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| 4848394126 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. |  | 0 |
| 4848394127 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 1 | |
| 4848402933 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 2 | |
| 4848404744 | Ethos | One of the fundamental strategies of argumentation identified by Aristotle. Ethos is basically an appeal to credibility. The writer is seeking to convince you that he or she has the background, history, skills, and/or expertise to speak on the issue. Whenever you encounter an ethos argument, always ask yourself is the credibility is substantiated and valid. An essay advocating policy changes on drug rehabilitation programs is more powerful is the person is a former addict or customer in a current rehab program. | 3 | |
| 4848416854 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 4 | |
| 4848416855 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 5 | |
| 4848416856 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 6 | |
| 4848419593 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 7 | |
| 4848424456 | Antithesis | A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses. | 8 | |
| 4848601126 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 9 | |
| 4848607063 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 10 | |
| 4848608803 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 11 | |
| 4848608804 | Anaphora | A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences. MLK used anaphora in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech (1963). | 12 | |
| 4848610453 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 13 | |
| 4848610454 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 14 | |
| 4848613743 | Euphemism | A polite or vague word or phrase used to replace another word or phrase that is thought of as too direct or rude. | 15 | |
| 4848615189 | Narrative structure | a textual organization based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework | 16 | |
| 4848616467 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. | 17 | |
| 4848620043 | Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 18 | |
| 4848656794 | Rhetorical structure | how a passage is constructed; organization and how author combines images, details or arguments to serve his or her purpose | 19 |
