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| 2863810756 | Ad hominem | 1. Appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason. 2. Attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument. | 0 | |
| 2863813132 | Allegory | 1. A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. 2. A symbolical narrative | 1 | |
| 2863813133 | Bias | A particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned | 2 | |
| 2863813760 | Caricature | A picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things | 3 | |
| 2863816311 | Deduction/Deductive reasoning | A process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true | 4 | |
| 3269105518 | Alliteration | Similar sounds at the beginning of words | 5 | |
| 3269105519 | Chiasmus | Reversal of words in parallel phrases | 6 | |
| 3269106160 | Denotation | Dictionary definition of a word | 7 | |
| 3269106161 | Understatement | Weak representation without a fact base | 8 | |
| 3269106946 | Transition | Used to link two or more ideas together | 9 | |
| 3269108703 | Allusion | A casual or indirect reference to something | 10 | |
| 3269108704 | Anaphora | Repetition of words at the beginning of phrases | 11 | |
| 3269110779 | Analogy | A comparison between two or more things | 12 | |
| 3269111322 | Ambiguity | Uncertain meaning | 13 | |
| 3269111880 | Anecdote | Short account of an event | 14 | |
| 3269111881 | Annotation | Noted text | 15 | |
| 3269112898 | Antecedent | Expression giving meaning to a proverb | 16 | |
| 3269112899 | Antithesis | Opposition/contrast | 17 | |
| 3269113916 | Antimetabole | Opposite turn out | 18 | |
| 3269114638 | Aphorism | Terse saying embodying the truth | 19 | |
| 3269116281 | Appositive | A word/phrase creating juxtaposition | 20 | |
| 3269116885 | Apostrophe | A digression addressing someone not present or able to respond | 21 | |
| 3269116886 | Argument | A statement, reason, or fact for or against a point | 22 | |
| 3269117790 | Anachronism | Something out of it's correct time, particularly ahead | 23 | |
| 3269117791 | Atmosphere | Dominant mood/emotional tone | 24 | |
| 3269120203 | Assertion | To suggest for consideration as true or possible | 25 | |
| 3269120204 | Assumption | A belief regarded as true, which other claims are based off | 26 | |
| 3269121002 | Asyndeton | Omissions of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses | 27 | |
| 3269121003 | Attitude | A settle way of thinking or feeling about something | 28 | |
| 3269121004 | Audience | The persons reached by a book, radio show, etc. | 29 | |
| 3269122053 | Authority | Persuasive force | 30 | |
| 3269122054 | Wit | Keen perception between ideas that awaken pleasure | 31 | |
| 3269122646 | Cite/citation | Quoting something of authority | 32 | |
| 3269124279 | Claim | To state something is the case without evidence | 33 | |
| 3269124280 | Clause | Syntactic construction with a subject and predicate forming a part of a sentence or a whole simple sentence | 34 | |
| 3269125806 | Colloquialism | Informal/familiar/ordinary way of speaking | 35 | |
| 3269125807 | Conceit | Favorable opinion of one's own ability/importance/wit | 36 | |
| 3269126503 | Concession | The act of acknowledging what is right/true/proper | 37 | |
| 3269126504 | Connotation | Personal meaning of something drawn from personal experience | 38 | |
| 3269127786 | Context | Words/surroundings that give meaning to something encompassed in them | 39 | |
| 3269202933 | Credible | Worthy of belief or confidence, trustworthy | 40 | |
| 3269202934 | Diction | Word choice | 41 | |
| 3269210479 | Didactic | Intended for instruction | 42 | |
| 3269210981 | Euphemism | The substitution of a mild expression for one more harsh | 43 | |
| 3269211892 | Elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation | 44 | |
| 3669289439 | Epigram | a witty or pointed statement that is tersely expressed | 45 | |
| 3669289440 | Extended metaphor | metaphor continuing through a story | 46 | |
| 3669290219 | Ethos | argument coming from a point of authority and drawing on morals | 47 | |
| 3669290220 | Explication of text | interpretation or explanation of text | 48 | |
| 3669291439 | Figurative language | language with figures of speech | 49 | |
| 3669291440 | Figure of speech | expression of language creating an image | 50 | |
| 3669292617 | Generic conventions | a general custom | 51 | |
| 3669292618 | Genre | a category | 52 | |
| 3669293456 | Epistrophe | repetition of words at the end of clauses or sentences | 53 | |
| 3669293457 | Homily | inspiring saying or cliche, or religious sermon | 54 | |
| 3669297040 | Hortatory | encouraging to some action | 55 | |
| 3669297041 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 56 | |
| 3669298813 | Inference/infer | a logical conclusion | 57 | |
| 3669298814 | Imagery | formation of mental images | 58 | |
| 3669300479 | Induction/inductive reasoning | form of reasoning where the conclusion does not necessarily follow the evidence | 59 | |
| 3712215206 | Invective | an insulting or offensive word or expression | 60 | |
| 3712215207 | Inversion | reversal of the usual order of words | 61 | |
| 3712216070 | Irony/ironic | words meaning the opposite of what they actually mean | 62 | |
| 3712219262 | Juxtaposition | placing things next to each other for emphasis/comparison | 63 | |
| 3712220826 | Logos | logic based argument | 64 | |
| 3727794531 | Metaphor | comparison not using like or as | 65 | |
| 3727796826 | Metonymy | a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as"scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for"strong drink," or "count heads (or noses)" for"count people.". | 66 | |
| 3727805047 | Mood | a state of feeling at a certain time | 67 | |
| 3727807024 | Modifier | a word that limits the sense of another word | 68 | |
| 3727810588 | Narrative | a story or account of events | 69 | |
| 3799151162 | Omniscient narrator | author provides inside for every character | 70 | |
| 3799152408 | Onomatopoeia | sound words | 71 | |
| 3799155216 | Oxymoron | words that contradict each other | 72 | |
| 3799156604 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | 73 | |
| 3799155217 | Parallelism | agreement in direction, tendency, or character. A comparison | 74 |
