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| 10296021421 | Authority | Arguments that draw on recognized experts or persons with highly relevant experience. |  | 0 |
| 10296023622 | Audience | Who the author is directing his or her message towards |  | 1 |
| 10296023623 | Backing | Support or evidence for a claim in an argument |  | 2 |
| 10296024218 | Assertion | A declaration or statement |  | 3 |
| 10296025058 | Means vs Ends | How a goal is achieved |  | 4 |
| 10296026742 | Deductive reasoning | A type of logic in which specific results are predicted from a general premise. |  | 5 |
| 10296029151 | Inductive reasoning | A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | | 6 |
| 10296029831 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds |  | 7 |
| 10296029832 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |  | 8 |
| 10296030951 | Diction | Word choice |  | 9 |
| 10296031988 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |  | 10 |
| 10296032103 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |  | 11 |
| 10296032997 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing |  | 12 |
| 10296033408 | Formal | following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way |  | 13 |
| 10296034065 | Informal | Casual |  | 14 |
| 10296034975 | Concrete | existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract. |  | 15 |
| 10296035585 | Abstract | existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. |  | 16 |
| 10296036104 | Detail | Facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in the work |  | 17 |
| 10296036846 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader |  | 18 |
| 10296037382 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 19 |
| 10296039918 | Setting | The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. |  | 20 |
| 10296040751 | Figurative language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 21 |
| 10296042608 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event |  | 22 |
| 10296043179 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 23 |
| 10296043699 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 24 |
| 10296043700 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 25 |
| 10296044565 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration |  | 26 |
| 10296045528 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |  | 27 |
| 10296045837 | Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma |  | 28 |
| 10296047166 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 29 |
| 10296047634 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way |  | 30 |
| 10296048030 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |  | 31 |
| 10296048031 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant |  | 32 |
| 10296048750 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa |  | 33 |
| 10296050249 | Rhetorical modes/modes of discourse | describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking. |  | 34 |
| 10296051390 | Exemplification | Providing examples in service of a point. |  | 35 |
| 10296051921 | Cause/Effect | the principle of causation |  | 36 |
| 10296051926 | Description | a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event |  | 37 |
| 10296053111 | Process Analysis | a method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something |  | 38 |
| 10296054033 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse |  | 39 |
| 10296055592 | Comparison/Contrast | Pointing out similarities and/or differences |  | 40 |
| 10296057014 | Exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. |  | 41 |
| 10296057096 | Argumentation | exploring a problem by examining all sides of it; persuasion through reason |  | 42 |
| 10296058131 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis |  | 43 |
| 10296058734 | Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told |  | 44 |
| 10296059565 | First Person | The narrators´ Point of view | | 45 |
| 10296060008 | Second Person | The narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said, using the personal pronoun "you." |  | 46 |
| 10296060457 | Third Person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer |  | 47 |
| 10296060917 | Subjective | based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions |  | 48 |
| 10296062119 | Objective | unbiased; not subjective |  | 49 |
| 10296062120 | Syntax | Sentence structure |  | 50 |
| 10296063810 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |  | 51 |
| 10296063811 | Antithesis | Direct opposite |  | 52 |
| 10296064629 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions |  | 53 |
| 10296065584 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions |  | 54 |
| 10296066035 | Parallel sentence | repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence |  | 55 |
| 10296066450 | Periodic sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end |  | 56 |
| 10296067754 | Rhetorical question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer |  | 57 |
| 10296068536 | Inverted syntax | A literary device that changes the structure of sentences |  | 58 |
