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| 13835603484 | ethos | appealing to credibility or character usually through building trust |  | 0 |
| 13835603485 | pathos | appealing to emotions usually by focusing on values or beliefs |  | 1 |
| 13835603486 | logos | appealing to common sense or logical reasoning usually by using data or statistics |  | 2 |
| 13835603487 | kairos | the timelinness of an argument in order for it to be successful |  | 3 |
| 13835603488 | rhetorical analysis | an essay that breaks a work of non-fiction into parts and then explains how the parts work together to create a certain effect—whether to persuade, entertain or inform |  | 4 |
| 13835603489 | audience | a particular group at which a film, book, advertising campaign, etc., is aimed |  | 5 |
| 13835603490 | diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing |  | 6 |
| 13835603491 | tone | the general attitude of an author, place, piece of writing, situation, etc. |  | 7 |
| 13835603492 | mood | a temporary state of mind or feeling |  | 8 |
| 13835603493 | effect | a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause |  | 9 |
| 13835603494 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language |  | 10 |
| 13835603495 | author's purpose | a writer's reason for or intent in writing that falls into one or more of the these categories: inform, persuade, entertain |  | 11 |
| 13835603496 | parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. |  | 12 |
| 13835603497 | repetition | a word, a phrase or a full sentence, or a poetical line mentioned two or more times to emphasize its significance in the entire text |  | 13 |
| 13835603498 | antithesis | two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect |  | 14 |
| 13835603499 | simile | a direct comparison, showing similarities between two different things using "like" or "as" |  | 15 |
| 13835603500 | metaphor | an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics |  | 16 |
| 13835603501 | personification | a thing - such as an idea or an animal - is given human attributes |  | 17 |
| 13835603502 | allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance |  | 18 |
| 13835603503 | understatement | something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast |  | 19 |
| 13835603504 | paradox | a statement that contradicts itself |  | 20 |
| 13835603505 | oxymoron | two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect |  | 21 |
| 13835603506 | synecdoche | a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part |  | 22 |
| 13835603507 | pun | a humorous play on words |  | 23 |
| 13835603508 | irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs |  | 24 |
| 13835603509 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word |  | 25 |
| 13835603510 | aphorism | a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner |  | 26 |
| 13835603511 | symbol | something visible that represents something invisible |  | 27 |
| 13835603512 | sarcasm | witty language used to convey minor insults |  | 28 |
| 13835603513 | maxim | a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits |  | 29 |
| 13835603514 | juxtaposition | two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts |  | 30 |
| 13835603515 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses |  | 31 |
| 13835603516 | inductive reasoning | offering evidence and then ending with a claim, or moving from specific instances into a generalized conclusion |  | 32 |
| 13835603517 | deductive | offering a claim followed by evidence to support the claim, or moving from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories |  | 33 |
| 13835603518 | invective | abusive language used to express blame or censure |  | 34 |
| 13835603519 | rhetorical question | a statement that is not supposed to be answered |  | 35 |
| 13835603520 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |  | 36 |
| 13835603521 | connotation | a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly |  | 37 |
| 13835603522 | denotation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression |  | 38 |
| 13835603523 | epiphany | the moment in the story when someone achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story |  | 39 |
| 13835603524 | anadiplosis | repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next |  | 40 |
| 13835603525 | ambiguity | the quality of being open to more than one interpretation |  | 41 |
| 13835603526 | archaism | the use of an outdated expression |  | 42 |
| 13835603527 | didactic | instructive, especially excessively |  | 43 |
| 13835603528 | chiasmus | words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form |  | 44 |
