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| 11334334550 | Cumulative (Loose) Sentence | begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause. These phrases or clauses add information to the main or independent clause. | 0 | |
| 11334334551 | Periodic Sentence | a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense. |  | 1 |
| 11334334552 | Litotes/Understatement | a figure of speech in which a negative statement is used to affirm a positive statement. | 2 | |
| 11334334553 | Syllogism | A logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion. |  | 3 |
| 11334334554 | Equivocation | a fallacy of argument in which a lie is given the appearance of truth, or in which the truth is misrepresented in deceptive language. | 4 | |
| 11334334555 | Refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument. | 5 | |
| 11334334556 | Diction | a speaker's choice of words. Analysis of diction looks at these choices and what they add to the speaker's message. | 6 | |
| 11334334557 | Simile | a figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something else, using words like, as, or as though. |  | 7 |
| 11334334558 | Metaphor | figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as. | 8 | |
| 11334334559 | Rhetoric | it is the art of finding ways of persuading an audience. | 9 | |
| 11334334560 | Allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) to to a work of art. | 10 | |
| 11334334561 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point. | 11 | |
| 11334334562 | Personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. | 12 | |
| 11334334563 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 13 | |
| 11334334564 | Antithesis | opposition, or contrast or ideas or words in a parallel construction. | 14 | |
| 11334334565 | Non sequitor | a fallacy of argument in which claims, reasons, or warrants fail to connect logically; one point doesn't follow from another. | 15 | |
| 11334334609 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 16 | |
| 11334334610 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells"). |  | 17 |
| 11334334611 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. |  | 18 |
| 11334334612 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 19 | |
| 11334334613 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 20 | |
| 11334334614 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) | 21 | |
| 11334334615 | Apostrophe | A prayer like figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. | 22 | |
| 11334334616 | Atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. | 23 | |
| 11334334617 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 24 | |
| 11334334618 | Colloquial/Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. | 25 | |
| 11334334619 | Literary Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects; displays intellectual cleverness through unusual comparisons that make good sense | 26 | |
| 11334334620 | Connotation | The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. | 27 | |
| 11334334621 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | 28 | |
| 11334334622 | Didactic | in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way. | 29 | |
| 11334334623 | Euphemism | From the Greek for "good speech," euphemisms are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept - POLITICALLY CORRECT | 30 | |
| 11334334624 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 31 | |
| 11334334625 | Figurative Language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid | 32 | |
| 11334334626 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. | 33 | |
| 11334334627 | Homily | This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | 34 | |
| 11334334628 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. | 35 | |
| 11334334629 | Inference/infer | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | 36 | |
| 11334334630 | Invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 37 | |
| 11334334631 | Irony/ironic | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. | 38 | |
| 11334334632 | Mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. | 39 | |
| 11334334633 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 40 | |
| 11334334634 | onomatopoeia | A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. | 41 | |
| 11334334635 | Oxymoron | is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. | 42 | |
| 11334334636 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. | 43 | |
| 11334334637 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 44 | |
| 11334334638 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish (language that might be described as "show-offy"; using big words for the sake of using big words). | 45 | |
| 11334334639 | Prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. | 46 | |
| 11334334640 | Repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 47 | |
| 11334334641 | Sarcasm | Involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. | 48 | |
| 11334334642 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | 49 | |
| 11334334643 | Subordinate clause | Like all clauses, this word group contains both a subject and a verb (plus any accompanying phrases or modifiers), but unlike the independent clause, this clause cannot stand alone; it does not express a complete thought. | 50 | |
| 11334334644 | Symbol/symbolism | Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else. | 51 | |
| 11334334645 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 52 | |
| 11334334646 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. | 53 | |
| 11334334647 | Thesis | The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position. | 54 | |
| 11334334648 | Tone | Describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. | 55 | |
| 11334334649 | Transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas. Used especially, although not exclusively, in expository and argumentative writing, effectively signal a shift from one idea to another. | 56 | |
| 11334334650 | Wit | in modern usage, intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights. | 57 | |
| 11334334651 | Anecdote | A brief story that illustrates or makes a point | 58 | |
| 11334334566 | Style | The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. | 59 | |
| 11334334567 | stream of consciousness | A technique in which the writer records thoughts and emotions as they come to mind, without giving order or structure | 60 | |
| 11334334568 | Semantics | Studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development (etymology), their connotations, and their relation to one another. | 61 | |
| 11334334569 | Motif | a dominant theme, subject, or idea which runs through a piece of literature | 62 | |
| 11334334570 | voice | "Sound" of the writer's style relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active and passive). | 63 | |
| 11334334571 | Predicate | the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject | 64 | |
| 11334334572 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 65 | |
| 11334334573 | Inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 66 | |
| 11334334574 | Abstract Language | Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places. | 67 | |
| 11334334575 | annotation | A brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of a text or work of literature. | 68 | |
| 11334334576 | Appositive | A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning | 69 | |
| 11334334577 | attitude | The feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or idea | 70 | |
| 11334334578 | Cliché | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought. | 71 | |
| 11334334579 | concrete detail/ concrete language | A highly specific, particular, often real, actual, or tangible detail | 72 | |
| 11334334580 | dependent clause | A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb | 73 | |
| 11334334581 | Gerund | A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun | 74 | |
| 11334334582 | digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing | 75 | |
| 11334334583 | Explication | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language. | 76 | |
| 11334334584 | Red Herring | When a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue | 77 | |
| 11334334585 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 78 | |
| 11334334586 | Trope | A figure of speech in which the use of a word or phrase other than in its literal meaning changes the meaning of a sentence. That is turning the meaning of a sentence another way by the use of a word(s). | 79 | |
| 11334334587 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 80 | |
| 11334334588 | Straw Man | A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea. | 81 | |
| 11334334589 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage | 82 | |
| 11334334590 | situational irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 83 | |
| 11334334591 | Persona | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 84 | |
| 11334334592 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 85 | |
| 11334334593 | Oversimplification | Reducing an idea too much so it loses the point trying to be made | 86 | |
| 11334334594 | Objectivity | treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices | 87 | |
| 11334334595 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 88 | |
| 11334334596 | grotesque | comically or repulsively ugly or distorted | 89 | |
| 11334334597 | freight train | Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions. | 90 | |
| 11334334598 | Exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. | 91 | |
| 11334334599 | Ethos | Method of persuasion that argues to seek common ground of shares morals or values in the audience | 92 | |
| 11334334600 | Epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme. | 93 | |
| 11334334601 | epigram | a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting and surprising satirical statement | 94 | |
| 11334334602 | Pathos | a method of convincing people with an argument drawn out through an emotional response | 95 | |
| 11334334603 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 96 | |
| 11334334604 | common knowledge | Shared beliefs or assumptions between the reader and the audience. | 97 | |
| 11334334605 | causal relationship | In __, a writer asserts that one thing results from another. To show how one thing produces or brings about another is often relevant in establishing a logical argument. | 98 | |
| 11334334606 | begging the question | a fallacy of logical argument that assumes as true the very thing that one is trying to prove | 99 | |
| 11334334607 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 100 | |
| 11334334608 | ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 101 |
