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| 6781707738 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. |  | 0 |
| 6781707739 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. |  | 1 |
| 6781707740 | Analogy | An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. |  | 2 |
| 6781707741 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. |  | 3 |
| 6781707742 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event. |  | 4 |
| 6781707743 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. |  | 5 |
| 6781707744 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. |  | 6 |
| 6781707745 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. |  | 7 |
| 6781707746 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. |  | 8 |
| 6781707747 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of general truth. |  | 9 |
| 6781707748 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. |  | 10 |
| 6781707749 | Archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. |  | 11 |
| 6781707750 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence. |  | 12 |
| 6781707751 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle) |  | 13 |
| 6781707752 | Assertion | An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. |  | 14 |
| 6781707753 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof. | 15 | |
| 6781707754 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. |  | 16 |
| 6781707755 | Attitude | The speaker's position on a subject, as revealed through his or her tone. |  | 17 |
| 6781707756 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is being addressed. |  | 18 |
| 6781707757 | Authority | A reliable, respected source- someone with knowledge. |  | 19 |
| 6781707758 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. |  | 20 |
| 6781707759 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. |  | 21 |
| 6781707760 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence. |  | 22 |
| 6781707761 | 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 |
| 6781707762 | Colloquial/ism | An informal or conversational use of language. |  | 24 |
| 6781707763 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. |  | 25 |
| 6781707764 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least on dependent clause. |  | 26 |
| 6781707765 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding. |  | 27 |
| 6781707766 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (See denotation) |  | 28 |
| 6781707767 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. |  | 29 |
| 6781707768 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as AND, or BUT. |  | 30 |
| 6781707769 | Counterarguement | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. |  | 31 |
| 6781707770 | Credible | Worthy of belief; trustworthy. |  | 32 |
| 6781707771 | Cumulative Sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. |  | 33 |
| 6781707772 | Declarative Sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. |  | 34 |
| 6781707773 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific. |  | 35 |
| 6781707774 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition. |  | 36 |
| 6781707775 | Dialectal Journal | A double- column journal in which one writes a quotation in one column and reflections on that quotation in the other column. |  | 37 |
| 6781707776 | Diction | Word choice. |  | 38 |
| 6781707777 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. |  | 39 |
| 6781707778 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. |  | 40 |
| 6781707779 | Epigram | A brief witty statement. |  | 41 |
| 6781707780 | Ethos | A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos). |  | 42 |
| 6781707781 | Explication of Text | Explanation of a text's meaning through an analysis of all of its constituent parts, including the literary devices used; also called close reading. |  | 43 |
| 6781707782 | Facts | Information that is true or demonstrable. |  | 44 |
| 6781707783 | Figurative Language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect. |  | 45 |
| 6781707784 | Figure of Speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying literal meaning. |  | 46 |
| 6781707785 | Fragment | A word, phrase, or clause that does not form a full sentence. |  | 47 |
| 6781707786 | Hortatory | Urging, or strongly encouraging. |  | 48 |
| 6781707787 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. |  | 49 |
| 6781707788 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). |  | 50 |
| 6781707789 | Imperative | A sentence that requests or commands. |  | 51 |
| 6781707790 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. |  | 52 |
| 6781707791 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 53 | |
| 6781707792 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and whit is meant; incongruity between action and result. |  | 54 |
| 6781707793 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. |  | 55 |
| 6781707794 | Logos | A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos). |  | 56 |
| 6781707795 | 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. |  | 57 |
| 6781707796 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. |  | 58 |
| 6781707797 | Modifier | A word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or describes another word phrase, or clause. |  | 59 |
| 6781707798 | Narration | Retelling an event or series of events. |  | 60 |
| 6781707799 | Nominalization | Turning a verb or adjective into a noun. | 61 | |
| 6781707800 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing. |  | 62 |
| 6781707801 | Omniscient Narrator | An all-knowing, usually third person narrator. |  | 63 |
| 6781707802 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. |  | 64 |
| 6781707803 | Pacing | The relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented. |  | 65 |
| 6781707804 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. |  | 66 |
| 6781707805 | Parallelism | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. |  | 67 |
| 6781707806 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. |  | 68 |
| 6781707807 | 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). |  | 69 |
| 6781707808 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause. | 70 | |
| 6781707809 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. |  | 71 |
| 6781707810 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. |  | 72 |
| 6781707811 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics or religion. |  | 73 |
| 6781707812 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. |  | 74 |
| 6781707813 | Premise; Major; Minor | Tow 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. Conclusion: All HORSES are WARM-BLOODED. |  | 75 |
| 6781707814 | Pronoun | A word used to replace a noun or noun phrase. |  | 76 |
| 6781707815 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. |  | 77 |
| 6781707816 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing. |  | 78 |
| 6781707817 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument. |  | 79 |
| 6781707818 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive, language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "Available means of persuasion." |  | 80 |
| 6781707819 | 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. |  | 81 |
| 6781707820 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. |  | 82 |
| 6781707821 | Rhetorical Triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle). |  | 83 |
| 6781707822 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it. |  | 84 |
| 6781707823 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. |  | 85 |
| 6781707824 | Sentence Patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions- simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. |  | 86 |
| 6781707825 | Sentence Variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 87 | |
| 6781707826 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. |  | 88 |
| 6781707827 | Simple Sentence | A statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. |  | 89 |
| 6781707828 | Source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. |  | 90 |
| 6781707829 | 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. |  | 91 |
| 6781707830 | Straw Man | A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. |  | 92 |
| 6781707831 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. |  | 93 |
| 6781707832 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing. |  | 94 |
| 6781707833 | Subordinate Clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. |  | 95 |
| 6781707834 | Subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. |  | 96 |
| 6781707835 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by major and minor premise (see premise; major; and minor). |  | 97 |
| 6781707836 | Syntax | Sentence structure. |  | 98 |
| 6781707837 | Sythesize | Combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. |  | 99 |
| 6781707838 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. |  | 100 |
| 6781707839 | Thesis Statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. |  | 101 |
| 6781707840 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. |  | 102 |
| 6781707841 | 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 of the thesis. |  | 103 |
| 6781707842 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a non literal way; also called a figure of speech. |  | 104 |
| 6781707843 | Understatement | Lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect. |  | 105 |
| 6781707844 | 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. |  | 106 |
| 6781707845 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs- often in different, sometimes in congruent was- two or more words in a sentence. |  | 107 |
