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| 4732126604 | abstract learning | language describing ideas ideas and qualities rather than observable and specific things, people, or places | 0 | |
| 4732130506 | active voice | the subject of the sentence preforms the action | 1 | |
| 4732296641 | ad hominem | latin for "against the man" . when a writer personal attacks his or her opponents instead of arguments | 2 | |
| 4732297805 | allegory | a story in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts | 3 | |
| 4732299656 | alliteration | the repetition of a consonant (bill bought blue balls before Brian). | 4 | |
| 4732305875 | allusion | an indirect reference to something | 5 | |
| 4732306434 | ambiguity | an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way | 6 | |
| 4732307223 | analogy | a comparison to a directly parallel case | 7 | |
| 4732308164 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | 8 | |
| 4732309276 | anecdote | a brief recounting of a relevant episode | 9 | |
| 4732309680 | annotation | explanatory notes added to a text to explain | 10 | |
| 4732310790 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 11 | |
| 4732311345 | antithesis | two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, clauses, or ideas | 12 | |
| 4732312497 | aphorism | a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principal | 13 | |
| 4732313876 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction (liberty or love) | 14 | |
| 4732315146 | appositive | "Bill, the construction worker, was late to court" | 15 | |
| 4732317093 | argumentation | proving the validity of a point by presenting good sound evidence | 16 | |
| 4732318671 | assonance | repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 17 | |
| 4732320154 | causal relationship | a writer asserts that one thing results in another | 18 | |
| 4732320748 | clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and verb | 19 | |
| 4732321897 | colloquial | ordinary or familiar conversation | 20 | |
| 4732322384 | colloquialism | a common or familiar type of saying | 21 | |
| 4732324244 | concession | accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint | 22 | |
| 4732324865 | concrete language | describes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas and qualities | 23 | |
| 4732328195 | connotation | implied meaning rather than literal meaning | 24 | |
| 4732328618 | coordination | combining sentences/clauses into one singe sentence | 25 | |
| 4732329395 | deduction | moving from general statements we accept as true, to an inevitable conclusion | 26 | |
| 4732333592 | consonance | repetition of a constant sound within two or more words in proximity | 27 | |
| 4732335647 | denotation | to signify or stand as a name for | 28 | |
| 4732336031 | description | to recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture the being described | 29 | |
| 4732338018 | diction | word choice, particularly as an element of style | 30 | |
| 4732339105 | didactic | a term used to describe fiction, nonfiction, or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 31 | |
| 4732341686 | ellipsis | the deliberate omission of a word from prose done for effect by the author | 32 | |
| 4732343396 | emotional appeal | when a writer appeals to an audiences emotions to excite and involve them in the argument | 33 | |
| 4732345438 | epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning or a literary work suggestive of theme | 34 | |
| 4732355818 | ethical appeal | when a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him based on presentation of image of self through the text | 35 | |
| 4732358149 | euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for general unpleasant words or concepts | 36 | |
| 4732359832 | explication | the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of text | 37 | |
| 4732361416 | exposition | to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion | 38 | |
| 4732363786 | false analogy | when two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them | 39 | |
| 4732368164 | figurative language | a word or words that are inaccurate literally work fits | 40 | |
| 4732369300 | genre | the major category into which a literally work fits | 41 | |
| 4732370043 | homily | any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advise | 42 | |
| 4732371766 | hyperbole | figurative language that exaggerates | 43 | |
| 4732372763 | image | word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind | 44 | |
| 4732373952 | induction | the process of reasoning from premises that constitute good, but not absolutely certain, reasons to a conclusion that is probably correct | 45 | |
| 4732376252 | inference/infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented | 46 | |
| 4732378269 | interrogative sentence | sentences incorporating pronouns like what, which, who, whom, and whose | 47 | |
| 4732379857 | invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language | 48 | |
| 4732383350 | imperative sentence | issues a command (kick the ball now!) | 49 | |
| 4732383686 | irony | the the opposite of what you expect to happen does | 50 | |
| 4732385462 | verbal irony | when you say something and mean the opposite/something different | 51 | |
| 4732386447 | dramatic irony | when the audience of a movie, play, drama knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out | 52 | |
| 4732389159 | situational irony | found in the plot of a book, story, or movie. | 53 | |
| 4732393012 | juxtaposition | placing things side by side for the purpose of capturing and contrasting | 54 | |
| 4732393561 | metaphor | comparing two things without using like or as | 55 | |
| 4732395074 | mood | the atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice | 56 | |
| 4732396400 | non-sequitur | statement that does not logically follow another | 57 | |
| 4732397656 | objectivity | an author's stance that instances himself from person involvement | 58 | |
| 4732134993 | vernacular | language of dialect of a particular country or people | 59 | |
| 4732135758 | understatement | the ironic minimizing of fact, underestimate presents something as less significant than it is. | 60 | |
| 4732138358 | transition | smooth movement from one paragraph (or idea) to another | 61 | |
| 4732245113 | topic sentence | it either expresses the main point outright or makes the point unmistakably clear | 62 | |
| 4732247528 | tone | a writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction | 63 | |
| 4732250332 | thesis | the sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the authors opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition | 64 | |
| 4732251903 | theme | the central idea or message | 65 | |
| 4732252398 | syntax | grammatical arrangement of words; grouping of words | 66 | |
| 4732254418 | symbol/ symbolism | anything that represents or stands for something else | 67 | |
| 4732255345 | syllogism | a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises: "major" and "minor" | 68 | |
| 4732257628 | subordinate clause | a word group that contains both a subject and a verb | 69 | |
| 4732258576 | subordination | taking less important ideas and placing them in dependent clauses, and focusing on the main important idea and placing it in the independent clause | 70 | |
| 4732260781 | style | the choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes | 71 | |
| 4732261454 | simile | a figurative usage that compares using like or as | 72 | |
| 4732261917 | periodic sentence | when the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence | 73 | |
| 4732262147 | loose sentence | the main idea is introduced at or near the beginning and then modified by less important elements | 74 | |
| 4732263451 | balanced sentence | one in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale | 75 | |
| 4732265047 | compound-complex sentence | contains two or more independent clauses and at lest one dependent clause | 76 | |
| 4732266795 | complex sentence | contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 77 | |
| 4732268734 | sentence | a group of words that expresses a complete thought | 78 | |
| 4732269879 | simple sentence | contains one independent clause | 79 | |
| 4732270499 | compound sentence | contains at least two independent but no dependent clauses | 80 | |
| 4732271138 | satire | a work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect | 81 | |
| 4732272234 | sarcasm | a generally bitter moment that is ironically worded | 82 | |
| 4732273065 | rhetorical question | question not asked for information but for effect | 83 | |
| 4732274264 | rhetoric | the art of effective communication | 84 | |
| 4732274404 | repetition | reinforcing a point by repeating the point | 85 | |
| 4732276622 | refutation | when the writer musters relevant opposing arguments | 86 | |
| 4732278091 | qualification | redefining your argument so that it no longer conflicts with the valid claim of an opposing viewpoint | 87 | |
| 4732280025 | predicate nominative | a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject | 88 | |
| 4732281182 | predicate adjective | an adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb | 89 | |
| 4732282058 | persuasive writing | a type of argumentation having the additional aim of urging some form of action | 90 | |
| 4732283047 | personification | giving inhuman things human qualities | 91 | |
| 4732284177 | persona | the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story | 92 | |
| 4732285513 | pedantic | observing strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view | 93 | |
| 4732287214 | passive voice | the subject of the sentence receive the action | 94 | |
| 4732287844 | parody | an exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes | 95 | |
| 4732289786 | parenthetical idea | parentheses are use to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence | 96 | |
| 4732291571 | parallelism | sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other or repeats patterns two or more times | 97 | |
| 4732293251 | paradox | a seemingly contradictory statement which is actually true | 98 | |
| 4732294281 | oxymoron | "wise fool" "jumbo shrimp" | 99 | |
| 4732399304 | onomatopoeia | "roar" "buzz" "murmur" | 100 | |
| 4732400888 | oversimplification | when the writer denies the complexity of the idea | 101 |
