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| 5753680597 | ethos | the author's credibility | 0 | |
| 5753681867 | logos | using evidence to support an argument | 1 | |
| 5753683156 | pathos | the author's use of language to elicit an emotional response in readers | 2 | |
| 5753685047 | metaphor | a comparison that doesn't use like or as and compares two unlike things | 3 | |
| 5753687340 | simile | a comparison that uses like or as | 4 | |
| 5753688565 | analogy | when a thing or idea is compared to something quite different from it | 5 | |
| 5753692327 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-constructed sentences | 6 | |
| 5753702971 | loose sentence | when the subject of sentence is elaborated on by modifying clauses or phrases | 7 | |
| 5753707886 | compound sentence | 2 independent clauses | 8 | |
| 5753710119 | complex sentence | one or more independent/dependent clauses in a sentence | 9 | |
| 5753714511 | periodic sentence | main clause or predicate is at the end of the sentence | 10 | |
| 5753718278 | simple sentence | one independent clause | 11 | |
| 5753722911 | parenthetical statement | explains or qualifies something | 12 | |
| 5753728147 | metonymy | substitution of a name for an attribute of the thing itself (suit for business executive) | 13 | |
| 5753733361 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a term or a part of somwthing refers to the whole thing (all hands on deck) | 14 | |
| 5753740288 | synesthesia | a technique used to present ideas, characters or places in a way that appeals to more than one of the 5 senses | 15 | |
| 5753745853 | personification | the technique of taking something inanimate and giving it human qualities | 16 | |
| 5753750525 | hyperbole | over exaggeration | 17 | |
| 5753750526 | litote | under exaggeration | 18 | |
| 5753756033 | compound-complex sentence | 2 or more independent clauses and one dependent clause | 19 | |
| 5753762473 | diction | style of speaking or writing | 20 | |
| 5753765125 | asyndeton | a lack of conjuctions | 21 | |
| 5753765616 | polysyndeton | overuse of conjunctions | 22 | |
| 5753767568 | tone | the author's attitude | 23 | |
| 5753768498 | apostrophe | the speaker addresses an imaginary character/figure (death, mother nature, etc) | 24 | |
| 5753774672 | alliteration | when the first letter of every word is the same | 25 | |
| 5753775545 | assonance | repitition of a vowel sound or dip-thong in non-rhyming word | 26 | |
| 5753782151 | syllogism | a rhetorical device that starts an argument with something general and draws a conclusion about something more specific | 27 | |
| 5753788113 | zeugma | when a word, usually a verb or adjective, applies to more than one noun blending together gramatically and logically different ideas | 28 | |
| 5753795614 | caesura | a pause in a line of poetry caused by the rhythms of natural speech instead of meter | 29 | |
| 5753798312 | tricolon | the sacred three | 30 | |
| 5753800311 | rhetorical question | a question that doesn't expect an answer | 31 | |
| 5753801109 | connotation | the "vibe" a word gives off, positive or negative | 32 | |
| 5753802495 | denotation | the actual definition of a word | 33 |
