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| 8575982932 | rhetorical question | a question asked solely to produce an effect and not elicit a reply | 0 | |
| 8575982933 | refutation | when a writer delivers relevant opposing arguments | 1 | |
| 8575982934 | allegory | a narrative in which character, action, and setting represent abstracts concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story- the underlying meaning usually has a moral, social, religious, or political significance | 2 | |
| 8576018792 | metonymy | the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself | 3 | |
| 8576031022 | qualifier | a statement that indicates the force of the argument | 4 | |
| 8576033072 | declarative sentence | makes a statement (sentence type) | 5 | |
| 8576040532 | interrogative sentence | asks a question (sentence type) | 6 | |
| 8576047543 | imperative sentence | gives a command (sentence type) | 7 | |
| 8576052270 | exclamatory sentence | makes and interjection (sentence type) | 8 | |
| 8576054512 | thesis | the central claim and overall purpose of a work | 9 | |
| 8576057156 | bias | a predisposition or subjection opinion | 10 | |
| 8576059715 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting or humorous incident, intended to illustrate or support a point | 11 | |
| 8576068263 | analogy | a comparison to a directly parallel case, the process of drawing a comparison between two things based on partial simulator of like features | 12 | |
| 8576110993 | idiom | an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words | 13 | |
| 8576113954 | tone | the voice and attitude the writer has chosen to project | 14 | |
| 8576116112 | mood | the overall atmosphere of a work, how the atmosphere makes a reader feel | 15 | |
| 8576122300 | antithesis | a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas | 16 | |
| 8576125833 | allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place- real or fictitious- or to a work of art | 17 | |
| 8576133212 | juxtaposition | placing two ideas side by side or close together | 18 | |
| 8576140689 | anticipation audience response | the rhetorical technique of anticipating counterarguments and offering a refutationthe rhetorical technique of anticipating counterarguments and offering a refutation | 19 | |
| 8576142481 | euphemism | substitutions of an unoffensive, indirect, or agreeable expression for a word perceived as socially unacceptable or harsh | 20 | |
| 8576158370 | paradox | a phrase of statement that while seeming contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true. Used to attract attention or to secure emphasis | 21 | |
| 8576171384 | cliche | a timework expression that through overuse has lost its power to evoke concrete images | 22 | |
| 8576173661 | irony | the discrepancy between appearance and reality: verbal, situational, dramatic, and Socratic | 23 | |
| 8576182970 | oxymoron | a self contradictory combination of words | 24 | |
| 8578361277 | logos | appealing to logical reasoning and sound evidence | 25 | |
| 8578363623 | ethos | appealing to the audiences shared values | 26 | |
| 8578366856 | pathos | evoking and manipulating emotions | 27 | |
| 8578368898 | aphorism | a concise or tersely phrased statement in principal, truth, or opinion. Often found in fields like law, politics, and art | 28 | |
| 8578374083 | deductive reasoning | method of reasoning that moves from a general premise to a specific conclusion | 29 | |
| 8578377380 | inductive reasoning | method of reasoning that moves from specific evidence to a general conclusion based on this evidence | 30 | |
| 8578393627 | diction | choice of words in a work and an important element of style | 31 | |
| 8578395820 | abstract language | language describing ideas and qualities | 32 | |
| 8578398274 | concrete language | language describing observable, specific things | 33 | |
| 8578401431 | colloquialism | words characteristic to familiar conversation | 34 | |
| 8578406748 | denotation | specific, exact meaning of a word as defined | 35 | |
| 8578408936 | connotation | the emotional implications that a word may carry | 36 | |
| 8578410672 | polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions in close succession | 37 | |
| 8578416811 | synecdoche | part is used for a whole of the whole for a part | 38 | |
| 8578425012 | satire | genre of writing used to critique or ridicule through humor or sarcasm | 39 | |
| 8578428710 | syntax | how a sentence is constucted | 40 | |
| 8578430175 | simple sentence | a complete sentence that is neither compound , nor complex (1 subject, 1 predicate) | 41 | |
| 8578434574 | compound sentence | a sentence that contains 2 independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction | 42 | |
| 8578440904 | complex sentence | an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses | 43 | |
| 8578453868 | antecedent | the word to which a pronoun refers | 44 | |
| 8578455651 | parallelism | when the arrangement of parts of a sentence is similarly phrased or constructed | 45 | |
| 8578459856 | loose sentence | when a sentence is grammatical complete before its end | 46 | |
| 8578464047 | periodic sentence | when a sentence is NOT grammatically complete before its end | 47 | |
| 8578467749 | anaphora | the same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 of more consecutive lines | 48 | |
| 8578473108 | chiasmus | second half of an expression is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed | 49 |
