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| 2810471558 | allegory | extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text | 0 | |
| 2810473774 | alliteration | the repetition of an initial consonant sound | 1 | |
| 2810474402 | allusion | a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event. real or fictional | 2 | |
| 2810475405 | ambiguity | the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage | 3 | |
| 2810475978 | analogy | reasoning or arguing from parallel cases | 4 | |
| 2810477538 | anaphora | the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning or successive clauses or verses | 5 | |
| 2810478107 | antecedent | the noun or noun phrase referred to by a pronoun | 6 | |
| 2810479539 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced prhases | 7 | |
| 2810480122 | aphorism | 1. a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion 2. a brief statement of a principle | 8 | |
| 2810481570 | apostrophe | a rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing | 9 | |
| 2810482424 | appeal to authority | a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or insitution | 10 | |
| 2810483939 | appeal to ignorance | a fallacy that uses an opponent's inability to disprove a conclusion as proof of the conclusions correctness | 11 | |
| 2810486752 | assonance | the identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words | 12 | |
| 2810487208 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses | 13 | |
| 2810488222 | chiasmus | verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed | 14 | |
| 2810491583 | circular argument | an argument that commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove | 15 | |
| 2810492840 | claim | an arguable statement, which may be a claim of fact, value, or policy | 16 | |
| 2810493682 | clause | a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate | 17 | |
| 2810494498 | climax | mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel construction with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of a series of events | 18 | |
| 2810495962 | colloquial | characteristic of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language as distinct from formal or literary english | 19 | |
| 2810497830 | concession | an argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent's point | 20 | |
| 2810498704 | connotation | the emotional implications and associations that a word may carry | 21 | |
| 2810499486 | deduction | a method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises | 22 | |
| 2810500736 | denotation | the direct or dictionary meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings | 23 | |
| 2810502100 | dialect | a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, and/or vocabulary | 24 | |
| 2810503504 | diction | 1. the choice and use of words in speech or writing 2. a way of speaking, usually assessed in terms of prevailing standards of pronunciation and elocution | 25 | |
| 2810506693 | didactic | intended or inclined to teach or instruct, often excessively | 26 | |
| 2810507637 | epiphora (epistrophe) | the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses | 27 | |
| 2810509085 | epitaph | 1. a short inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone or monument 2. a statement or speech commemorating someone who has died | 28 | |
| 2810511279 | ethos | a persuasive appeal based on the projected character of the speaker or narrator | 29 | |
| 2810512472 | eulogy | a formal expression of praise for someone who has recently died | 30 | |
| 2810513080 | euphemism | the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit | 31 | |
| 2810513789 | extended metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem | 32 | |
| 2810515210 | fallacy | an error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid | 33 | |
| 2810515856 | false dilemma | a fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options when in fact more options are available | 34 | |
| 2810525290 | flashback | a shift in a narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological development of a story | 35 | |
| 2810526767 | hasty generalization | a fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence | 36 | |
| 2810553787 | hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement | 37 | |
| 2810555028 | imagery | vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses | 38 | |
| 2810555892 | invective | denunciatory or abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something | 39 | |
| 2810557816 | irony | the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. a statement or situation where the meaning is directly contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea | 40 | |
| 2810559317 | jargon | the specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders | 41 | |
| 2810559958 | litotes | a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite | 42 | |
| 2810561150 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common | 43 | |
| 2810561979 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (crown and royalty) | 44 | |
| 2810563028 | mode of discourse | the way in which information is presented in a text. the for traditional modes are narration, description, exposition, and argument. | 45 | |
| 2810563533 | mood | 1. the quality of a verb that conveys the writer's attitude towards a subject 2. the emotion evoked by a text | 46 | |
| 2810564537 | onomatopoeia | the formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to | 47 | |
| 2810565198 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side | 48 | |
| 2810566065 | paradox | a statement that appears to contradict itself | 49 | |
| 2810567075 | parallelism | the similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 50 | |
| 2810568243 | parody | a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule | 51 | |
| 2810568747 | pathos | the means of persuasion that appeals to the audience's emotions | 52 | |
| 2810570008 | personification | a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities | 53 | |
| 2810572965 | prose | ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | 54 | |
| 2810573372 | refutatuon | the part of an argument where in a speaker or writer anticipates and counters opposing points of view | 55 | |
| 2810573643 | repetition | an instanceof using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage- dwelling on a point | 56 | |
| 2810574742 | rhetoric | the study and practice of effective communication | 57 | |
| 2810575304 | rhetorical question | a question asked merely for effect with no answer expected | 58 | |
| 2810575901 | sarcasm | a mocking, often ironic or satirical remark | 59 | |
| 2810576132 | satire | a textor performance that uses irony,derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity | 60 | |
| 2810576802 | simile | a figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as" | 61 | |
| 2810577943 | style | narrowly interpreted as those figures that ornament speech or writing; broadly as representing a manifestation or the person speaking or writing | 62 | |
| 2810579414 | syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion | 63 | |
| 2810579947 | symbol | a person, place, action, or thing that represents something other than itself | 64 | |
| 2810581145 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part | 65 | |
| 2810581484 | syntax | 1. the arrangement of words in a sentence 2. the study of the rules that govern the way words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | 66 | |
| 2810583106 | thesis | the main idea of an essay or report, often written as a single declarative sentence | 67 | |
| 2810583908 | tone | a writer's attitude toward the subject and audience. tone is primarily conveyed through diction, point of view, syntax, and level of formality | 68 | |
| 2810584487 | transition | the connection between two parts of a piece of writing, contributing to coherence | 69 |
