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| 5540733782 | archetype | an old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through ages. Example...prince saves princess; underdog rises | 0 | |
| 5540780341 | assertion | the thesis or position a writer puts forward in an argument | 1 | |
| 5540784953 | claim | the thesis or position a writer puts forward in an argument | 2 | |
| 5540789874 | connotation | personal meaning and relationship with the word; emotional undertones | 3 | |
| 5540793845 | denotation | specific, exact, meaning of a word; dictionary definition | 4 | |
| 5540798199 | diction | use of words written in discourse; accurate careful use of words | 5 | |
| 5540833124 | ethical appeal | (ethos) authors credibility and background; made to appeal to readers sense of right and wrong | 6 | |
| 5540839347 | emotional appeal | (pathos) statements used to appeal to emotions | 7 | |
| 5547451549 | exigence | the need or demand, intrinsic motivation to write | 8 | |
| 5547455235 | existentialism | a philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of an individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe | 9 | |
| 5547460912 | irony | the use of words to suggest something different from their literal meaning | 10 | |
| 5547463254 | logical appeal | (logos) principles of reasoning; valid reasoning | 11 | |
| 5547479352 | mood | emotional, intellectual attitude of the author toward the subject | 12 | |
| 5547482691 | point of view | the manner in which the literary materials are presented to the reader; vantage point of the author | 13 | |
| 5547489431 | realism | truthful treatment of materials from the common, the average, and the everyday | 14 | |
| 5547492631 | rhetoric | the art of persuasion | 15 | |
| 5547495230 | structure | construction of sentences and arrangement of ideas | 16 | |
| 5547497832 | theme | main dominating idea | 17 | |
| 5547499514 | tone | attitude of the writer toward the subject; used to designate mood | 18 | |
| 5547502557 | apostrophe | figure of speech in which the writer speaks directly to an abstract person or idea | 19 | |
| 5547506428 | synecdoche | figure of speech uses a part to represent the whole; got a new set of wheels | 20 | |
| 5547511529 | metonymy | substitutes a term naming an object closely associated with the word for the word itself "counting heads" "the bottle" | 21 | |
| 5547517003 | litotes | understatement used for emphasis or affirmation; asserts a point by denying the opposite; not just sarcasm | 22 | |
| 5547521298 | alliteration | repeating consonant sound | 23 | |
| 5547523572 | allusion | indirect reference to famous idea, person, or book | 24 | |
| 5547526352 | analogy | literal comparison | 25 | |
| 5547527785 | anaphora | repetition for emphasis | 26 | |
| 5547529320 | antithesis | figure of speech characterized by contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas; give me liberty or give me death | 27 | |
| 5547533788 | conceit | elaborate surprising figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things; higher level thinking | 28 | |
| 5547539351 | epithet | an adjective before a character's name; oh great thunder Zeus | 29 | |
| 5547543209 | false analogy | wrongful comparison of dissimilar situations | 30 | |
| 5547545926 | flashback | device where writer presents scenes or incidents that occur prior to opening scenes | 31 | |
| 5547549918 | foreshadowing | arrangement of events and information that prepares reader for later events | 32 | |
| 5547552593 | hyperbole | obvious intentional exaggeration not to be taken literally; I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse | 33 | |
| 5547558573 | imagery | qualities of work that show concreteness to appeal to memory | 34 | |
| 5547561726 | metaphor | direct comparison | 35 | |
| 5547563430 | onomatopoeia | sound word; bang! | 36 | |
| 5547564794 | oxymoron | two contradictory terms used together; wise fool or jumbo shrimp | 37 | |
| 5547568305 | paradox | statement which seems contradictory but is true; takes money to make money | 38 | |
| 5547581073 | parallelism | structural arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences and larger units in writing showing one element is of equal importance to another | 39 | |
| 5547588238 | personification | giving human qualities to a non human things | 40 | |
| 5547590715 | rhetorical question | writer poses a question to an audience but does not expect an answer | 41 | |
| 5547594592 | simile | like or as indirect comparison | 42 | |
| 5547595891 | understatement | minimizes the obvious importance of seriousness; assumes audience knows the significance | 43 | |
| 5547600638 | ambiguity | doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention | 44 | |
| 5547603426 | assumption | a belief, state or implied, that is taken for granted (not understatement) | 45 | |
| 5547607340 | cliché | an expression that has become ineffective through over use | 46 | |
| 5547609434 | coherence | good quality of good writing that results when al sentences, paragraphs, and longer divisions of an essay are connected naturally | 47 | |
| 5547615465 | colloquial expression | informal language that is acceptable in formal writing only if used purposefully | 48 | |
| 5547618856 | deduction | process of reasoning from a stated premise to a conclusion; moves from general to specific | 49 | |
| 5548520834 | ellipsis | ... | 50 | |
| 5548520835 | generalization | to deal in generalities; to speak or write vaguely | 51 | |
| 5548525204 | humor | writing whose purpose is invoking laughter | 52 | |
| 5548532134 | idiom | word or phrase that is used habitually with particular meaning in a language; meaning of an idiom is not readily apparent to non native speakers | 53 | |
| 5548539187 | induction | process of reasoning to a conclusion; moves from specific to general | 54 | |
| 5548542636 | inversion | the placing of a sentence element out of its normal position to gain emphasis | 55 | |
| 5548546468 | oversimplification | simplification to the point of causing misrepresentation, misconception | 56 | |
| 5548551184 | paraphrase | restatement of an idea to retain meaning while changing the diction and form | 57 | |
| 5548554633 | refutation | prove false or erroneous; overthrown by argument or proof | 58 | |
| 5548558545 | sarcasm | verbal irony in which, under the guise of praise, a caustic and bitter expression of strong and personal disapproval is given; intended as a sneering taunt | 59 | |
| 5548568546 | satire | literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and for the purpose of improving human institutions or conditions of; attempt to ridicule institutions for the purpose of inspiring remodeling | 60 | |
| 5548583352 | slanting | use of certain words put together to form phrases and sentences | 61 | |
| 5548591579 | syntax | way words are put together to form phrases | 62 | |
| 5548593649 | unity | how words/sentences/paragraphs contribute to its thesis, all elements support single idea/purpose | 63 | |
| 5548648678 | abstract language | thoughts or statements which refer to general qualities conditions, ideas, actions, or relationships that cannot be directly perceived by the senses; love or freedom | 64 | |
| 5548656491 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | 65 | |
| 5548659795 | asyndeton | condensed form of expression in which words, phrases, or clauses are not joined by conjunction | 66 | |
| 5548664173 | balanced sentenced | no definition | 67 | |
| 5548667048 | chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | 68 | |
| 5548670858 | concrete language | names specific objects, people, places, or actions that can be directly perceived by the senses | 69 | |
| 5548682952 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds | 70 | |
| 5548684625 | equivocation | statement that is not literally false but clearly avoids truth; intentionally vague but not dishonest | 71 | |
| 5548694245 | figurative language | writing that departs from literal meaning | 72 | |
| 5548696255 | inference | drawing a reasonable conclusion from the material presented | 73 | |
| 5548698477 | jargon | vocabulary specific to a trade or profession | 74 | |
| 5548701879 | juxtaposition | literary technique in which two or more characters, ideas, actions, etc...are placed side by side with each other for compare and contrast | 75 | |
| 5548709819 | loose sentence | sentence that does not end with a completion of its main clause but continues with subordinate clauses | 76 | |
| 5548716440 | non sequitur | fallacy; conclusion does not follow the premise or evidence upon which it is based; error due to lack of logic | 77 | |
| 5548722553 | periodic sentence | sentence where the main clause is toward the end to sentence | 78 | |
| 5548727046 | polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions close to succession for rhetorical effect | 79 | |
| 5548731950 | post hoc; ergo | fallacy; post hoc: in which one event is said to have caused a later event simply because it happened earlier; ego:consequently | 80 | |
| 5548741674 | slang | very informal language only acceptable if used purposefully | 81 |
