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| 3039315674 | absolute | a word free from limitations or qualifications | 0 | |
| 3039315675 | aesthetic effect/purpose | the psychological responses to beauty & artistic experiences | 1 | |
| 3039315676 | allegory | an extended metaphor | 2 | |
| 3039315677 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words | 3 | |
| 3039315678 | allusion | a reference to a specific body of knowledge | 4 | |
| 3039315679 | anadiplosis | the repetition of the last word of one clause and at the beginning of the following clause | 5 | |
| 3039315680 | analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 6 | |
| 3039315681 | anaphora | the repetition of a group of a word at the beginning of successive clause | 7 | |
| 3039315682 | anecdote | a brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to support a generalization of a claim | 8 | |
| 3039315683 | anticipated objection | a technique a writer/speaker uses in an argumentative text to address and answer objections, although the audience hasn't yet voiced their objections | 9 | |
| 3039315684 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in a parallel structure | 10 | |
| 3039315685 | aphorism | a short, often witty statement or a truth about life | 11 | |
| 3039315686 | appeal | a persuasive strategy dealing with logos, pathos, and ethos | 12 | |
| 3039315687 | asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions between related clauses | 13 | |
| 3039315688 | cause & effect | a rhetorical strategy that examines the relationship between events or conditions and their consequences | 14 | |
| 3039315689 | chiasmus | inverted relationship between two elements in two parallel phrases | 15 | |
| 3039315690 | claim | the ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point the a syllogism or enthymeme expresses | 16 | |
| 3039315691 | classification | a rhetorical strategy, dividing a subject into categories and then analyzes the characteristics of each category | 17 | |
| 3039315692 | cliche | an expression that has been overused to the extent that it has lost it's original meaning | 18 | |
| 3039315693 | colloquialism | a word or phrase used in everyday conversation & informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing | 19 | |
| 3039315694 | compare & contrast | two complementary strategies that examines the similarities and differences between two subjects | 20 | |
| 3039315695 | conceit | a figure of speech in which two vastly different things are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors | 21 | |
| 3039315696 | connotation | the implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed dictionary meaning | 22 | |
| 3039315697 | controlling idea | an idea that provides the common thread that ties a text together | 23 | |
| 3039315698 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by a series of phrases or clauses that gathers details about a person, place, event, or idea | 24 | |
| 3039315699 | deductive reasoning | reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle | 25 | |
| 3039315700 | definition | a writing strategy that describes the nature of an abstract or concrete subject | 26 | |
| 3039315701 | denotation | the "dictionary definition" of a word, in contrast to its connotation (implied meaning) | 27 | |
| 3039315702 | descriptive | using words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and touch to create a picture | 28 | |
| 3039315703 | diction | word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness, and abstractness | 29 | |
| 3039315704 | didactic | formal writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach | 30 | |
| 3039315705 | dominant impression | a principle effect the author wishes to create for the audience in descriptive writing | 31 | |
| 3039315706 | elliptical construction (ellipsis) | the omission of words, the meaning which is provided by overall context of a passage | 32 | |
| 3039315707 | emphatic order | a method that uses a sequenced list in persuasive writing | 33 | |
| 3039315708 | epithet | a word or phrase adding characteristic to a person's name | 34 | |
| 3039315709 | ethos | the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator | 35 | |
| 3039315710 | euphemism | an indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way as to lessen its impact | 36 | |
| 3039315711 | figurative language | language dominated by the use of the scheme and tropes | 37 | |
| 3039315712 | framing | the use of the same features, wording, setting, or topic at both the beginning and end of a literary work so as to "frame" or enclose it | 38 | |
| 3039315713 | imagery | language that evokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader | 39 | |
| 3039315714 | incongruity | a situation where two unlike things are placed together | 40 | |
| 3039315715 | inductive reasoning | reasoning that begins by citing a number of instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle | 41 | |
| 3039315716 | invective | a verbally abuse attack | 42 | |
| 3039315717 | irony | writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken | 43 | |
| 3039315718 | isocolon | parallel elements that are similar in structure and in length | 44 | |
| 3039315719 | litotes | an understatement | 45 | |
| 3039315720 | logical fallacy | a mistake in reasoning | 46 | |
| 3039315721 | logos | an appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas | 47 | |
| 3039315722 | loose sentence | a sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, & compliment | 48 | |
| 3039315723 | metaphor | an implied comparison that does not use the word like or as | 49 | |
| 3039315846 | metonomy | an entity referred to by one of its attributes or association | 50 | |
| 3039315847 | narrative | an anecdote or a story offered in support of a generalization, claim, or point | 51 | |
| 3039315848 | onomatopoeia | a literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning | 52 | |
| 3039315849 | oxymoron | juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings | 53 | |
| 3039315850 | paradox | a statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless | 54 | |
| 3039315851 | parallelism | a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or a paragraph | 55 | |
| 3039315852 | parody | a work ridiculing the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements | 56 | |
| 3039315853 | pathos | the appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience | 57 | |
| 3039315854 | pedantic | term used to describe a person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning | 58 | |
| 3039315855 | periodic sentence | a sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/or compliment | 59 | |
| 3039315856 | point of view/vantage point | the perspective or source of a piece of writing | 60 | |
| 3039315857 | qualifier | a word or phrase that precedes an adjective or adverb, increasing or decreasing the quality signified by the modified word | 61 | |
| 3039315858 | repetition | in a text, the repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or clauses to emphasize meaning or achieve effect | 62 | |
| 3039315859 | rhetorical question | a question posed by the speaker or the writer not to seek answer but instead to affirm or deny a point | 63 | |
| 3039315860 | rhetorical triangle | a diagram showing the relations of the writer or speaker, reader or listener, and text in a rhetorical situation | 64 | |
| 3039315861 | sarcasm | the use of mockery or bitter irony | 65 | |
| 3039315862 | satire | a work that reveals a critical attitude towards some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way | 66 | |
| 3039315863 | scheme | an artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences | 67 | |
| 3039315864 | semantics | the field of linguistics concerned with the study of meaning in language | 68 | |
| 3039315865 | sensory language | a strategy used in descriptive writing to enhance a reader's five senses | 69 | |
| 3039315866 | syllogism | logical reasoning from inarguable premises | 70 | |
| 3039315867 | synesthetic image (synesthesia) | a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that appeals to more than one sense | 71 | |
| 3039315868 | syntax | the order of words in a sentence | 72 | |
| 3039315869 | tautology | a group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed | 73 | |
| 3039315870 | tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude towards the subject matter | 74 | |
| 3039315871 | Toulmin argument | an organizational structure used in argumentative writing | 75 | |
| 3039315872 | tricolon | sentence consisting of 3 parts of equal importance and length | 76 | |
| 3039315873 | trope | an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas | 77 | |
| 3039315874 | understatement | the deliberate playing down of a situation to make a statement | 78 | |
| 3039315875 | voice | refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject & verb, or the total "sound" of a writer's style | 79 | |
| 3039315876 | warrant | in argument, a plausible assertion that a reader must agree with in order to accept the claim | 80 | |
| 3039315877 | zeugma | a trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main idea, governs two other words not related in the meaning | 81 |
