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| 9870763960 | antithesis | often found in parallel constructions, 2 opposite or contrasting words, phrases and clauses ex: it was the best of times; it was the worst of times | 0 | |
| 9703465110 | Lexicon | specialized Vocabulary | 1 | |
| 9703469131 | Prose | Written in ordinary language that resembles everyday speech; not poetry | 2 | |
| 9703476480 | Rhetoric | The principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuavely | 3 | |
| 9703497037 | Rhetorical Features, Devices, Resources of Language, Rhetorical Strategies | Figures of speech, syntax, sentence structure, diction, and other stylistic elements that are used to produce a particular artistic effect | 4 | |
| 9703527841 | Genre | The major category in which a work of literature is catorigorized. | 5 | |
| 9703538796 | Generic Conventions | The typical characteristics that define a genre | 6 | |
| 9703549443 | Logos | Logical, (Facts, Reasoning) | 7 | |
| 9703553912 | Pathos | Emotional, (Feelings) | 8 | |
| 9703561050 | Ethos | Ethical, (Credibility, Trustworthiness) | 9 | |
| 9703609143 | Made of Discourse | What type/ Way that the the imformation is presented or written | 10 | |
| 9703622641 | Rheotrical Modes/ Expository Paterns | How the writting is organized exposition, argumetation, description, narrative, comparison/ contrast, divison and classifacation | 11 | |
| 9703640339 | Thesis/Purpose | Sentences that directly explain the authors opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition or emotion regarding the subject; short and clear | 12 | |
| 9703684919 | Topic/ attitude | A writers intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject; explain the language of attitude | 13 | |
| 9703704528 | Objective | Non-biased, non-opinonated, factual | 14 | |
| 9703710760 | Subjective | Reflecting a bias or opinion | 15 | |
| 9703718767 | Infer/inference | to draw a conclusion from information presented to us | 16 | |
| 9703721501 | Concrete detail | refer to specific types of details | 17 | |
| 9703748569 | Noun | a word that names | 18 | |
| 9703750931 | Concrete Noun | things that you can not actually touch or experense | 19 | |
| 9703756946 | Abstract Noun | Ideas, feelings, concepts, qualities, states of being | 20 | |
| 9703765570 | Proper noun | John, Mary, Woodmont | 21 | |
| 9703772492 | Common Noun | boy, girl, school | 22 | |
| 9703774746 | Verb | word that expresses action or helps make a statement | 23 | |
| 9703781788 | Action Verb | expresses mental or physical action | 24 | |
| 9703789056 | Linking Verb | makes a statement by connecting the subject with a word that describes | 25 | |
| 9703793049 | Pronoun | a word used in place of one or more nouns. It may stand for a person , place or thing | 26 | |
| 9703824000 | Adjective | modify or describes a noun or pronoun | 27 | |
| 9703827947 | Adverb | Modify or describe a verb, an adjective, or another adverb | 28 | |
| 9703833715 | Preposition | A word that relates a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence | 29 | |
| 9703839292 | Conjunction | a word that joins words or groups of words | 30 | |
| 9703846338 | What does Fan Boy stand for? | For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So | 31 | |
| 9703855541 | Interjections | an exclamartory word that expresses action | 32 | |
| 9703868321 | Narative | the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events | 33 | |
| 9703884904 | Narrative Devices | The tools of a story teller | 34 | |
| 9703887580 | Narrative Techniques | The writers style of telling the story | 35 | |
| 9703896242 | Anecdote | A brief recounting of a relevant episode, inserted to develop a point or add hummor | 36 | |
| 9703907310 | Setting | the time and place in which a story occurs | 37 | |
| 9703913674 | Atmosphere | The emotional mood that is created by a literary work | 38 | |
| 9703923273 | Narrative Options | Flashback, In media res, chronological, foreshadowing, stream of consciousness | 39 | |
| 9703938235 | Flashback | Telling a story from along time ago | 40 | |
| 9869836080 | In media res | you start the stoary in the middle of the action | 41 | |
| 9869838885 | chronological order | story is told in the order it hapened | 42 | |
| 9869846192 | Forshadowing | hints about what will happen later | 43 | |
| 9869855813 | Stream of consciounsness | the writter trys to replicate their thoughts | 44 | |
| 9869863044 | frame narration | when you have a story within a story | 45 | |
| 9869870805 | Imagery | describing in descriptive details | 46 | |
| 9869874708 | Pacing | the speed of a authors writting | 47 | |
| 9869884487 | Pronoun/antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause refered to by a pronouon | 48 | |
| 9869884488 | dialouge | conversations between characters which their actuall words are quoted | 49 | |
| 9869910450 | verbs | express an action | 50 | |
| 9869914177 | being verbs | can serve as either helping or linking verbs ex: be, have, may, can | 51 | |
| 9869922034 | Helping verbs | combine with other verb forms to indicate time, possibility, necessity, and other kind of meanings Ex: Chris can run after his surgery | 52 | |
| 9869951622 | Linking verbs | a verb which connects a subject to its predict without expressing an action, used to describe its subject ex: be,seem,appear,become, grow, stay | 53 | |
| 9869972545 | Active verb | the subject of the sentece is taking action ex: Mrs.Whitmire threw the desk | 54 | |
| 9869983011 | Passive Verb | the subject of the sentence is being acted on ex: the desk was thrown across the room | 55 | |
| 9869999046 | Predict Adjectives | a type of subject complement follows a linking verb and modifies or describes the subject Ex: Ms. Whitmire is nice | 56 | |
| 9870022108 | Predicit nominative | renames the subject ex: Mrs. Whitmire is a teacher | 57 | |
| 9870031550 | Verbal | a form of verb that is used as non adjective or adverb | 58 | |
| 9870035243 | Participle | a verb used as a adjective ex: strolling shoppers fill the mall | 59 | |
| 9870043411 | Gerund | a -ing verb used as a noun ex: teaching is very rewarding | 60 | |
| 9870055957 | Infinitives | the plain form of a verb plus to ex: to hide, to sleep, to eat | 61 | |
| 9870063098 | Appositive | a noun (or pronoun) that renames another noun ex: john, my boyfriend, made me a sandwhich | 62 | |
| 9870089852 | diction | word choice | 63 | |
| 9870089853 | annotation | the strict litteral, dictionary definition of a word | 64 | |
| 9870098216 | connotation | the feelings/ ideas associated with a word, the implied or suggested meaning | 65 | |
| 9870104546 | semantics | the branch of linguistics that studies the meanings of words | 66 | |
| 9870109073 | Jargon | the diction used by a small group which practices a similar profession or activity | 67 | |
| 9870117984 | Zeugma | a figure os speech in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, applies to more than one noun blending grammar together ex:John and his license expired last week | 68 | |
| 9870140774 | Colloquialism | use of slang or informalities in speech or writting Ex: yall, shook | 69 | |
| 9870151945 | Malapropism | a use of incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical anf humrous expression ex:Our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two auspicious persons" - supposed to be aprehended | 70 | |
| 9870185940 | invective | a long, emotionally violent attack using strong abusive language ex: you're a jerk | 71 | |
| 9870206203 | ambiguity | multiple meanings of a word ex: did you see her dress | 72 | |
| 9870212023 | Euphemism | less offensive substitue ex: deceased instead of died | 73 | |
| 9870235385 | imperative sentence | comand | 74 | |
| 9870240636 | declarative sentence | statement | 75 | |
| 9870243543 | interrogative sentence | question | 76 | |
| 9870245833 | main clause | has a subject and a predicate and can stand alone as a sentence ex: bob may buy a car today | 77 | |
| 9870264609 | subordinating clause | has a subject and a predicates and can not and alone as a sentence ex: if he finds one | 78 | |
| 9870283020 | simple sentence | may have a compound subject, a compound predicate or both ex: bob may buy a car today | 79 | |
| 9870292286 | compound sentence | has 2 or more main clauses ex: bob may buy a car today, but he will have to pay the ticket price | 80 | |
| 9870335225 | complex sentences | has one subordinate clause an done main clause ex: if they find one they like, bob and mary will buy a car today | 81 | |
| 9870346001 | compound complex senteces | has more than one main clause and at least one subordinate clause ex: if they find one they like, bob and mary may buy a car today, and bob will get their old one | 82 | |
| 9870372423 | coordination | using sentence structure to show equal importance between ideas ex:John has been teaching for 20 years and he has been named teacher of the year twice | 83 | |
| 9870389540 | subordination | using sentence structure to make one idea less important than another Ex:Although John has been teaching for 20 years, he has been named teacher of the year twice | 84 | |
| 9870412769 | loose sentence | a type of sentence in whih the main clause comes first, followed by dependent gramatical phrases and clauses ex: the boy chased the ball as it bounced across the street, rolled into the neighbors yard and bounced infront if spices dog house | 85 | |
| 9870446010 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end ex: sad and silent, driving for miles, settling into a worn and cramped motel room, he realizes that he no longer has a home | 86 | |
| 9870478782 | figures of speech/ tropes | a device used to produce figurative language | 87 | |
| 9870486367 | metaphor | a word or phrase comparing 2 things not using like or as | 88 | |
| 9870493719 | similie | comparing 2 things using like, as, or, if or than | 89 | |
| 9870498307 | personafacation | giving a non living things living characteristics | 90 | |
| 9870502693 | hyperbole | exaggerated statement not ment to be taken litteraly | 91 | |
| 9870509119 | conceit | an extended metaphor that compares 2 very disimilar things ex: spill the beans | 92 | |
| 9870517358 | allegory | a story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal hidden meaning ex: the tortoise and the frog | 93 | |
| 9870534440 | understatment | when writers intentionally make a situation seen less important than it really is | 94 | |
| 9870540639 | litotes | uses negative terms to express a positive statement | 95 | |
| 9870547946 | metonymy | replases the name of a thing with the name of something its closley related to ex: coke-all soda | 96 | |
| 9870558198 | synecdoche | refers to a thing by the name of one of ots parts ex: wheels instead of car | 97 | |
| 9870568672 | oxymoron | when 2 opposite words appear in a conjunction ex: Jumbo shrimp | 98 | |
| 9870579135 | Analogy | a comparison between 2 things typically for the purpose of explanation | 99 | |
| 9870595110 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is adressed by speaker ex: twinkle twinkle little star | 100 | |
| 9870613448 | Allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is comminly known ex: don't go all stalin on me | 101 | |
| 9870623028 | homily | means sermon it can include any serious, talk, speech, ot lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 102 | |
| 9870634148 | synesthia | the practice of associating 2 or more different senses in one image ex:taste of pain | 103 | |
| 9870644617 | Wit | intellectually amusing language that suprises and delights | 104 | |
| 9870657693 | Aphorism | a statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle ex: better safe than sorry | 105 | |
| 9870669901 | rhetorical question | question not ment to be answered but make you think | 106 | |
| 9870678821 | consonance | formed by repeatinf the same sound in the middle or end of a word | 107 | |
| 9870683014 | assonance | the repetation of vowel sounds in the middle of neighboring words | 108 | |
| 9870688843 | irony | the contrast between what is stated and what is ment | 109 | |
| 9870693229 | dramatic iorny | when the audience knows something the character does'nt | 110 | |
| 9870701013 | verbal iorny | when a person says the opposite of what they mean | 111 | |
| 9870705259 | situational iorny | when the event of the plot turn out differently than expected | 112 | |
| 9870718872 | Paradox | a staement that appears to be self contradictory or oppsed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth | 113 | |
| 9870732584 | Anecdate | a breif recounting of a relevant episode of experience | 114 | |
| 9870743747 | syntax | the way the authour chooses to join words into phrases, clauses and sentences | 115 | |
| 9870749987 | parallesim | sentece construction which places equal gramatical constructions near each other or repeats identical gramatical patterns | 116 | |
| 9870779521 | asyndeton | the elimination of conjunctions between phrases and clauses ex: without looking, without making a sound, without talking | 117 | |
| 9870791499 | polysendeton | using conjunction to seperate all of the items in a series ex: I walked the dog, and fed the cat, and washed the goat, and fed the cows | 118 | |
| 9870801193 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of 2 or more sentences or clause in a row | 119 | |
| 9870822613 | Chaismus | the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order is reversed ex:fair is foul and foul is fair | 120 | |
| 9870830425 | Epiphora | a word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses ex: i am an american, he is an american, and everybody here is an american | 121 | |
| 9870858167 | logical fallacy | an error in reasoning often at frst to make sense but upon futhur examination are recognized as deceptive and illogical | 122 | |
| 9870875277 | appealing to pitty | often unrelated to the issue in question, designed to distract attention from other factors which should be considered | 123 | |
| 9870893266 | Appealing to prejudice | appealing to the audience values often a distraction from the real issue | 124 | |
| 9870902991 | Appealing to tradition | appeals to maintain history and not change the accepted ways | 125 | |
| 9870910225 | Argument from analogy | uses an analogy to discus 2 different situations usually ignors important differences between 2 things being compared sometimes include | 126 | |
| 9870932504 | Ad hominem | making a personal attack on the opponet | 127 | |
| 9870942097 | appeal to doubtful authority | uses references to famous people who have no expertise | 128 | |
| 9870948329 | post hoc reasoning | also false causation, assuming that one event caused another just because it happened before it | 129 | |
| 9870964893 | begging the question | also circular reasoning restating the premise you are trying to prove | 130 | |
| 9870970943 | equivocating | using vauge or ambiguos langauge to mislead audience | 131 | |
| 9870984438 | Ignoring the question | talking about something else instead of real issues | 132 | |
| 9870987758 | false dilema | suggesting that only 2 alternatives exist when there are actually more | 133 | |
| 9870996012 | non sequitor | a "does" not follow conclusion | 134 | |
| 9871003305 | slippery slope | one step will ineviably lead to an extremly undesirable end | 135 | |
| 9871010328 | bandwagon | everyone else is doing it, you should to | 136 |
