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| 15025245051 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 0 | |
| 15025252549 | Style | A basic and distinctive mode of expression. | 1 | |
| 15025255491 | Tone | the attitude a writer takes toward a subject | 2 | |
| 15025455432 | point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told | 3 | |
| 15025750891 | Rhetoric | effective writing or speaking | 4 | |
| 15025764357 | Logos | Appeals to deductive reasoning. Appeal to reason and logic. | 5 | |
| 15025773477 | Ethos | establishing credibility | 6 | |
| 15025776764 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 7 | |
| 15025776765 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 8 | |
| 15025782658 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 9 | |
| 15025786529 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 10 | |
| 15025786530 | Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 11 | |
| 15025791526 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 12 | |
| 15025807199 | extended metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 13 | |
| 15025810793 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. | 14 | |
| 15025816358 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 15 | |
| 15025816359 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 16 | |
| 15025821206 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 17 | |
| 15025827730 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 18 | |
| 15025832061 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 19 | |
| 15025836228 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 20 | |
| 15025838911 | bombast | pompous or pretentious talk or writing | 21 | |
| 15025838912 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 22 | |
| 15025949658 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it.A famous example is, "The pen is mightier than the sword," from Edward Bulwer Lytton's play Richelieu. This sentence has two metonyms: "Pen" stands for "the written word." "Sword" stands for "military aggression." Metonyms are members of the figurative language | 23 | |
| 15025955108 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa- Examples would be "threads" and "wheels" for clothes and car... | 24 | |
| 15025961047 | Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. | 25 | |
| 15025966424 | Aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 26 | |
| 15025966425 | malapropism | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | 27 | |
| 15025971787 | Circumlocution | an indirect way of expressing something | 28 | |
| 15026042717 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 29 | |
| 15026048385 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 30 | |
| 15026053065 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant- often sarcastic | 31 | |
| 15026055733 | Sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 32 | |
| 15026108137 | Situational irony | An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected | 33 | |
| 15026108138 | satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | 34 | |
| 15026116569 | Ad populum | This fallacy occurs when evidence boils down to "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do." | 35 | |
| 15026119588 | Ad hominem | a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute | 36 | |
| 15026185017 | Equivocation | the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself | 37 | |
| 15026216643 | Slippery Slope | A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented | 38 | |
| 15026220313 | Red Herring | A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion | 39 | |
| 15026223262 | Straw Man | When a writer argues against a claim that nobody actually holds or is universally considered weak. | 40 | |
| 15026227249 | Faulty Causality | Incorrect assumption that one event caused another event | 41 | |
| 15026230631 | Begging the Question | A rhetorical fallacy where an assumption which is not proven is used as evidence that the conclusion is correct... Example: "high altitude skiing is such a dangerous sport (evidence) that no one under the age of 18 should be allowed to do it (conclusion)." This would only be a logical argument if the writer had proven this to be true with facts, statistics, etc. | 42 | |
| 15026236941 | non sequitur | Latin for "It doesn't follow"- the conclusion is not logically related to the evidence that preceded it. Example: "Violent crime is up in the city, and there is little the police can do to stop it. Therefore, we should build more private schools." | 43 | |
| 15026236942 | Hasty Generalization | a fallacy in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence | 44 | |
| 15026256569 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, historical event, literary work- especially the Bible, or a work of art | 45 | |
| 15026256570 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 46 | |
| 15037551805 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 47 | |
| 15037551806 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 48 | |
| 15037561263 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 49 |
