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| 10060955576 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. |  | 0 |
| 10060959988 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. |  | 1 |
| 10060981438 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. |  | 2 |
| 10060987302 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. |  | 3 |
| 10061030676 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event. |  | 4 |
| 10061049341 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. |  | 5 |
| 10061051561 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. |  | 6 |
| 10061089481 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. |  | 7 |
| 10061108608 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. |  | 8 |
| 10061110140 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. |  | 9 |
| 10061115206 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. |  | 10 |
| 10061117113 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. |  | 11 |
| 10061125155 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. |  | 12 |
| 10061132066 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience. |  | 13 |
| 10061135787 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. |  | 14 |
| 10061142833 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. |  | 15 |
| 10061146234 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. |  | 16 |
| 10061156969 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone. |  | 17 |
| 10061159182 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. |  | 18 |
| 10061161445 | Authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. |  | 19 |
| 10061163505 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. |  | 20 |
| 10061166874 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. |  | 21 |
| 10061171280 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. |  | 22 |
| 10061173910 | 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 |
| 10061178334 | Colloquialism | An informal or conversational use of language. |  | 24 |
| 10061180576 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. |  | 25 |
| 10061182197 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. |  | 26 |
| 10061185154 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. |  | 27 |
| 10061186920 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning. |  | 28 |
| 10061189480 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. |  | 29 |
| 10061191603 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. |  | 30 |
| 10061201671 | Counterarugment | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. Ex: almost like an argument of an issue from the other side/perspective. | 31 | |
| 10061203171 | Cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. |  | 32 |
| 10061207873 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. |  | 33 |
| 10061211067 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. |  | 34 |
| 10061212838 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. |  | 35 |
| 10061220232 | Diction | Word choice. |  | 36 |
| 10061221685 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. |  | 37 |
| 10061224027 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. |  | 38 |
| 10061233506 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. |  | 39 |
| 10061233507 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). |  | 40 |
| 10061262888 | Figuative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. Ex: The grass looks like spiky green hair | 41 | |
| 10061269011 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. |  | 42 |
| 10061269012 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. |  | 43 |
| 10061279041 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). |  | 44 |
| 10061282941 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. |  | 45 |
| 10061288235 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. |  | 46 |
| 10061292120 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. Ex: Where in the world were you? | 47 | |
| 10061296385 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. |  | 48 |
| 10061300359 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. |  | 49 |
| 10061311420 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) . |  | 50 |
| 10061312941 | 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 |
| 10061227447 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. Ex: The pen is mightier than the sword. | 52 | |
| 10061227448 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. Ex: Whether or not you like it, I am going to eat the cake. | 53 | |
| 10061317989 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. |  | 54 |
| 10061320068 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. |  | 55 |
| 10061322813 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. Ex: I Have a Dream speech by Dr. Luther King Jr. | 56 | |
| 10061325603 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. |  | 57 |
| 10061328632 | 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 |
| 10061330994 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. |  | 59 |
| 10061333053 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. |  | 60 |
| 10061334453 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion. |  | 61 |
| 10061337336 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. |  | 62 |
| 10061339203 | 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. Major premise: All mammals are warm-blooded. Minor premise: All horses are mammals. |  | 63 |
| 10061344489 | Conclusion | All horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism). |  | 64 |
| 10061346618 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. |  | 65 |
| 10061354575 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. |  | 66 |
| 10061356975 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. |  | 67 |
| 10061359455 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." |  | 68 |
| 10061362389 | 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 |
| 10061364472 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. |  | 70 |
| 10061366509 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience |  | 71 |
| 10061369177 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. |  | 72 |
| 10061371083 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. |  | 73 |
| 10061372994 | Scheme patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. |  | 74 |
| 10061379517 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. |  | 75 |
| 10061382265 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. |  | 76 |
| 10061388331 | Simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. |  | 77 |
| 10061395000 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. |  | 78 |
| 10061397122 | 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. |  | 79 |
| 10061399569 | Straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. |  | 80 |
| 10061402366 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. Ex: argumentative, narrative, persuasive, descriptive styles | 81 | |
| 10061404027 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. |  | 82 |
| 10061406914 | Subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. |  | 83 |
| 10061409139 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. |  | 84 |
| 10061411161 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise (see premise; major, and minor). Ex: Major- All women like to shop. | 85 | |
| 10061412913 | Synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. |  | 86 |
| 10061412914 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. |  | 87 |
| 10061414687 | Thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. |  | 88 |
| 10061417261 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. |  | 89 |
| 10061419400 | 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. |  | 90 |
| 10061419401 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. |  | 91 |
| 10061421886 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. |  | 92 |
| 10061423715 | 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 |
| 10061425335 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence. |  | 94 |
| 10062399431 | Syntax | Sentence structure. |  | 95 |
