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7241490564Active voiceA sentence with a ___ verb. ex) He planted his seeds in the garden.0
7241504453AnadiplosisThe last word of the clause begins the next clause, creating a connection of ideas important to the author's purpose in some way.1
7241526586analogysignifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas ex) a heart and a pump2
7241545365anaphoradeliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses, or paragraphs. Often used when politicians make promises.3
7241572131anastrophethe reversal of he natural order of words in a sentence or line in poetry. Shakespeare did this a lot. ex) The poisoned apple she ate to her gave cramps of a serious nature.4
7241605018antithesisAn observation or claim opposite to your/the author's claim. ex)if claim is drill wells, it would be to divert water from river5
7241647984aphorismA brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth. Normally only in multiple choice section.6
7241687046apostropheprayer-like, this is a direct address to someone not present, (deity, muse, God, etc.) Rarely on test, but is significant and most likely pathos7
7241715136argument from ignoranceargument that something is true because it has never been proven false (can go two ways)8
7241722188asyndetonThe deliberate omission of conjunctions from a series of related independent clauses. The effect is to create a tight, concise and forceful sentence. ex) All the orcs ate the food, broke the dishes, trashed the hall, said they'd be back tomorrow.9
7241754173begging the questionan argument that introduces a claim that includes word or phrase that needs to be defined before the argument can proceed10
7241819587chiasmusABBA syntactical structure rather than more common ABAB structure. ex) Ask not what your country (a) can do for you (b), but what you (b) can do for your country (a).11
7241865214complex sentencea sentence that is a combination of a dependent and an independent clause12
7241868356compound-complex sentencea combination of a complex and a compound sentence13
7242482754declarative sentencebasic statement or assertion14
7242485172deductivean argument formed based off of claims or premises15

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