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| 4443951405 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 0 | |
| 4443951408 | Chiasmus | the opposite of parallel construction; inverting the second of the two phrases that would otherwise be in parallel form. | 1 | |
| 4443951412 | Colloquialism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 2 | |
| 4443951422 | Diction | Word choice. | 3 | |
| 4443951424 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). | 4 | |
| 4443951425 | Euphemism | substitution of an inoffensive word or phrase for another that would be harsh, offensive, or embarrassing. A euphemism makes something sound better than it is but is usually more wordy than the original. | 5 | |
| 4443951427 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. | 6 | |
| 4443951437 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 7 | |
| 4443951438 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) . | 8 | |
| 4443951439 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 9 | |
| 4443951442 | Mood | feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for a reader | 10 | |
| 4443951443 | Motif | a recurring subject, theme, or idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work | 11 | |
| 4443951448 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 12 | |
| 4443951449 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 13 | |
| 4443951451 | Pathos | A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and logos). | 14 | |
| 4443951453 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 15 | |
| 4443951454 | Point of view | perspective of the speaker or narrator in a literary work | 16 | |
| 4443951462 | Rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. | 17 | |
| 4443951464 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle). | 18 | |
| 4443951469 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 19 | |
| 4443951471 | Speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing. | 20 | |
| 4443951475 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 21 | |
| 4443951479 | Syntax | Sentence structure. | 22 | |
| 4443951481 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 23 | |
| 4443951484 | Voice | In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing. | 24 |
