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| 34792807 | tricolon | any series of three cordinate items | |
| 34792808 | anaphora | repetition at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses | |
| 34792809 | asyntedon | deliberate omission of a conjunction | |
| 34792810 | epistrophe | repetition of words appear at the end | |
| 34792811 | tetracolon | a succession of four coordinate items | |
| 34792812 | antithesis | balanced pairing of opposites | |
| 34792813 | chiasmus | balanced pair of phrases or clauses in which the order of the elements in the first pair is reversed in the second pair | |
| 34792814 | oxymoron | the juxtaposition of two normally incompatible words; two word paradox | |
| 34792815 | polysnydeton | the use of more conjunctions than is normal | |
| 34792816 | pun | a word used in two senses simultaneously, usually one literal and one figurative | |
| 34792817 | synchises | balanced pair of phrases or clauses in which the order of the first pair is repeated in the second pair | |
| 34792818 | tautology | the repetition of an idea in two words that are nearly synonymous | |
| 34792819 | zeugma | the use of a single word to refer to or to describe two different words in a sentence resulting in two different meanings | |
| 34982075 | rhetoric | the study of efffective, persuasive language use; "available means of persuasion" | |
| 34982076 | audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | |
| 34982077 | context | the occasion or the time and place it was written or spoken | |
| 34982078 | purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | |
| 34982079 | bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | |
| 34982080 | speaker | author, speaker, or person whoe perspective is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | |
| 34982081 | rhetorical (Aristotelian) triangle | interaction among subject, speaker and audience and how this interaction determines the structure and language of the arguement | |
| 34982082 | subject | the topic addressed in a piece of writing | |
| 34982083 | persona | the character the speaker creates when he or she writes or speaks | |
| 34982084 | ethos | appeal to character of a person | |
| 34982085 | logos | appeal to logic | |
| 34982086 | assumption | underlying belief | |
| 34982087 | counterarguement | to anticipate objections or opposing views | |
| 34982088 | tone | speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | |
| 34982089 | pathos | appeals to emotion | |
| 34982090 | polemical | an arguement against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics or religion | |
| 34982091 | close reading | analysis of a text | |
| 34982092 | colloquialisms | an informal or conversationial use of language | |
| 34982093 | diction | word choice | |
| 34982094 | syntax | sentence structure | |
| 34982095 | trope | artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | |
| 34982096 | scheme | artful syntax | |
| 34982097 | annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text | |
| 34982098 | imagery | vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses | |
| 34982099 | dialectical journal | a double-column journal in which one writes a quotation in one colun and reflections on that quotation in the other column | |
| 34982100 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | |
| 34982101 | complex sentence | sentence that contains a subordinate clause | |
| 34982102 | declarative sentence | make statements | |
| 34982103 | hortative sentence | language that urges or calls to action | |
| 34982104 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command, enjoin, implore or entreat | |
| 34982105 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | |
| 34982106 | alliteration | repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence | |
| 34982107 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictious, or to a work of art | |
| 34982108 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on | |
| 34982109 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence | |
| 34982110 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisions or contrasts | |
| 34982111 | metaphor | figure of speech that says on thing is another in order to explain by comparison | |
| 34982112 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses | |
| 34982113 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | |
| 34982114 | personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | |
| 34982115 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer |
