10300521837 | Authority | Someone who hold power over another person; a leader | ![]() | 0 |
10300521838 | Audience | ![]() | 1 | |
10300521839 | Backing | Support or evidence for a claim in an argument | ![]() | 2 |
10300521840 | Assertion | A declaration or statement | ![]() | 3 |
10300521841 | Means vs Ends | How a goal is achieved | ![]() | 4 |
10300521842 | Deductive reasoning | A type of logic in which specific results are predicted from a general premise. | ![]() | 5 |
10300521843 | Inductive reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | ![]() | 6 |
10300521844 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | ![]() | 7 |
10300521845 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | ![]() | 8 |
10300521846 | Diction | Word choice | ![]() | 9 |
10300521847 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | ![]() | 10 |
10300521848 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | ![]() | 11 |
10300521849 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | ![]() | 12 |
10300521850 | Formal | following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way | ![]() | 13 |
10300521851 | Informal | Casual | ![]() | 14 |
10300521852 | Concrete | existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract. | ![]() | 15 |
10300521853 | Abstract | existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. | ![]() | 16 |
10300521854 | Detail | Facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in the work | ![]() | 17 |
10300521855 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | ![]() | 18 |
10300521856 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | ![]() | 19 |
10300521857 | Setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. | ![]() | 20 |
10300521858 | Figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | ![]() | 21 |
10300521859 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | ![]() | 22 |
10300521860 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | ![]() | 23 |
10300521861 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | ![]() | 24 |
10300521862 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | ![]() | 25 |
10300521863 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | ![]() | 26 |
10300521864 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | ![]() | 27 |
10300521865 | Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma | ![]() | 28 |
10300521866 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | ![]() | 29 |
10300521867 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | ![]() | 30 |
10300521868 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | ![]() | 31 |
10300521869 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | ![]() | 32 |
10300521870 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | ![]() | 33 |
10300521871 | Rhetorical modes/modes of discourse | describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking. | ![]() | 34 |
10300521872 | Exemplification | Providing examples in service of a point. | ![]() | 35 |
10300521873 | Cause/Effect | the principle of causation | ![]() | 36 |
10300521874 | Description | a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event | ![]() | 37 |
10300521875 | Process Analysis | a method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something | ![]() | 38 |
10300521876 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse | ![]() | 39 |
10300521877 | Comparison/Contrast | Pointing out similarities and/or differences | ![]() | 40 |
10300521878 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | ![]() | 41 |
10300521879 | Argumentation | exploring a problem by examining all sides of it; persuasion through reason | ![]() | 42 |
10300521880 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | ![]() | 43 |
10300521881 | Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told | ![]() | 44 |
10300521882 | First Person | The narrators´ Point of view | ![]() | 45 |
10300521883 | Second Person | The narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said, using the personal pronoun "you." | ![]() | 46 |
10300521884 | Third Person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer | ![]() | 47 |
10300521885 | Subjective | based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions | ![]() | 48 |
10300521886 | Objective | unbiased; not subjective | ![]() | 49 |
10300521887 | Syntax | Sentence structure | ![]() | 50 |
10300521888 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | ![]() | 51 |
10300521889 | Antithesis | Direct opposite | ![]() | 52 |
10300521890 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | ![]() | 53 |
10300521891 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | ![]() | 54 |
10300521892 | Parallel sentence | repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence | ![]() | 55 |
10300521893 | Periodic sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | ![]() | 56 |
10300521894 | Rhetorical question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer | ![]() | 57 |
10300521895 | Inverted syntax | A literary device that changes the structure of sentences | ![]() | 58 |
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