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| 8585777649 | rhetorical question | a question asked solely to produce an effect and not to elicit a reply | 0 | |
| 8585852332 | refutation | when a writer delivers relevant opposing arguments | 1 | |
| 8585858984 | allegory | a narrative in which character, action, and setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story - the underlying meaning usually has a moral, social, religious, or political significance | 2 | |
| 8585877844 | metonymy | the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself | 3 | |
| 8585886961 | qualifier | a statement that indicates the force of the arguement | 4 | |
| 8585889359 | declarative sentence | makes a statement (sentence type) | 5 | |
| 8585893145 | interrogative sentence | asks a question (sentence type) | 6 | |
| 8585895525 | imperative sentence | gives a command (sentence type) | 7 | |
| 8585899802 | exclamatory sentence | makes an interjection (sentence type) | 8 | |
| 8585903056 | thesis | the central claim and overall purpose of a work | 9 | |
| 8585906749 | bias | a predisposition or subjective opinion | 10 | |
| 8585909410 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting or humorous incident, intended to illustrate or support a point | 11 | |
| 8585916111 | analogy | a comparison to a directly parallel case; the process of drawing a comparison between two things based on a partial similarity of like features | 12 | |
| 8585925373 | idiom | an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words | 13 | |
| 8585930539 | tone | the voice and attitude the writer has chosen to project | 14 | |
| 8585935890 | mood | the overall atmosphere of a work and the mood is how that atmosphere makes a reader feel | 15 | |
| 8585940660 | antithesis | a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas | 16 | |
| 8585947968 | allusion | a brief reference to a person, event, or place - real or fictitious - or a work of art | 17 | |
| 8585953404 | juxtaposition | placing two ideas side by side or close together | 18 | |
| 8586133756 | anticipating audience response | the rhetorical technique of anticipating counterarguments and offering a refutation | 19 | |
| 8586139836 | euphemism | substitutions of an inoffensive, indirect, or agreeable expression for a word or phrase perceived as socially unacceptable or harsh | 20 | |
| 8586148432 | paradox | a phrase or statement that while seeming contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true. Used to attract attention or to secure emphasis | 21 | |
| 8586160691 | cliche | a timeworn expression that through overuse has lost its power to evoke concrete images | 22 | |
| 8586164777 | irony | the discrepancy between appearance and reality: verbal, situational, dramatic, and socratic | 23 | |
| 8586170248 | oxymoron | a self-contradictory combination of words | 24 | |
| 8586173731 | logos | appealing to logical reasoning and sound evidence | 25 | |
| 8586200843 | ethos | appealing to the audience's shared values | 26 | |
| 8586176896 | pathos | evoking and manipulating emotions | 27 | |
| 8586179059 | aphorism | a concise or tersely phrased statement in principle, truth, or opinion. Often found in fields like law, politics, and art | 28 | |
| 8586209072 | deductive reasoning | method of reasoning that moves from a general premise to a specific conclusion | 29 | |
| 8586214614 | inductive reasoning | method of reasoning that moves from specific evidence to a general conclusion based on this evidence | 30 | |
| 8586222237 | diction | choice of words in a work and an important element of style | 31 | |
| 8586227371 | abstract language | language describing ideas and qualities | 32 | |
| 8586234302 | concrete language | language describing observable, specific things | 33 | |
| 8586240094 | colloquialism | words characteristic to familiar conversation | 34 | |
| 8586247884 | denotation | specific, exact meaning of a word as defined | 35 | |
| 8586254339 | connotation | the emotional implications that a word may carry | 36 | |
| 8586257473 | polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions in close succession | 37 | |
| 8586298810 | synecdoche | part is used for a whole or the whole for a part | 38 | |
| 8586300705 | satire | genre of writing used to critique or ridicule through humor or sarcasm | 39 | |
| 8586305200 | syntax | how a sentence is constructed | 40 | |
| 8586313039 | simple sentence | a complete sentence that is neither compound, nor complex ( 1 subject, 1 predicate) | 41 | |
| 8586317869 | compound sentence | a sentence that contains 2 independent clauses joined by one or more dependent clauses | 42 | |
| 8586331649 | complex sentence | an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses | 43 | |
| 8586322924 | antecedent | the word to which a pronoun refers | 44 | |
| 8586336821 | parallelism | when the arrangement of parts of a sentence is similarly phrased or constructed | 45 | |
| 8586342643 | loose sentence | when a sentence is grammatically complete before its end | 46 | |
| 8586345842 | periodic sentence | when a sentence is not grammatically complete before its end | 47 | |
| 8586348625 | anaphora | the same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more consecutive lines | 48 | |
| 8586351778 | chiasmus | second half of an expression is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed | 49 |
