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| 7189289171 | alliteration | tongue twister; close words starting with same letter | 0 | |
| 7189289172 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize | 1 | |
| 7189289174 | analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect | 2 | |
| 7189289186 | claim | an arguable statement, which may be a claim of fact, value, or policy. | 3 | |
| 7189289265 | cliche | a worn-out idea or overused expression. E.g. "finding your way" | 4 | |
| 7189289192 | conjunction | The part of speech (or word class) that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences. Example: FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so | 5 | |
| 7189289193 | connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word; emotional meaning behind a word. E.g. Red signifies passion. | 6 | |
| 7189289195 | denotation | dictionary meaning of a word; E.g. Red is a color in the light spectrum. | 7 | |
| 7189289196 | dialect | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people (how people talk depending on where they are) | 8 | |
| 7189289197 | diction | word choice | 9 | |
| 7189289199 | ethos | the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator | 10 | |
| 7189355902 | evidence | supporting examples, anecdotes, quotations that help prove a claim | 11 | |
| 7189289205 | figurative language/ figures of speech | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | 12 | |
| 7189289208 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 13 | |
| 7189289209 | imagery | descriptions that appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell | 14 | |
| 7189289212 | irony | (unexpected twist) a use of words in which the intended meaning is very different from the literal sense; an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs, esp. one that suggests a lesson about human folly | 15 | |
| 7189318112 | logos | appealing to a reader's sense of logic | 16 | |
| 7189289216 | metaphor | comparison | 17 | |
| 7189289219 | mood | atmosphere; feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage | 18 | |
| 7189289220 | narrative | story | 19 | |
| 7189289222 | onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum. | 20 | |
| 7189289227 | pathos | a quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow | 21 | |
| 7189289229 | personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 22 | |
| 7189289230 | point of view | the perspective from which a story is told | 23 | |
| 7189356384 | reasoning | the way a writer explains how evidence supports a claim | 24 | |
| 7189289235 | rhetoric | study of persuasion | 25 | |
| 7189289236 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 26 | |
| 7189289239 | simile | comparing two things using like or as | 27 | |
| 7189289244 | symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | 28 | |
| 7189289248 | tone | author's attitude | 29 |
