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| 5532584692 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 0 | |
| 5532584693 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers to life | 1 | |
| 5532584694 | Thesis | Statement that is a sentence that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or preposition | 2 | |
| 5532584695 | Tone | Describes the author's attitude toward his or her material or the audience | 3 | |
| 5532584696 | Transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas | 4 | |
| 5532584697 | Understatement | The ironic minimalizing of fact, presenting something less significant than it actually is. Makes a work humorous and emphatic;A statement that lacks emphasis and is given less force than normal. | 5 | |
| 5532584698 | Wit | intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights | 6 | |
| 5532584699 | Attitude | A writer's intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject of the writing (related to tone) | 7 | |
| 5532584700 | Concrete detail | A non abstract detail asked on essay portion | 8 | |
| 5532584701 | Descriptive detail | Detail appealing to the visual sense of the reader | 9 | |
| 5532584702 | Devices | The figures of speech, syntax, diction, and other stylistic elements that collectively produce a particular artistic effect | 10 | |
| 5532584703 | Language | how the elements of this combine to form a whole (diction, syntax, figurative language, etc) | 11 | |
| 5532584704 | Narrative devices | The tools of the storyteller such as ordering events so that they build to a climactic moment or withholding information until a crucial time | 12 | |
| 5532584705 | Narrative technique | The style of telling the story, especially the order of events and their detail | 13 | |
| 5532584706 | Persuasive devices | The words in the passage that have strong connotations hint at this. Words that intensify the emotional effect | 14 | |
| 5532584707 | Persuasive essay | An essay that leads to appeal to the audience's emotion or ethical standards to make them feel or support the author's position | 15 | |
| 5532584708 | Resources of language | All the devices of composition available to a writer such as diction, syntax, sentence structure, etc | 16 | |
| 5532584709 | Rhetorical features | Refers to how a passage is constructed. Look at the passage's organization and how the writer combines images, details, or arguments | 17 | |
| 5532584710 | Sentence structure | The type of sentences the author uses; the simple, compound, complex types of this | 18 | |
| 5532584711 | Bathos | the sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or style; insincere or overdone pathos | 19 | |
| 5532584712 | Hyperbole | A non-literal exaggeration to emphasize something. | 20 | |
| 5532584713 | Litotes | (Similar to understatement) Emphasizes a point by using a word opposite to the condition. | 21 | |
| 5532584714 | Antithesis | A structure that places contrasting ideas next to each other. | 22 | |
| 5532584715 | Hypophora | Asking a question, then answering it too. | 23 | |
| 5532584716 | Rhetorical Question | A question that is asked to create an effect, not really to be answered. | 24 | |
| 5532584717 | Procatalepsis | (Form of hypophora) Eliminates an objection without asking any questions. | 25 | |
| 5532584718 | Distinctio | Giving the definition of a word so that the word isn't taken the wrong way. | 26 | |
| 5532584719 | Simile | A figure of speech using "like" or "as" to compare two thing somewhat alike. | 27 | |
| 5532584720 | Metaphor | (Similar to simile) Speaking of something as though it were another. | 28 | |
| 5532584721 | Eponym | (Similar to allusion) Linking the attributes of a well known person to another person. | 29 | |
| 5532584722 | Sententia | A quotation or wise saying. Can be a quote from a person. | 30 | |
| 5532584723 | Exemplum | Providing the reader with an example to illustrate what the author means. Fictional examples need to be hypothetical. | 31 | |
| 5532584724 | Climax | Organizing ideas in writing from least to most important. | 32 | |
| 5532584725 | Parallelism | Structuring multiple sentences, generally the same way, to link them all. | 33 | |
| 5532584726 | Chiasmus | (Form of parallelism) The structure of two lines are crisscrossed. The beginning of the first is at the end of the second and vice versa. | 34 | |
| 5532584727 | Anadiplosis | (Form of repetition) Repeating the last word of a phrase or sentence near the beginning of the next. | 35 | |
| 5532584728 | Conduplicatio | (Form of repetition) Take an important word in the previous sentence or phrase and repeats it at the beginning of the next. | 36 | |
| 5532584729 | Metabasis | A summary of a previous body of work that allows the reader to move on to a new point. | 37 | |
| 5532584730 | Parenthesis | A device that is used to insert additional information into the main body of the writing.Equivalent to the spoken aside. | 38 | |
| 5532584731 | Enumeratio | A list of details about something that is supplied. | 39 |
