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| 6980533975 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 6980538127 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event | 1 | |
| 6980540238 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 6980541774 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 6980543783 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 6980545490 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 6980546518 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 6980562770 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 7 | |
| 6980563864 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 6980573677 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth | 9 | |
| 6980576921 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 10 | |
| 6980578952 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 11 | |
| 6980583011 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 6980588991 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 6980592216 | Assertion | An emphatic statement;declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 14 | |
| 6980594485 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 6980597073 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 16 | |
| 6980600199 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 6980601455 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 6980603959 | Authority | A reliable, respected source-someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 6983920596 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 20 | |
| 6983922881 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 21 | |
| 6983930144 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 6983941983 | Close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text | 23 | |
| 6983949019 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language | 24 | |
| 6983950283 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions | 25 | |
| 6983955393 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 6983959155 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding | 27 | |
| 6983961486 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning | 28 | |
| 6983963690 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 29 | |
| 6983965941 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 30 | |
| 6983976904 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 6983979085 | Cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
| 6983988053 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement | 33 | |
| 6983989979 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 6983995126 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 35 | |
| 6983995819 | Diction | Word choice | 36 | |
| 6984192579 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 37 | |
| 6984195782 | Elegiac | Mournful over what passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 38 | |
| 6984198035 | Epigram | A brief witty statement | 39 | |
| 6984199206 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's rhetorical appeals | 40 | |
| 6984202132 | Figurative Language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 41 | |
| 6984205701 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning | 42 | |
| 6984209592 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 43 | |
| 6984210764 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, | 44 | |
| 6984215122 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands | 45 | |
| 6984219616 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general | 46 | |
| 6984221017 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject | 47 | |
| 6984221872 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 48 | |
| 6984226530 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 49 | |
| 6984228449 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 50 | |
| 6984232794 | 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 | 51 | |
| 6984240298 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 52 | |
| 6984243005 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing | 53 | |
| 6984244584 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | 54 | |
| 6984246317 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 55 | |
| 6984248723 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 56 | |
| 6984249857 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 57 | |
| 6984253638 | 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 | 58 | |
| 6984256707 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 59 | |
| 6984258130 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | 60 | |
| 6984259877 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 61 | |
| 6984260691 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 62 | |
| 6984265069 | Premise | major, minor Two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise | 63 | |
| 6984269244 | Major premise | All mammals are warm-blooded | 64 | |
| 6984270734 | Minor premise | All horses are mammals | 65 | |
| 6984274348 | Conclusion | All horses are warm-blooded | 66 | |
| 6984276510 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 67 | |
| 6984279920 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 68 | |
| 6984280856 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 69 | |
| 6984284137 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 70 | |
| 6984284971 | 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 | 71 | |
| 6984289700 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer | 72 | |
| 6984293320 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 73 | |
| 6984295278 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 74 | |
| 6984296763 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 75 | |
| 6984297943 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 76 | |
| 6984302164 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 77 | |
| 6984303110 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 78 | |
| 6984311757 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause | 79 | |
| 6984314130 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information | 80 | |
| 6984315390 | 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 | 81 | |
| 6984321882 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 82 | |
| 6984327590 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 83 | |
| 6984330391 | Subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 84 | |
| 6984333739 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 85 | |
| 6984335200 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise | 86 | |
| 6984336486 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 87 | |
| 6984337698 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex | 88 | |
| 6984339057 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 89 | |
| 6984341811 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit | 90 | |
| 6984342822 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 91 | |
| 6984343832 | Topic sentence | A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis | 92 | |
| 6984347076 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 93 | |
| 6984348038 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 94 | |
| 6984348848 | 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 | 95 | |
| 6984350666 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more | 96 |
