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| 6987430492 | Ad Misericordiam | An appeal to the audience's sympathy; an attempt to persuade another, using a hard-luck story rather than logic or reason | 0 | |
| 6987430493 | Anecdote | A short and often personal story used to emphasize a point, to develop a character or theme, or to interject humor | 1 | |
| 6987430494 | Aphorism | A terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle; sometime considered a folk proverb | 2 | |
| 6987430495 | Attitude | The author's feelings toward the topic he or she is writing about; often used interchangeably with "tone" and is usually revealed through word choice. | 3 | |
| 6987430496 | Audience | The intended group of readers / listeners / viewers of a text. | 4 | |
| 6987430497 | Cause and Effect | noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others. | 5 | |
| 6987430498 | Circumlocution | an ambiguous or paradoxical way of expressing things, ideas or views; "talking around" or "talking in circles." Discussing something in an indirect way, without directly referencing the subject. | 6 | |
| 6987430499 | Dialect | The language used by the people of a specific area, class, district or any other group of people. | 7 | |
| 6987430500 | Ethos | represents credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved. | 8 | |
| 6987430501 | Foreshadowing | a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. | 9 | |
| 6987430502 | Kairos | in Ancient Greek meant "time" - but it wasn't just any time. It was exactly the right time for whatever event was happening. In modern literature, it refers to making exactly the right statement at exactly the right moment. | 10 | |
| 6987430503 | Logos | a literary device that can be defined as a statement, sentence or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic | 11 | |
| 6987430504 | Misdirection | Deliberately misguiding the audience in order to conceal information, usually to build suspense | 12 | |
| 6987430505 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. The common oxymoronic phrase is a combination of an adjective preceded by a noun with contrasting meanings | 13 | |
| 6987430506 | Pathos | a quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow. Pathos can be expressed through words, pictures or even with gestures of the body | 14 | |
| 6987430507 | Purpose | a person's reason for writing, such as to inform, entertain, explain, or persuade. | 15 | |
| 6987430508 | Rhetoric | a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form | 16 | |
| 6987430509 | Rhetorical Devices | Rhetorical figures or devices are employed to achieve particular emphasis and effect. Rhetorical devices, however, are different from "figures of speech". Wherever and whenever a figure of speech is used in written texts and speech, it alters meanings of words. For example, the metaphor used in the expression "He is a tiger," is a complete altered form of a simple idea "He is brave." | 17 | |
| 6987430510 | Speaker | voice in a poem; the person or thing that is speaking; The speaker should not be confused with the author. Speakers are often fictional personas used to accomplish the purpose of the text. | 18 | |
| 6987430511 | Universality | That quality in a work of art which enables it to transcend the limits of the particular situation, place, time, person and incident in such a way that it may be of interest, pleasure and profit (in the non-commercial sense) to all people at any time in any place. | 19 | |
| 6987430512 | Ambiguous | open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal | 20 | |
| 6987430513 | Elixir | a magical liquid that can cure illness or extend life | 21 | |
| 6987430514 | Forestall | to stop (something) from happening or to cause (something) to happen at a later time: to act before (someone else) in order to prevent something | 22 | |
| 6987430515 | Importunity | an importuning or being importunate; persistence in requesting or demanding | 23 | |
| 6987430516 | Tumultuously | loud, excited, and emotional: involving a lot of violence, confusion, or disorder | 24 |
