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| 7090648245 | Alliteration | The repition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables | 0 | |
| 7090648246 | allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event | 1 | |
| 7090648247 | Analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 7090648248 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 7090648249 | Anecdote | A short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 7090648250 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 7090648251 | Antecedent | A noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 7090648252 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 7 | |
| 7090648253 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 7090648254 | Aphorism | A short, astute statement of a general truth. | 9 | |
| 7090648255 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nervy noun or pronoun | 10 | |
| 7090648256 | Archaic dictation | The use of words common to an earlier period of time; antiquated language | 11 | |
| 7090648257 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 7090648258 | Aristotelian triangle | A diagram the represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 7090648259 | Assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. When supported by evidence it becomes an argument | 14 | |
| 7090648260 | Assumption | A belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 7090648261 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 16 | |
| 7090648262 | Attitude | The speakers position on a subject as revealed through this or her tone | 17 | |
| 7090648263 | Audience | Ones listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed | 18 | |
| 7090648264 | Authority | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge | 19 | |
| 7090648265 | Bias | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 7090648266 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 7090648267 | Claim | An assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 7090648268 | Close reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sent nice structure, vocabulary, and other literacy and structural elements of a text | 23 | |
| 7090648269 | Colloquialism | An informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 7090648270 | Common ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 7090648271 | Complex sentence | A sentence that includes on independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 26 | |
| 7090648272 | Concession | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding. | 27 | |
| 7090648273 | Connotation | That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the words literal meaning | 28 | |
| 7090648274 | Context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 7090648275 | Coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 30 | |
| 7090648276 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. | 31 | |
| 7090648277 | Cumulative sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
| 7090648278 | Declarative sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 33 | |
| 7090648279 | Deduction | Reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 7090648280 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 35 | |
| 7090648281 | Diction | word choice | 36 | |
| 7090648282 | Documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 37 | |
| 7090648283 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has been passed or been lost; often used to describe tone | 38 | |
| 7090648284 | Epigram | A brief witty statement | 39 | |
| 7090648285 | Ethos | The Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 40 | |
| 7090648286 | Figurative language | The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literacy effect | 41 | |
| 7090648287 | figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 42 | |
| 7090648288 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 43 | |
| 7090648289 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). | 44 | |
| 7090648290 | imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 45 | |
| 7090648291 | Induction | Reasoning from specific to general. Inversion: a sent nice in which the verb precedes the subject | 46 | |
| 7090648292 | Irony | A contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result | 47 | |
| 7090648293 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 48 | |
| 7090654638 | Logos | A greek term that means "word"; and appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's rhetorical appeals | 49 | |
| 7090656338 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trobe through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison | 50 | |
| 7090660847 | Metonymy | Use of an aspect of something to represent a whole | 51 | |
| 7090662493 | Occasion | An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing | 52 | |
| 7090663214 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two or more contradictory terms | 53 | |
| 7090664182 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictor but is actually true | 54 | |
| 7090666459 | Parallelism | The repition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns | 55 | |
| 7090671483 | Parody | A piece that imitates and exxaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule | 56 | |
| 7090674381 | 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 | 57 | |
| 7090676988 | Persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 58 | |
| 7090678827 | Personification | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | 59 | |
| 7090680103 | Polemic | An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 60 | |
| 7090681600 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions | 61 | |
| 7090682890 | Premise | major, minor-Two parts of a syllogism. The concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subjects from the minor premise. | 62 | |
| 7090686356 | Major premise (example) | All mammals are warm-blooded | 63 | |
| 7090687304 | Minor premise (example) | All horses are mammals | 64 | |
| 7090688074 | Conclusion (example) | All horses are warm-blooded | 65 | |
| 7090690081 | Propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information | 66 | |
| 7090691688 | Purpose | one's intention or objection in a speech pr piece of writing | 67 | |
| 7090692921 | Refute | To discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 68 | |
| 7090694017 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion" | 69 | |
| 7090699622 | Rhertoric modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison, contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation | 70 | |
| 7090707184 | Rhetorical question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer | 71 | |
| 7090710607 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 72 | |
| 7090714359 | Satire | An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 73 | |
| 7090716800 | Scheme | A patterns of words or sentence constuction used for rhetorical effect | 74 | |
| 7090719276 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into know sentence constructions, such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 75 | |
| 7090723642 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 76 | |
| 7090724449 | Simile | A figure of speech tht uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 77 | |
| 7090727013 | Simples sentence | A statement containg a subjact and a predicate; an independent clause | 78 | |
| 7090728206 | Source | A book, article person, or other resource consulted for information | 79 | |
| 7090729161 | 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 | 80 | |
| 7090731202 | Straw man | A logical fallancy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position | 81 | |
| 7090735030 | Style | The distictive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words an figures of speech | 82 | |
| 7090737113 | Subject | In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a pice of writing | 83 | |
| 7090739423 | Subordinate clause | Created by subbordination conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 84 | |
| 7090741095 | Subordination | The dependent of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 85 | |
| 7090741934 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a maor premise | 86 |
