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| 10454967384 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 10454968282 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 10454969290 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 2 | |
| 10454970549 | Ancedote | A short account of an interesting event. | 3 | |
| 10454973106 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 4 | |
| 10454973309 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 5 | |
| 10454975625 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 6 | |
| 10454978539 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 7 | |
| 10454981565 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. | 8 | |
| 10454984532 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 9 | |
| 10454985716 | Archaic Dictation | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 10 | |
| 10454987124 | Aristotelian Triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the argument. | 11 | |
| 10454988182 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 12 | |
| 10455002160 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 13 | |
| 10455003228 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 14 | |
| 10455010042 | Attitude | The speakers position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 15 | |
| 10455014450 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 16 | |
| 10455018244 | Authority | A reliable, respected source - someone with knowledge. | 17 | |
| 10455020254 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 18 | |
| 10455038381 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 19 | |
| 10455040177 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 20 | |
| 10455041984 | Close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. | 21 | |
| 10455054071 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 22 | |
| 10455074238 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or portions. | 23 | |
| 10455075207 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 24 | |
| 10455082927 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 25 | |
| 10455091401 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (see denotation) | 26 | |
| 10455092261 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 27 | |
| 10455102428 | Coordinattion | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as "and", or "but". | 28 | |
| 10455116766 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 29 | |
| 10455117886 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 30 | |
| 10455120661 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. | 31 | |
| 10455121018 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 32 | |
| 10455127833 | Diciton | Word Choice | 33 | |
| 10455128074 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 34 | |
| 10455128656 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 35 | |
| 10455133698 | Epigram | A brief, witty statement. | 36 | |
| 10455134470 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos) | 37 | |
| 10455136152 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 38 | |
| 10455146514 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 39 | |
| 10455152896 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 40 | |
| 10455154128 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader;s senses(sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 41 | |
| 10455156940 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 42 | |
| 10455176491 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general | 43 | |
| 10455177100 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 44 | |
| 10455177722 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 45 | |
| 10455179219 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 46 | |
| 10455179553 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) | 47 | |
| 10455181049 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as thought it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 48 | |
| 10455184200 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 49 | |
| 10455184539 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 50 | |
| 10455185221 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 51 | |
| 10455214971 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 52 | |
| 10455216379 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 53 | |
| 10455219965 | 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 (see ethos and logos) | 54 | |
| 10459093952 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 55 | |
| 10459094357 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 56 | |
| 10480191004 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. | 57 | |
| 10480191440 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 58 | |
| 10480191441 | 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. | 59 | |
| 10480192008 | major premise | all mammals are warm-blooded | 60 | |
| 10480192432 | Minor premise | All horses are mammals | 61 | |
| 10480196251 | Conclusion | All horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism) | 62 | |
| 10480197409 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 63 | |
| 10480197410 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 64 | |
| 10480197812 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. | 65 | |
| 10480198702 | Rhetoric | The art of speaking or writing effectively | 66 | |
| 10480198703 | 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 argument | 67 | |
| 10480199232 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer | 68 | |
| 10480199804 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle) | 69 | |
| 10480202277 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 70 | |
| 10480202759 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions -- such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 71 | |
| 10480236685 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 72 | |
| 10480236692 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 73 | |
| 10480237156 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 74 | |
| 10480237602 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information | 75 | |
| 10480237733 | Speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 76 | |
| 10480238618 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | 77 | |
| 10480238999 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 78 | |
| 10480239547 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 79 | |
| 10480239548 | subordinate clause | A clause that modifies an independent clause, created by a subordinating conjunction | 80 | |
| 10480240122 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 81 | |
| 10480241640 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major premise and a minor premise. | 82 | |
| 10480241863 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 83 | |
| 10480242125 | synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 84 | |
| 10480243175 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 85 | |
| 10480243480 | thesis statement | a statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit | 86 | |
| 10480243882 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 87 | |
| 10480244299 | 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 | 88 | |
| 10480244542 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 89 | |
| 10480244543 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 90 | |
| 10480245337 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetorical, distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 91 | |
| 10480245751 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs — often in different, sometimes incongruent ways — two or more words in a sentence. | 92 |
