10305622383 | Authority | the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. | 0 | |
10305622384 | Audience | the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting. | 1 | |
10305622721 | Backing | support or help | 2 | |
10305622722 | Assertion | a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief | 3 | |
10305625082 | Means vs. Ends | carried out for the sole purpose of achieving something else | 4 | |
10305631509 | Deductive Reasoning | the process of reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logical certain conclusion | 5 | |
10305631772 | Inductive Reasoning | method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion | 6 | |
10305631773 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 7 | |
10305632038 | Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation etc | 8 | |
10305632039 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 9 | |
10305646206 | Denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word, i contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests | 10 | |
10305646207 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 11 | |
10305647074 | Colliquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary | 12 | |
10305647350 | Formal | following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way | 13 | |
10305647632 | Informal | Casual, not in accord with prescribed regulations | 14 | |
10305647633 | Concrete | existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract. | 15 | |
10305650856 | Abstract | existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. | 16 | |
10305673118 | Detail | an individual feature, fact, or item. | 17 | |
10305673119 | Mood | a temporary state of mind or feeling. | 18 | |
10305673534 | Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 19 | |
10305673535 | Setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. | 20 | |
10305673832 | Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 21 | |
10305673833 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly | 22 | |
10305674159 | Similie | A comparison using like or as | 23 | |
10305674560 | Metaphor | a word or phrase applies to an object when it is not literally applicable | 24 | |
10305674561 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 25 | |
10305674764 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 26 | |
10305676355 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 27 | |
10305677184 | Paradox | A figure of speech or statement that seems contradictory but actually contains a hidden truth | 28 | |
10305697174 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 29 | |
10305697175 | Analogy | comprised of two different pairs of words | 30 | |
10305697813 | Anecedote | A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 31 | |
10305697836 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 32 | |
10305698590 | Synecdoche | a part is made to represent a whole or vice versa | 33 | |
10305698608 | Rhetorical Modes/Modes of Discourse | describe the variety, conventions and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication | 34 | |
10305701378 | Exemplification | Providing examples in service of a point. | 35 | |
10305702236 | Cause/effect | An action and its results are explained | 36 | |
10305702470 | Description | a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event | 37 | |
10305703029 | Process Analysis | writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something | 38 | |
10305703030 | Narration | the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse | 39 | |
10305704002 | Comparison/Contrast | compare- to find/tell similarities contrast-to find/tell differences | 40 | |
10305704003 | Exposistion | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. | 41 | |
10305704442 | Argumentation | the action or process of reasoning systematically in support of an idea, action, or theory | 42 | |
10305705032 | Repetition | the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. | 43 | |
10305705033 | Point of view | a particular attitude or way of considering a matter. | 44 | |
10305705477 | First Person | "I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective. | 45 | |
10305734904 | Second Person | Told from the reader's point of view, using "you" | 46 | |
10305734905 | Third Person | Narrator is not a character, but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer | 47 | |
10305735577 | Subjective | based on or influenced by personal feelings or tastes, or opinions | 48 | |
10305735578 | Objective | not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts | 49 | |
10305736332 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 50 | |
10305736333 | Anaphora | the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition | 51 | |
10305736962 | Antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 52 | |
10305736974 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 53 | |
10305737480 | Polysyndenton | the deliberate use of multiple conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 54 | |
10305738970 | Parallel Sentence | repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence | 55 | |
10305739544 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause | 56 | |
10305739545 | Rhetorical Question | a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered | 57 | |
10305740408 | Inverted Syntax | where explanations are formed | 58 |
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