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| 8578303096 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked solely to produce an effect and not to elicit a reply | 0 | |
| 8578310566 | Refutation | when a writer delivers relevant opposing arguments | 1 | |
| 8578332792 | Allegory | a narrative in which character, action, and setting symbolize abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story; underlying meaning usually has a moral, social, religious, or political significance | 2 | |
| 8578819545 | Metonymy | the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself ("the crown" = kingship) | 3 | |
| 8579194770 | Qualifier | a statement that indicates the force of the argument | 4 | |
| 8579207587 | Declarative Sentence | makes a statement | 5 | |
| 8579212861 | Interrogative Sentence | asks a question | 6 | |
| 8579214319 | Imperative Sentence | gives a command | 7 | |
| 8579216622 | Exclamatory Sentence | makes an interjection | 8 | |
| 8579216623 | Thesis | the central claim and overall purpose of a work | 9 | |
| 8579230276 | Bias | a predisposition or subjective opinion | 10 | |
| 8579232229 | Anecdote | a short account of an interesting or humorous incident; intended to illustrate or support a point | 11 | |
| 8579265075 | Analogy | a comparison to a directly parallel case; the process of drawing a comparison between two things based on a partial similarity of like features | 12 | |
| 8579294309 | Idiom | an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words | 13 | |
| 8579307401 | Tone | the voice and attitude the writer has chosen to project | 14 | |
| 8579314829 | Mood | the overall atmosphere of a work and how it makes a reader feel | 15 | |
| 8579393415 | Antithesis | a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas | 16 | |
| 8579422254 | Allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place - real or fictitious - or to a work of art | 17 | |
| 8579474035 | Juxtaposition | placing two ideas side by side or close together | 18 | |
| 8579502019 | Anticipating Audience Response | technique of anticipating counterarguments and offering a refutation | 19 | |
| 8579535353 | Euphemism | substitutions of an inoffensive, indirect, or agreeable expression for a word or phrase perceived as socially unacceptable or harsh | 20 | |
| 8579610087 | Paradox | a phrase or statement that while seeming contradictory or absurd my actually be well founded or true; used to attract attention or to secure emphasis | 21 | |
| 8582748888 | Cliché | an expression that through overuse has lost its power to evoke concrete images | 22 | |
| 8584720533 | Irony | the discrepancy between appearance and reality: verbal, situational, dramatic, and Socratic (a tiny dog named Giant) | 23 | |
| 8584727415 | Oxymoron | a self-contradictory combination of words (awfully good) | 24 | |
| 8584750201 | Logos | appealing to logical reasoning and sound evidence | 25 | |
| 8584756874 | Ethos | appealing to the audience's shared values | 26 | |
| 8584768225 | Pathos | evoking and manipulating emotions | 27 | |
| 8584770845 | Aphorism | a concise or tersely phrased statement in principle, truth, or opinion; found in fields like law, politics, and art | 28 | |
| 8584803425 | Deductive Reasoning | method of reasoning that moves from a general premise to a specific conclusion | 29 | |
| 8584807317 | Inductive Reasoning | method of reasoning that moves from a specific evidence to a general conclusion based on this evidence | 30 | |
| 8584817334 | Diction | choice of words in a work and an important element of style | 31 | |
| 8584821187 | Abstract Language | language describing ideas and qualities | 32 | |
| 8584831524 | Concrete Language | language describing observable, specific things | 33 | |
| 8584837826 | Colloquialism | words characteristic to familiar conversation, jargon | 34 | |
| 8584845784 | Denotation | specific, exact meaning of a word as defined | 35 | |
| 8584851709 | Connotation | the emotional implication that a word may cary | 36 | |
| 8584854098 | Polysyndeton | repetition of conjuctions in close succession | 37 | |
| 8584864190 | Synecdoche | part is used for a whole or the whole for a part ("wheels" refers to entire car) | 38 | |
| 8584868814 | Satire | genre of writing used to critique or ridicule through humor or sarcasm | 39 | |
| 8584954159 | Syntax | how a sentence is constructed | 40 | |
| 8584956680 | Simple Sentence | a complete sentence that is netiher compound, nor complex; 1 subject, 1 predicate | 41 | |
| 8584961299 | Compound Sentence | a sentence that contains 2 independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjuction | 42 | |
| 8584967343 | Complex Sentence | an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses | 43 | |
| 8584978871 | Antecedent | the word to which a pronoun referes | 44 | |
| 8584982405 | Parallelism | when the arrangement of parts of a sentence is similarly phrased or constructed | 45 | |
| 8584994158 | Loose Sentence | when a sentence is grammatically complete before its end (main point is in 1st sentence) | 46 | |
| 8584997407 | Periodic Sentence | when a sentence is not grammatically complete before its end (main point is in last sentence) | 47 | |
| 8585000912 | Anaphora | the same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more consecutive lines (every day, every night, every way) | 48 | |
| 8585005829 | Chiasmus | second half of an expression is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed (criss-cross words: fool kiss you or a kiss fool you) | 49 |
