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| 7884738268 | Persona | The character created or adopted by the writer | 0 | |
| 7884753012 | Warrant | Unstated assumptions or underlying beliefs shared by the speaker and the audience. These beliefs may be explicitly stated or implied. The warrant establishes a common ground and helps to ensure reliability of the claims made by the speaker. | 1 | |
| 7884889111 | Diction | Refers to the writer's word choice- contributes to style, tone, and meaning | 2 | |
| 7884893643 | High Diction | Academic, formal, specific to a specialized area | 3 | |
| 7884897375 | Middle Diction | Common language that still holds formalities | 4 | |
| 7884900694 | Low Diction | includes colloquial language or dialects | 5 | |
| 7884933458 | Didactic Language | Writing intended to teach or instruct- didactic works focus on moral or ethical principles | 6 | |
| 7884965164 | Pentadic Language | Words or phrases or a general tone that is overly scholarly or bookish | 7 | |
| 7885013486 | invective | emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong language, when one shouts invectives, they generally display a loss of logic. | 8 | |
| 7885049034 | Conceit | A fanciful poetic expression or ingenious comparison that is usually elaborate or exaggerated. The difference between conceit and a metaphor is the conceit is intended to be poetic and fanciful. | 9 | |
| 7885074323 | Homily | A sermon intended to edify an an audience on a practical manner. Does not have to be theological | 10 | |
| 7885116391 | Metonymy | A figure of speech using substitution in which a word is used for a concept or associated object/idea suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing | 11 | |
| 7885138508 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon further inspection contains some degree of truth or validity | 12 | |
| 7885156557 | personification | The use of human qualities to characterize non human objects or concepts | 13 | |
| 7885186273 | Aphorism | Brief witty saying exposing some sort of truth | 14 | |
| 7885188835 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech often occurring in a play, directly addressing an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction. The audience connects with this abstraction. | 15 | |
| 7885212265 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech combining two terms that would normally contradict each other- sometimes an oxymoron can also be a paradox ( the living dead) | 16 |
