10185840059 | Authority | Influence denote a power or right to direct the actions of others | 0 | |
10185848089 | Audience | Listeners, spectators | 1 | |
10185848550 | Backing | Support provided for the warrant | 2 | |
10185849593 | Assertion | Positive statement regarding a belief or a fact | 3 | |
10185849594 | Means Vs. Ends | Any action carried out for the sole purpose of achieving something else | 4 | |
10185850603 | Deductive Reasoning | Logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true | 5 | |
10185850604 | Inductive Reasoning | A conclusion reached through reasoning | 6 | |
10185851204 | Alliteration | Two or more words in a phase or line of poetry share the same beginning sound | 7 | |
10185851205 | Tone | The way the author expresses his attitude through his writing | 8 | |
10185851206 | Diction | The style of speaking that a writer, speaker, or character uses | 9 | |
10247030558 | Denotation | Refers to the literal, dictionary definition of a word | 10 | |
10247032514 | Connotation | Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly | 11 | |
10247032515 | Colloquial | The us of informal words, phrases, or even slang in a piece of writing | 12 | |
10247033019 | Formal | Logical pattern that includes as much information as it can within a minimum amount of space | 13 | |
10247033020 | Informal | Relaxed tone and simple words | 14 | |
10247033021 | Concrete | Constituting an actual thing or instance | 15 | |
10247033436 | Abstract | Refers to words or phrases that name things not knowable through the five senses | 16 | |
10185851853 | Detail | Sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste the author use to describe specific things | 17 | |
10247049157 | Mood | Element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions | 18 | |
10247049158 | Imagery | Language and description that appeals to our five sense | 19 | |
10247049180 | Setting | the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction | 20 | |
10185852406 | Figurative Language | Metaphors, similes, and and allusions | 21 | |
10247056711 | Allusion | Figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds. | 22 | |
10247056712 | Simile | Figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things | 23 | |
10247057577 | Metaphor | The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as | 24 | |
10247057578 | Personification | Form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics | 25 | |
10247057612 | Hyperbole | The use of over-exaggeration for the purpose of creating emphasis or being humours, but it is not intended to be taken literally | 26 | |
10247057965 | Understatement | Figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is | 27 | |
10247057966 | Paradox | Statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow | 28 | |
10247091354 | Verbal Irony | When what is said is the opposite of the literal meaning | 29 | |
10247091355 | Analogy | Creates a relationship based on parallels or connections between two ideas | 30 | |
10247091363 | Anecdote | Short and interesting story, or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh | 31 | |
10247091865 | Metonymy | Type of metaphor in which an object is used to describe something that its closely related to it | 32 | |
10247091866 | Synecdoche | When a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part | 33 | |
10185853232 | Rhetorical Modes/Modes Of Discourse | Narration, description, exposition, and argumentation | 34 | |
10247102203 | Exemplification | A showing or illustrating by example | 35 | |
10247102204 | Cause/Effect | A cause-effect relationship is a relationship in which one event makes another event happen | 36 | |
10247102205 | Description | A text that explains the features of something | 37 | |
10247102845 | Process Analysis | Is 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 | |
10247102846 | Narration | The use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience | 39 | |
10247103266 | Comparison/Contrast | When a writer compares or contrasts two people, places, things, or ideas | 40 | |
10247103267 | Expositon | Used in television programs, films, literature, poetry, plays and even music | 41 | |
10247103268 | Argumentation | A brief summary, often in prose or section of a poem or other work | 42 | |
10247104208 | Repetition | Could be a word, a phrase, or a full sentence, pr a poetical line repeated to emphasize its significance in the entire text | 43 | |
10185854084 | Point Of View | Refers to who is telling a story, or who is narrating it | 44 | |
10247118402 | First Person | A point of view where the story is narrated by one character at a time | 45 | |
10247118403 | Second Person | A point of view where the narrator tells the story to another character using the word "you" | 46 | |
10247118404 | Third Person | A point of view where the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character | 47 | |
10247118979 | Subjective | Point of view is something based on one's opinions, perspectives, beliefs, discoveries, desires, and feelings | 48 | |
10247118980 | Objective | Not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice | 49 | |
10185854085 | Syntax | Refers to the actual way in which words and sentences are places together in the writing | 50 | |
10247132275 | Anaphora | The repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech | 51 | |
10247132276 | Antithesis | Opposite and is used to put two contrasting ideas together | 52 | |
10247132908 | Asyndeton | A writing style where conjunctions are omitted in a series of words, phrases, or clauses | 53 | |
10247132909 | Polysndeton | Technique in which conjunctions are used repeated in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed | 54 | |
10247133157 | Parallel sentence | Repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance | 55 | |
10247133596 | Periodic sentence | Has the main clause or predicate at the end | 56 | |
10247133597 | Rhetorical question | A question you ask without expecting an answer | 57 | |
10247134215 | Inverted syntax | Formed exclamations | 58 |
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