | socioeconomic system of the Middle Ages | 43 | |
| 6597907913 | Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death." | 44 | |
| 6597913569 | Brown vs. the Board of Education | this ended public school segregation in the United States | 45 | |
| 6597930171 | collective nouns | team, staff, committee | 46 | |
| 6597933545 | comma splice | using only a comma to join 2 independent clauses | 47 | |
| 6597957272 | fused sentence | another name for a run-on | 48 | |
| 6597976772 | Winston Churchill | "History is written by the victors." | 49 | |
| 6597982564 | Abraham Lincoln | "The ballot is stronger than the bullet." | 50 | |
| 6597996943 | Benjamin Franklin | "Well done is better than well said." | 51 | |
| 6598006064 | conceit | an elaborate extended metaphor or simile | 52 | |
| 6598008584 | malapropism | confused, usually comic misuse of words | 53 | |
| 6598017802 | trope | when words are twisted or turned - irony, metaphor, personification, simile | 54 |
