Mr. Carlin RHS
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| 9983930935 | Ad Hominem Argument | An argument that appeals to angry emotions rather than logic and often involves personal attacks on someone. | 0 | |
| 9983930936 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 9983930937 | Allusion | A reference to something that is commonly known, usually it is to a work of art, literature, culture or history. | 2 | |
| 9983930938 | Ambiguity | Something that can have several meanings. | 3 | |
| 9983930939 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. | 4 | |
| 9983930940 | Anastrophe | The inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect. | 5 | |
| 9983930941 | Antithesis | A figure of speech that involves the contradiction of ideas. | 6 | |
| 9983930942 | Aphorism | A short statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle. | 7 | |
| 9983930943 | Claim | A key part of an argument that states the truth or moral principle. | 8 | |
| 9983930944 | Colloquialism | Slang or informal expression- they often include local or regional dialects. | 9 | |
| 9983930945 | Connotation | The implied, suggested meaning of a word. | 10 | |
| 9983930946 | Denotation | The strict literal meaning of the word. | 11 | |
| 9983930947 | Diction | Relates to a writers style, in particular their specific choice of individual words | 12 | |
| 9983930948 | Didactic | A piece of writing that tends to be teaching or instructing. | 13 | |
| 9983930949 | Epistrophe | The repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. | 14 | |
| 9983930950 | Euphemism | More pleasant sounding words used for unpleasant words or concepts. They can often be funny. | 15 | |
| 9983930951 | Figurative language | Language which does not carry a literal meaning- hyperbole irony metaphor oxymoron personification simile. | 16 | |
| 9983930952 | Honorific Language | Words that normally convey a positive connotation. | 17 | |
| 9983930953 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated (often wildly exaggerated) speech or writing. | 18 | |
| 9983930954 | Imagery | The sensory details used in a passage to describe, arouse an emotional response or represent abstract ideas. | 19 | |
| 9983930955 | Inference/Infer | Drawing a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | 20 | |
| 9983930956 | Juxtaposition | Placing items, descriptions, or ideas close together especially for comparison or contrast. | 21 | |
| 9983930957 | Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things that does not use the words like or as. | 22 | |
| 9983930958 | Narrative | Writing that involves the telling of a story. Can be fiction or nonfiction. | 23 | |
| 9983930959 | Oxymoron | Mutually contradictory words or phrases often linked to make a point. | 24 | |
| 9983930960 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be contradictory. | 25 | |
| 9983930961 | Parallelism (Parallel Structure) | Repeating words, phrases, parts of sentences or parts of paragraphs to create a structural similarity or rhetorical cohesion. | 26 | |
| 9983930962 | Pedantic | Describes a tone that is overly scholarly, academic, bookish. | 27 | |
| 9983930963 | Pejorative Language | Words which normally convey a negative connotation. | 28 | |
| 9983930964 | Periodic Sentences | Sentences that contain numerous clauses but the meaning of the sentence cannot be understood until the last clause is read. | 29 | |
| 9983930965 | Personification | Giving human characteristics to non-human things. | 30 | |
| 9983930966 | Point of View | Describes the speaker of the story- 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person (limited or omniscient). | 31 | |
| 9983930967 | Prose | Writing that is not poetic or dramatic. It is what we read most of the time in novels, textbooks, newspaper, etc. | 32 | |
| 9983930968 | Redundancy | A word, phrase, etc., that repeats something else already stated or implied and is therefore unnecessary, superfluous repetition. | 33 | |
| 9983930969 | Rhetorical Appeal | The persuasive device used by a writer to influence his/her audience. This usually refers to Logos, Ethos, or Pathos arguments. | 34 | |
| 9983930970 | Exposition | Writing to explain and analyze. | 35 | |
| 9983930971 | Argumentation | Writing to prove an idea or point of view. Presents sound, reasoning, thoughtful discussion and insightful argument. Persuasion is one of the most common forms. | 36 | |
| 9983930972 | Description | Writing which describes the scene, thing, place or idea. Intended to create mental images for the reader. | 37 | |
| 9983930973 | Narration | Writing that takes the form of a story. | 38 | |
| 9983930974 | Rhetorical Strategies | Types and/or approaches a writer employs when making an argument. They may include strategies such as: religious appeals, appeals to personal believes, emotional appeals, use of parallelism, repetition, personal stories, anecdotes, even heavy usage statistics. | 39 | |
| 9983930975 | Simile | A comparison between unlike things using the words like or as. | 40 | |
| 9983930976 | Subject Verb Inversion | Sentences in which the verb appears before the subject. They are often identified by opening a sentence with the phrase, there are colon. | 41 | |
| 9983930977 | Syllogism | A deductive system of logic that involves a series of statements that lead to a logical conclusion. Some are based on unfair or false premises that lead to incorrect conclusions. | 42 | |
| 9983930978 | Syntax | Your arrangement of words in a sentence: this can involve short, brief direct sentences or long complex sentences. This can also involve the type of sentences - questions, exclamations, declarative, etc. | 43 | |
| 9983930979 | Understatement | Presents something as less important than it is, often used for comic effect. | 44 | |
| 9983930980 | Grammar | Rules on how language is used. | 45 | |
| 9983930981 | Etymology | History of when words first came into use. | 46 |
