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| 254699815 | Absolute | a term applied to anything that cannot be modified, qualified, or limited. | |
| 254699816 | Abstract | language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or place; the observable or "physical" is usually described in concrete language. | |
| 254699817 | Ad Hominem | a fallacy of name calling; arguing against the presenter of the argument rather than the subject of the argument. | |
| 254699818 | Affliation | the author's stated or implied membership of or allegiance with a group. | |
| 254699819 | Alliteration | a figure of speech in which consonant sounds at the beginning of words are repeated. | |
| 254699820 | Allusion | a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event- real or fictional. | |
| 254699821 | Ambiguity | the presence of two or more possible meanings (either intended or inadvertent) in any passage. | |
| 254699822 | Anadipolsis | repetition of the last word of one line or clause to the beginning of the next. | |
| 254699823 | Analogy | reasoning or arguing from parallel cases. | |
| 254699824 | Anaylsis of Cause | when a writer asserts that one thing results from another in order to show how one thing produces or brings about another is often relevant in establishing a logical argument. | |
| 254699825 | Anaphora | repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | |
| 254699826 | Anecdote | a short, often autobiographical, narrative told to achieve a purpose such as to provide an example, an illustration, or a thematic truth. | |
| 254699827 | Anticipation | general name for argumentative strategies whereby a speaker or writer foresees and replies to objections. | |
| 254699828 | Anticlimax | an abrupt shift from a noble tone to a less exalted one- often for comic effect. | |
| 254699829 | Antirrhesis | rejecting an argument because of its insignificance, error, or wickedness; a type of refutation. | |
| 254699830 | Antithesis | juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in blanced phrases or clauses. | |
| 254699831 | Antonomasia | substitution of a title, epithet, or descriptive phrase for a proper name- or of a personal name for a common name- to designate a member of a group or class. | |
| 254699832 | Aphorism | short, pithy statement of a general truth, one that condenses common experience into memorable form. | |
| 254699833 | Aporia | a figure of speech in which the speaker expressess real or simulated doubt or perplexity. | |
| 254699834 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. | |
| 254699835 | Archetype | a term applied to an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore and is, therefore, believed to evoke profound emotion because it touvhes the unconcious memory and thus calls into play illogical but strong responses. | |
| 254699836 | Assonance | identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. | |
| 254699837 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. | |
| 254699838 | Authority | arguments that draw on recognized experts or persons with highly relevant experience. | |
| 254699839 | Bdelygmia | a litany of abuse- a series of critical epithets, descriptions, or attributes; a type of invective. | |
| 254699840 | Categoria | direct exposure of an adversary's faults. | |
| 254699841 | Chiasmus | a verbal pattern (a type of antithesis) in whihch the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed. | |
| 254699842 | Climax | a gradual increase in intensity of meaning with words arranged in ascending order of force or importance. | |
| 254699843 | Colloquialism | an expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing, lying between the upper level of dignified, formal, academic, or "literary" language, and the lower level of slang. | |
| 254699844 | Commoratio | emphasizing a point by repeating it several times in different words. | |
| 254699845 | Conceit | extending a metaphor through an entire speech or passsage so that objects, persons, and actions in the text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text. | |
| 254699846 | Concession | argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer accepts an opposing argument as true, valid, or accurate or leaves a disputed point to the audience or reader to decide. | |
| 254699847 | Concrete Language | language that describes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas or qualities. | |
| 254699848 | Connotation | the emotional implications and associations that a word may carry, in contrast to its denotative meaning. | |
| 254699849 | Contrast | compare or appraise in respect to differences. | |
| 254699850 | Cumulative Sentence/ Loose | this sentence makes complete sense if brought to a close before its actual ending, beginning with the main ideas and then expanding on that idea with a series of details or other particulars. | |
| 254699851 | Deductive Structure | a method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from general to specific. | |
| 254699852 | Dehortatio | dissuasive advice given with authority; compare with diatyposis. | |
| 254699853 | Denotation | the direct or dictionary meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings. | |
| 254699854 | Diatyposis | recommending useful precepts or advice to someone else; compare with dehortatio. | |
| 254699855 | Didactic | a term used to describe fiction or nonfiction that teached a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking; a tone intended to instruct or moralize. | |
| 254699856 | Direct Address | to speak to the audience; may be revealed by the use of second person. | |
| 254699857 | Distinctio | explicit references to various meanings of a word- usually for the purpose of removing ambiguities. | |
| 254699858 | Dramatic Irony | this occurs when reader knows something about present or future circumstances that a character in the story does not know. | |
| 254699859 | Dysphemism | substitution of a more offensive or disparaging word or phrase for one considered less offensive. | |
| 254699860 | Effectio | a detailed personal description; a head-to0toe inventory of a person's physical attributes or charms. | |
| 254699861 | Ellipsis | omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader. | |
| 254699862 | Enthymeme | an ustated argument, an informally stated syllogism with an implied premise. | |
| 254699863 | Epanalepsis | reptition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word or phrase with which it begins. | |
| 254699864 | Epicrisis | circumstance in which a speaker quotes a passage and comments on it. | |
| 254699865 | Epimone | frequent repetition of a phrase or question; dwelling on a point. | |
| 254699866 | Epiplexis | asking questions to reproach rather than to elicit answers. | |
| 254699867 | Epistrophe | repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses. | |
| 254699868 | Epithet | using an appropriate adjective to characterize a person or thing. | |
| 254699869 | Epizeuxis | reptition of a word or phrase for emphasis (usually with no words in between.). | |
| 254699870 | Ethos | persuasive appeal (one of the three artistic primary appeals) based on the character or projected character of the speaker or writer. | |
| 254699871 | Invented Ethos | in classical rhetoric, proofs from character that are created by a rhetor or are available by virture of the rhetor's poisition on an issue. | |
| 254699872 | Situational Ethos | in classical rhetoric, proof from character that depends on a rhetor's reputation in the community. | |
| 254699873 | Euphemism | subsitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensivel explicit. | |
| 254699874 | Exigence | the author's motivation, the need or problem that needs to be fulfilled or solved that causes the writer to erite and the speaker to speak. | |
| 254699875 | Exposition | a mode of writing in whihch the purpose of th author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader. | |
| 254699876 | Exuscitatio | emotional utterance that seeks to move hearers to a like feeling. | |
| 254699877 | Gradatio | sentence construction in which the last word of one clause becomes the first of the next, through three or more clauses. | |
| 254699878 | Hortatory Subjunctive | the salad subjunctive "let us" is the inclusive use of the third person plural to create an affiliation with the audience. | |
| 254699879 | Hyperbole | an extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. | |
| 254699880 | Hypophora | raising questions and answering them. | |
| 254699881 | Idiom | a use of words, a construction peculiar to a given language or an expression that cannot be translated literally into a second language. (How do you do?.). | |
| 254699882 | Imperative | a request or command. | |
| 254699883 | Inductive Structure | a method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from the specific instances to a general conclusion. | |
| 254699884 | Invective | abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something. | |
| 254699885 | Juxtaposition | a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another for comparison or contrast. | |
| 254699886 | Kairos | the opportune time and/or place, the right or appropriate time to say or do the right or appropriate thing. | |
| 254699887 | Listing | to record a series to phrases, ideas, or things for the purpose of ovewhelming the opposition's stated or anticipated argument(s.). | |
| 254699888 | Litotes | a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. | |
| 254699889 | Logos | in classical rhetoric, the means of persuasion by demonstration of the truth, real or apparent- an attempt to argue based on relationships (eg. cause/effect, deductive reasoning) a reader will find hard to refute. | |
| 254699890 | Meiosis | to belittle, use a degrading epithet or nickname, often through a trope of one word; a concise form of invective; a kind of understatement that dismisses or belittles, especially by using terms that maek something seem less significant than it really is or ought to be. | |
| 254699891 | Metaphor | an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. | |
| 254699892 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is ubstituted for another with which it is closely associated with (such as "crown" for "royalty".). | |
| 254699893 | Mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule; to imitate. | |
| 254699894 | Mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. | |
| 254699895 | Motif | a recurring feature in the work. | |
| 254699896 | Non Sequitur | a logical fallacy or humor; a comment that has no relation to the preceding comment or to an ongoing discussion or topic. | |
| 254699897 | Paralepsis | emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it. | |
| 254699898 | Pedantic | a tone that manifests reliance on book learning and formal rules over understanding or experience of practical affairs. | |
| 254699899 | Periodic | long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word- usually with an emphatic climax. | |
| 254699900 | Peroration | the closing part of an argument, often with a summary and an appeal to pathos. | |
| 254699901 | Persona | voice or mask that an author or speaker or performer puts on for a particular purpose. | |
| 254699902 | Ploce | repetition of a word with a new or specified ssense, or with pregnant reference to its special significance. | |
| 254699903 | Polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings. | |
| 254699904 | Prolepsis | figurative device by which a future event is presumed to have already occured. | |
| 254699905 | Rapport | the relationship an author tries to develop with his or her audience relation marked by harmony, conformity, accord, or affinity. | |
| 254699906 | Rebuttal/ Refutation | the part of the argument wherein a speaker or writer anticipates and counters opposing points of view. | |
| 254699907 | Rhetoric | the art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse - when a writer or speaker achieves his or her purpose with his or her audience through the skillful manipulation of text or speech. | |
| 254699908 | Sensory Language | writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses. | |
| 254699909 | Situational Irony | a trope in which accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as a poetic justice of a TV weather presenter getting caught in a suprise rainstorm. | |
| 254699910 | Skotison | intentionally obscure speech or writing, designed to obfuscate meaning and to confuse an audience rather than clarify an issue. | |
| 254699911 | Sprezzatura | the rehearsed spontaneity, studied carelessness, and well-practiced naturalness that underlies convincing discourse. | |
| 254699912 | Syllepsis/Zeugma | a kind of ellipsis in which one word (usually a verb) is understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies of governs. use of a word to modify or govern two or m ore words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one. | |
| 254699913 | Syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, minor premise, and a conclusion. | |
| 254699914 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it. | |
| 254699915 | Synesthesia | the concurrent response of two or more senses to the stimulation of one. | |
| 254699916 | Tenor | the underlying idea or the principal subject that is the meaning of a metaphor. | |
| 254699917 | Understatement | a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. | |
| 254699918 | Vehicle | the figure that carries the meaning of a metaphor. in a metaphor, the figure itself that is being described. | |
| 254699919 | Verbal Irony | a trope in which a writer makes a statement in which the actual meaning differs from the meaning that words appear to express. |
