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| 14738577767 | abstract language | language expressing a quality apart from a specific object or event; opposite of concrete language Examples: love, success, freedom, good, moral, democracy, and any -ism (chauvinism, Communism, feminism, racism, sexism) | 0 | |
| 14738577768 | alliteration | the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words |  | 1 |
| 14738577769 | allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known (event, book, myth, place, or work of art); can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. |  | 2 |
| 14738577770 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage |  | 3 |
| 14738577771 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them |  | 4 |
| 14738577772 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of sentences or neighboring clauses |  | 5 |
| 14738577773 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun |  | 6 |
| 14738577774 | antimetabole | the repetition of the same wording in successive clauses using the same words, but transposed in grammatical order; similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use the repetition of the same words or phrases |  | 7 |
| 14738577775 | antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite |  | 8 |
| 14738577776 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle in other words like a maxim like words to live by |  | 9 |
| 14738577777 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love |  | 10 |
| 14738577778 | argument | a process of reasoning and advancing proof about issues on which conflicting views may be held; also, a statement or statements providing support for a claim |  | 11 |
| 14738577779 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of coordinating conjunctions between parts of a sentence (opposite of syndeton) |  | 12 |
| 14738577780 | audience | those for whom the argument or communication is addressed/intended; this can include primary and secondary audiences |  | 13 |
| 14738577781 | authoritative warrant | a warrant based on the credibility or trustworthiness of the source |  | 14 |
| 14738577782 | caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics |  | 15 |
| 14738577783 | cause and effect | reasoning that assumes one event or condition can bring about another |  | 16 |
| 14767626930 | chiasmus | A crossing parallelism, where the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order. Does not use the same wording like antimetabole does. DIFFERENT WORDS Ex. Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. - JFK | 17 | |
| 14738577785 | claim | the conclusion of an argument; what the arguer is trying to prove |  | 18 |
| 14738577786 | clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb |  | 19 |
| 14738577787 | cliche | a worn-out expression or idea, no longer capable of producing a visual image provoking thought about a subject |  | 20 |
| 14738577788 | colloquial/colloquialism | the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing; not generally acceptable for formal writing |  | 21 |
| 14738577789 | conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects |  | 22 |
| 14738577790 | concrete language | language that describes specific, generally observable, persons, places, or things; in contrast with abstract language |  | 23 |
| 14738577791 | connotation | the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning |  | 24 |
