14647907324 | Appeals | earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy | 0 | |
14647907325 | Assessment | evaluation | 1 | |
14647907326 | Audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 2 | |
14647907327 | attitude | manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind | 3 | |
14812367949 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 4 | |
14952958281 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event. Ex: the author used a llusion to compare his work | 5 | |
14952958282 | Diction | word choice. Ex: the professors diction was hard to understand | 6 | |
14952958283 | archaic | ancient; old-fashioned. Ex: The old ladies house was archaic | 7 | |
14952958284 | Antithesis | Direct opposite. Ex: He did the antithesis as his friend | 8 | |
14952958285 | Bias | A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific. Ex: she was bias to her opinion | 9 | |
15038347484 | Ethos | 10 | ||
15174591970 | Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 11 | |
15174591971 | hardship | severe suffering or deprivation | 12 | |
15174591972 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 13 | |
15174591973 | Polemic | controversy; argument; verbal attack | 14 | |
15174591974 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 15 | |
15725425577 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 16 | |
15725425578 | Cliche | trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, | 17 | |
15725425579 | Colloquialism | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. | 18 | |
15725425580 | Elegiac | used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy | 19 | |
15725425581 | Jargon | language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group | 20 |
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