Terms : Hide Images
| 4726590276 | alliteration | the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 4726591284 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event | 1 | |
| 4726591801 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 4726592801 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 4726593862 | anecdote | a short amount of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 4726594256 | annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 4726594585 | antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 4726595702 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast | 7 | |
| 4726596396 | antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 4726601174 | aphorism | a short, astute statement of a general truth | 9 | |
| 4726603309 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun | 10 | |
| 4726603812 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language | 11 | |
| 4726605620 | argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 4726606240 | aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle) | 13 | |
| 4726607730 | assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. an assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument | 14 | |
| 4726608352 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 4726608620 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 16 | |
| 4726608972 | attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 4726609312 | audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 4726615601 | authority | a reliable, respected source-someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 4726621706 | bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue | 20 | |
| 4726624147 | cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source | 21 | |
| 4726625404 | claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 4726625754 | 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 | |
| 4726640437 | colloquial/ism | an informal or conversational use of language | 24 | |
| 4731082554 | common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions | 25 | |
| 4731082848 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 4731083811 | concession | a reluctant acknowledgement or yielding | 27 | |
| 4731084631 | connotation | that which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (see denotation) | 28 | |
| 4731085555 | context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 29 | |
| 4731087630 | coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 30 | |
| 4731089750 | counterargument | a challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 4731091792 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
| 4731093814 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 33 | |
| 4731094134 | deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 4731094423 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 35 | |
| 4731094690 | diction | word choice | 36 | |
| 4731094962 | documentation | bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 37 | |
| 4731095522 | elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 38 | |
| 4731096286 | epigram | a brief witt statement | 39 | |
| 4731096473 | ethos | a Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos) | 40 | |
| 4731097644 | figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 41 | |
| 4731099198 | figure of speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning | 42 | |
| 4731100085 | hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 43 | |
| 4731100522 | imagery | vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) | 44 | |
| 4731104738 | imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands | 45 | |
| 4731105204 | induction | reasoning from specific to general | 46 | |
| 4731105760 | inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject | 47 | |
| 4731112787 | irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 48 | |
| 4731115180 | juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 49 | |
| 4731116063 | logos | a Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) | 50 | |
| 4731118439 | 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 | |
| 4731120969 | metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 52 | |
| 4731123230 | occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing | 53 | |
| 4731127829 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two contradictory but is actually true | 54 | |
| 4731130611 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 55 | |
| 4731131875 | parallelism | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 56 | |
| 4731133172 | parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or riducle | 57 | |
| 4731134217 | 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 | |
| 4731138271 | persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a ice of writing | 59 | |
| 4731140412 | personification | assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | 60 | |
| 4731140709 | polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 61 | |
| 4731142264 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 62 | |
| 4731144234 | premise: major, minor | two parts of a syllogism. the concluding sentence of asyllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise | 63 | |
| 4731147114 | major premise | all mammals are warm-blooded | 64 | |
| 4731148349 | minor premise | all horses are mammals | 65 | |
| 4731149196 | conclusion | all horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism) | 66 | |
| 4731150240 | propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 67 | |
| 4731151556 | purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 68 | |
| 4731157963 | refute | to discredit and argument, particularly a counterargument | 69 | |
| 4731158503 | rhetoric | the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion" | 70 | |
| 4731159481 | 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 | |
| 4731163923 | rhetorical question | a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon and answer | 72 | |
| 4731168199 | rhetorical triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle) | 73 | |
| 4731169467 | satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. | 74 | |
| 4731169881 | scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 75 | |
| 4731170322 | sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 76 | |
| 4731170921 | sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 77 | |
| 4731171322 | simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 78 | |
| 4731171693 | simple sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 79 | |
| 4731172132 | source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 80 | |
| 4731172505 | 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 | |
| 4731172793 | straw man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 82 | |
| 4731173409 | style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 83 | |
| 4731174511 | subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. | 84 | |
| 4731174858 | subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 85 | |
| 4731175289 | subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 86 | |
| 4731175671 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise (see premise; major, and minor). | 87 | |
| 4731176099 | syntax | sentence structure | 88 | |
| 4731176638 | synthesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 89 | |
| 4731177001 | thesis | the central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 90 | |
| 4731177379 | thesis statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 91 | |
| 4731177671 | tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 92 | |
| 4731178357 | 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. | 93 | |
| 4731179028 | trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 94 | |
| 4731180675 | understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. | 95 | |
| 4731180676 | 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. | 96 | |
| 4731181105 | 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. | 97 |
