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| 82943952 | claim | the conclusion of an argument; what the arguer is trying to prove | |
| 82943953 | claim of fact | a claim that asserts something exists, has existed, or will exist, based on data that the audience will accept as objectively verifiable | |
| 82943954 | claim of policy | a claim asserting that specific courses of action should be instituted as solutions to problems | |
| 82943955 | claim of value | a claim that asserts some things are more or less desirable than others | |
| 82943956 | classicism | literary movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that reflected the following values of ancient Greece and Rome: an interest in balance and proportion in artistic form; an emphasis on reason and rationality rather than on emotion; dignity and restraint; objectivity; and unity of structure | |
| 82943957 | climax | the high point of emotional intensity in a work of literature | |
| 82943958 | colloquial expression | words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing and speaking | |
| 82943959 | comedy | a work of literature that is meant to be entertaining and humerous. low comedy- nonintellectual comedy that relies on slapstick behavior, ridicule, and humiliation as sources of humor high comedy- intellectual comedy that relies on the clever use of language, such as irony, sarcasm, and satire, as the source of humor | |
| 82943960 | conceit | a simile or metaphor, often fantastic, used to explain an idea or opinion | |
| 82943961 | concrete poem | poem with a shape that suggests its subject | |
| 82943962 | conflict | a struggle between opposing forces; can be internal or external | |
| 82943963 | connotation | an association that a word calls to mind in addition to its dictionary/literal meaning | |
| 82943964 | consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar vowel sounds | |
| 82943965 | context | the setting in which a story line takes place | |
| 82943966 | convention | a commonly accepted literary practice used as a device to tell a story | |
| 82943967 | couplet | a pair of rhyming verse lines equal in length | |
| 82943968 | credibility | the audience's belief in the arguer's trustworthiness (ethos) | |
| 82943969 | crisis | the decisive point in a story that sets in motion the remaining action | |
| 82943970 | crux | the part of a work, often difficult to understand, sometimes ambiguous, whose understanding is vital to understanding the whole | |
| 82943971 | dactyl | a foot with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | |
| 82943972 | damning with faint praise | intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication | |
| 82943973 | deconstruction | any work that pulls apart the conventions of a genre and shows them in a new light | |
| 82943974 | deduction (deductive reasoning) | a form of reasoning that begins with a generalization, then applies the generalization to a specific case or cases | |
| 82943975 | definition by negation | defining a thing by saying what it is not | |
| 82943976 | denotation | a word's objective meaning (dictionary meaning) |
