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| 7664490787 | narrative | A story that makes a point, illustrates a principle, or explains something. The event serves as evidence in support of your thesis. | 0 | |
| 7664490788 | occasion | The time, place and circumstances in which the writing (or speaking) takes place | 1 | |
| 7664490789 | oxymoron | Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory; the figure conjures a new way of seeing or understanding | 2 | |
| 7664490790 | paradox | Figure that employs an apparent contradiction which, nonetheless, evokes some measure of truth; a statement which seems at one level to be nonsensical because it moves against a normalcy. | 3 | |
| 7664490791 | parallelism | Figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure. | 4 | |
| 7664490792 | passive voice | type of sentence or clause in which the subject receives the action of the verb | 5 | |
| 7664490793 | pathos | appeal to emotion | 6 | |
| 7664490794 | paradox | the application of human attributes or abilities to nonhuman entities | 7 | |
| 7664490795 | primary source | an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study | 8 | |
| 7664490796 | pronoun | A word that stands in place of a noun; skillful use helps to establish ethos | 9 |
