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| 9951851096 | Exposition | A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 0 | |
| 9951854891 | Style | The author's own personal approach to rhetoric in the piece; similar to voice. | 1 | |
| 9951860778 | Diction | The style of language used; generally tailored to be appropriate to the audience and situation. | 2 | |
| 9951865169 | Rhetoric | The use of spoken or written word (or a visual medium) to convey your ideas and convince an audience. | 3 | |
| 9951868884 | Allegory | An extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. A story with two meanings, literal meaning and symbolic meaning. | 4 | |
| 9951873885 | Extrapolate | Estimate or conclude something based on application of what is known to an unknown situation. | 5 | |
| 9951919103 | Evidence | The information presented meant to persuade the audience of the author's position. | 6 | |
| 9951921083 | Metaphor | Comparison of two UNLIKE things. | 7 | |
| 9951927175 | Syntax | The way sentences are grammatically constructed. | 8 | |
| 9951930179 | Connotation | The implied meaning of a word; words can broadly have positive, negative, or neutral meaning. | 9 | |
| 9951932087 | Synecdoche | When author's use a part of something to represent the whole. Ex. | 10 | |
| 9951946338 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to a nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 11 | |
| 9951956700 | Cliche | An overused, worn-out word or phrase and can also be an idiom, a phrase that is figurative, not literal. | 12 | |
| 9951959572 | Point-of-View | The position from which something or someone is observed or described. | 13 | |
| 9951962601 | Logical Fallacy | The use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning, or "wrong moves" in the construction of an argument. | 14 | |
| 9951969738 | Ad hominem argument | Attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, rather than attacking the facts or claims of the argument itself. | 15 | |
| 9951976553 | Ad populum argument | Conclusion that a position must be true because so many people believe it; "If many believe so, it is so." | 16 | |
| 9951980907 | Anaphora | One of the devices of repetition, in which the same phrase is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines. | 17 | |
| 9951982451 | Aphorism | A brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement or precept given in pointed words. | 18 | |
| 9951986345 | Apostrophe | Interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thing, either present or absent. Its most common purpose in prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back. | 19 | |
| 9951996792 | Red herring | Narrative element that is used to throw off readers to false conclusions. | 20 | |
| 9952000086 | Metonymy | A form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche, in which the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with (but not an actual part of) the subject with which it is to be compared. | 21 | |
| 9952012550 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that is not grammatically complete until the final clause or phrase. | 22 | |
| 9952030272 | "The wind whispers" is an example of _______________________ | Personification | 23 | |
| 9952041472 | "If I were arguing that Anne is a good student, I might reference her straight-A report card and her 1500 SAT score" is an example of ___________________________ | Evidence | 24 | |
| 9952048001 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis is an example of ______________________________________________ | Allegory | 25 | |
| 9952060242 | "My love is like a red, red rose" is an example of a ______________________ | Cliche | 26 | |
| 9952064719 | "The orders came directly from the White House." "You can't fight city hall." and "The power of the crown was mortally weakened." are all examples of ____________________________________ | Metonymy | 27 | |
| 9952073590 | "Nike is the best brand in America because so many professional athletes wear their gear" is an example of _____________________________ | Ad populum | 28 | |
| 9952123957 | You might say "What's up, loser?" to your little brother, but you would probably say "How are you doing today?" to your principal. This tailored language is an example of ____________________ | Diction | 29 | |
| 9952157508 | "Lost Time is never Found again" is an example of __________________________ | Aphorism | 30 | |
| 9952162242 | A writer might employ _________________ in order to apply human characteristics to something nonhuman, thus furthering the writer's use of imagery and figurative language. | Personification | 31 | |
| 9952164934 | "If you travel to Canada and encounter only friendly, kind natives, you might _____________________ that all Canadians are friendly." | Extrapolation | 32 | |
| 9952171839 | "I have a dream... I have a dream.... I have a dream..." by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is an example of ________________________ used in speeches. | Anaphora | 33 | |
| 9952176648 | An author might provide one or more __________________________________ intentionally to divert attention from the true object or person of interest, thereby making the conclusion to the book more of a surprise. | Red herring | 34 | |
| 9952179159 | Conscientious = positive __________________________; while fussy = negative _______________________________. | Connotation | 35 | |
| 9952183697 | You could say that Taylor Swift's songwriting ________________ is straightforward and emotive. | Style | 36 | |
| 9952198512 | "O woe, o woeful, woeful, woeful day!" is an example of _________________________ | Apostrophe | 37 | |
| 9952218748 | "She likes pie," is _________________________ simple. On the other hand, "As it so happened, when Barbara got out class early, she like to have a piece of pie -- key lime or pecan, always -- at the corner diner; while she was there she watched the people passing by the window and imagined herself inside each of the other lives, riding in their heads for moments and moments until the afternoon was whiled away and she'd become fifty people," is ______________________ (same word) complicated. | Syntax | 38 | |
| 9952261091 | "You asked what I've done to counteract global warming. In my first two years in office, we've had lower than average temperatures" is an example of ___________________ | Red herring | 39 | |
| 9952291638 | "Read between the lines" and "Roses are red, violets are blue ..." are examples of _______________________. | Cliches | 40 | |
| 9952295141 | "And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing" is an example of __________________________ | Periodic sentence | 41 | |
| 9952313988 | First person ______________________ uses the 'I' narrator and the reader knows nothing about any other people or events that this character hasn't personally experienced. | Point of view | 42 | |
| 9952345628 | "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances;" (William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7) is an example of ___________________________________ | Metaphor | 43 | |
| 9952363099 | "Pigskin" for football, from the early use of a pig's bladder to cover the football is an example of ___________________________. | Synecdoche | 44 | |
| 9952382706 | "Well, you're a thief and a criminal, so there goes your argument." is an example of _______________________. | Ad hominem | 45 |
