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| 14667933005 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 14667938349 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 14667939000 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 2 | |
| 14667940256 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 14667941558 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 14667942973 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 5 | |
| 14667943504 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 6 | |
| 14667944399 | Antithesis | The direct opposite, a sharp contrast. | 7 | |
| 14667945212 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. | 8 | |
| 14667946258 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 9 | |
| 14667947600 | Archaic Diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 10 | |
| 14667949058 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. | 11 | |
| 14667949802 | Aristotelian Triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle). | 12 | |
| 14667951528 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 13 | |
| 14667952210 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 14 | |
| 14667954240 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 15 | |
| 14667955787 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. | 16 | |
| 14667956842 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 17 | |
| 14667957821 | Authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 18 | |
| 14667958625 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 19 | |
| 14667959536 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 20 | |
| 14667962439 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. | 21 | |
| 14667963393 | Close Reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. | 22 | |
| 14667964047 | Colloquialism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 23 | |
| 14667964508 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 24 | |
| 14667965430 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 25 | |
| 14667966774 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 26 | |
| 14667967892 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (see denotation). | 27 | |
| 14667968605 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 28 | |
| 14667969129 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 29 | |
| 14667970524 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 30 | |
| 14667971830 | Cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 31 | |
| 14667972915 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 32 | |
| 14667973923 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. | 33 | |
| 14667974649 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. | 34 | |
| 14667976286 | Diction | Word choice. Documentation: Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 35 | |
| 14667976663 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 36 | |
| 14667978180 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. | 37 | |
| 14667979397 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). | 38 | |
| 14667981018 | Exigence | Issue or situation that demands prompt action or remedy. | 39 | |
| 14667983870 | Explicit | Fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied. | 40 | |
| 14667985113 | Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 41 | |
| 14667985761 | Figure of Speech | A device used to produce figurative language. | 42 | |
| 14667986372 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 43 | |
| 14667986744 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 44 | |
| 14667988282 | Implicit | implied, rather than expressly stated. | 45 | |
| 14667988665 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 46 | |
| 14667989891 | Induction | Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles. | 47 | |
| 14667990534 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 48 | |
| 14667990952 | Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant. | 49 | |
| 14667993839 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts. | 50 | |
| 14667994861 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos). | 51 | |
| 14667995752 | 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. | 52 | |
| 14667996324 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 53 | |
| 14667998608 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. Oxymoron: A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 54 | |
| 14667999432 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 55 | |
| 14667999662 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 56 | |
| 14668005845 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 57 | |
| 14668006308 | 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). | 58 | |
| 14668008138 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 59 | |
| 14668010828 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. Polemic: An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. | 60 | |
| 14668013759 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 61 | |
| 14668014105 | 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. | 62 | |
| 14668018125 | Major premise/Minor Premise/Conclusion | All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All horses are mammals. Conclusion: All horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism). | 63 | |
| 14668019565 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 64 | |
| 14668020483 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. | 65 | |
| 14668020750 | Qualify | To discuss the extent to which something may or may not be true. | 66 | |
| 14668021303 | Rebut | to refute by evidence or argument. | 67 | |
| 14668022369 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 68 | |
| 14668023615 | 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. | 69 | |
| 14668025052 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 70 | |
| 14668025823 | Satire | ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 71 | |
| 14668027532 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 72 | |
| 14668029199 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 73 | |
| 14668029742 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 74 | |
| 14668032296 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 75 | |
| 14668033309 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 76 | |
| 14668035359 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 77 | |
| 14668036293 | 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. Straw man: A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 78 | |
| 14668036821 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 79 | |
| 14668039182 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 80 | |
| 14668040837 | Subordinate Clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 81 | |
| 14668041333 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactic element on another in a sentence. | 82 | |
| 14668041712 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise (see premise; major, and minor). | 83 | |
| 14668049959 | Syntax | Sentence structure. | 84 | |
| 14668051133 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 85 | |
| 14668052378 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 86 | |
| 14668052780 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 87 | |
| 14668053747 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 88 | |
| 14668054705 | 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. | 89 | |
| 14668056156 | Transitions | Transitions are words and phrases that provide a connection between ideas, sentences, and paragraphs. | 90 | |
| 14668056770 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 91 | |
| 14668058935 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 92 | |
| 14668059467 | 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. | 93 |
