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| 9791490847 | Active Voice | the subject of the sentence performs the verb | 0 | |
| 9791490848 | Anecdote | a brief, revealing story about an individual person or incident | 1 | |
| 9791490849 | Didactic | describes fiction, nonfiction, or poetry that teaches a lesson or moral | 2 | |
| 9791490850 | Argument | a piece of reasoning with one or more premises and a conlusion | 3 | |
| 9791490851 | Premises | statements offered as reasons to support a conclusion | 4 | |
| 9791490852 | Unstated Premises | unexpressed reasons that support a conclusion; can be problematic if not easily assumed | 5 | |
| 9791490853 | Conclusion | the main point being made; the end result of the argument | 6 | |
| 9791490854 | Concession | an acceptance of at least part of an opposing argument | 7 | |
| 9791490855 | Conditional Statement | an if-then statement that consists of two parts, an antecedent and a consequent; if _____, then _____ | 8 | |
| 9791490856 | Thesis | the sentence or groups of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition | 9 | |
| 9791490857 | Inductive Argument | argument in which premises are intended to only be so strong that, if true, it is unlikely that the conclusion is false | 10 | |
| 9791490858 | Deductive Argument | argument in which the premises are intended to be so strong that, if true, it would be impossible for the conclusion to be false | 11 | |
| 9791490859 | Valid Argument | argument in which the conclusion logically follows the premises | 12 | |
| 9791490860 | Sound Argument | argument in which both the premises are true and the conclusion logically follows the premises | 13 | |
| 9791490861 | Contradiction | occurs when one asserts two mutually exclusive or incompatible statements | 14 | |
| 9791490862 | Counterexample | an example that opposes a generalization, thus proving it false | 15 |
