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| 8313846205 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. |  | 0 |
| 8313846206 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. |  | 1 |
| 8313846208 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. |  | 2 |
| 8313846212 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. |  | 3 |
| 8313846214 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. |  | 4 |
| 8313846215 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. |  | 5 |
| 8313846219 | Authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. |  | 6 |
| 8313846221 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. |  | 7 |
| 8313846222 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. |  | 8 |
| 8313846223 | Close Reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. |  | 9 |
| 8313846234 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. |  | 10 |
| 8313846237 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. |  | 11 |
| 8313846240 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). |  | 12 |
| 8313846246 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. |  | 13 |
| 8313846250 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) . |  | 14 |
| 8313846258 | Pathos | A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals |  | 15 |
| 8313846263 | Premise | major, minor two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise. Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All horses are mammals. Conclusion: All horses are warm-blooded |  | 16 |
| 8313846266 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. |  | 17 |
| 8313846267 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." |  | 18 |
| 8313846268 | Rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. |  | 19 |
| 8313846269 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. |  | 20 |
| 8313846270 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience |  | 21 |
| 8313846279 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. Style: The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. Subject: In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. |  | 22 |
| 8313846280 | Subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. |  | 23 |
| 8313846281 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. |  | 24 |
| 8313846283 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. |  | 25 |
| 8313846284 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. |  | 26 |
| 8313846285 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. |  | 27 |
| 8313846287 | Topic sentence | A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis. |  | 28 |
