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| 4859085559 | Polemical | Involving strongly critical, comtroversial writing or speech | 0 | |
| 4859085560 | Diction | Choice of words | 1 | |
| 4859085561 | Syntax | Arrangement of words | 2 | |
| 4859085562 | Trope | Artful diction Ex: metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole | 3 | |
| 4859085563 | Scheme | Artful syntax Ex: parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis | 4 | |
| 4859085564 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying literal meaning Ex: metaphor | 5 | |
| 4859085565 | Periodic sentences | Moving towards something important at the end | 6 | |
| 4859085566 | Cumulative sentence | Adding details that support an important idea in the beginning | 7 | |
| 4859085567 | Annotation | A note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram | 8 | |
| 4859085568 | Imagery | Feel, smell, touch, taste, sight | 9 | |
| 4859085569 | Oxymoron | Figure of speech when contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 10 | |
| 4859085570 | Zeugma | Use of 2 different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings | 11 | |
| 4859085571 | Subordinate conjunction | A conjunction that introduces an dependent clause Ex: since, that, who | 12 | |
| 4859085572 | Compound sentence | A sentence with more than one subject or predicate (the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject e.g., went home in John went home ). | 13 | |
| 4859085573 | Archaic diction | Old fashioned or outdated choice of words | 14 | |
| 4859085574 | Complex sentences | Contains subordinate clauses | 15 | |
| 4859085575 | Declarative sentences | In a form of a statement (the subject is normally before the verb) | 16 | |
| 4859085576 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 17 | |
| 4859085577 | Hortative sentences | Language that urges or calls to action (encourage) | 18 | |
| 4859085578 | Imperative | Urge, implore, ask (command) | 19 | |
| 4859142369 | Coordinating conjunctions | For, and , nor, but, or, yet, so ( FANBOYS) | 20 | |
| 4859142370 | Antimetabole (inversion) | Repetition of words in reverse order | 21 | |
| 4867588039 | Rhetoric | The study and use of the arts of effective and persuasive communication | 22 | |
| 4867588040 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or a piece of writing is addressed to | 23 | |
| 4867588041 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning | 24 | |
| 4867588042 | Purpose | One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 25 | |
| 4867588043 | Subject | The topic addressed in a piece of writing | 26 | |
| 4867588044 | Assertion | Emphatic statement; declaration | 27 | |
| 4867588045 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 28 | |
| 4867588046 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 29 | |
| 4867588047 | Ethos | Appeal to credibility | 30 | |
| 4867588048 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 31 | |
| 4867588049 | Tone | The speaker's attitude towards the subject or audience | 32 | |
| 4867588050 | Concede (concession) | Agree | 33 | |
| 4867588051 | Refute (refutation) | Deny | 34 | |
| 4867588052 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general | 35 | |
| 4867588053 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art | 36 | |
| 4867588054 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction | 37 | |
| 4867588055 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 38 | |
| 4867588056 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparison or contrast | 39 | |
| 4867588057 | Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent a whole | 40 | |
| 4867588058 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 41 | |
| 4867588059 | Rhetorical questions | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 42 | |
| 4964126588 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 43 |
