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| 6651734652 | allegory | A literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely. | 0 | |
| 6651734653 | alliteration | Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in sequence. | 1 | |
| 6651734656 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. | 2 | |
| 6651734670 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 3 | |
| 6651734671 | backing | In the Toulmin model, backing consists of further assurances or data without which the assumption lacks authority. | 4 | |
| 6651734673 | bias | a prejudice or preconceived notion that presents a person from approaching a topic in a neutral or a objective way | 5 | |
| 6651734685 | concession | an acknowledgement that the opposing argument may be true or reasonable | 6 | |
| 6651734688 | context | the circumstances, atmosphere, and events surrounding a text | 7 | |
| 6651734691 | cumulative sentence | completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 8 | |
| 6651734695 | ekphrasis | comments on another genre | 9 | |
| 6651734698 | epigram | a short, witty statement designed to surprise an audience or reader | 10 | |
| 6651734699 | epigraph | a quotation preceding a work of literature that helps set the text's mood or suggest its themes | 11 | |
| 6651734701 | eulogy | a poem, speech, or another work written in great praise of someone or something, usually a person no longer living | 12 | |
| 6651734716 | verbal irony | a figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected | 13 | |
| 6651734726 | mood | the feeling or atmosphere created by a text | 14 | |
| 6651734732 | oxymoron | a paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words. | 15 | |
| 6651734734 | passive voice | when the subject doesn't act but rather is acted upon. | 16 | |
| 6651734736 | periodic sentence | the main clause of the sentence is withheld until the end. | 17 | |
| 6651734739 | polemic | an aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others; this generally does not concede that opposing arguments have any merit. | 18 | |
| 6651734742 | propaganda | the spread of ideas and information to further a cause. | 19 | |
| 6651734746 | qualifier | words like usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely, that are used to temper claims to make them less absolute. | 20 | |
| 6651734747 | qualitative evidence | supported by reason, tradition, or precedent. | 21 | |
| 6651734748 | quantitative evidence | includes things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers--for instance, statistics, surveys, polls, and census information. | 22 | |
| 6651734749 | rebuttal | gives voice to possible objections. | 23 | |
| 6651734761 | stance | a speaker's attitude toward the audience | 24 | |
| 6651734765 | symbol | a setting, an object, or an event in a story that carries more than literal meaning and therefore represents something significant to understanding the meaning of a work of literature. | 25 | |
| 6651734770 | tone | a speaker's attitude toward the subject as conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. | 26 | |
| 6651734772 | trope | artful diction; a figure of speech such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, metonymy or synecdoche | 27 | |
| 6651734775 | wit | use of laughter, humor, irony, and satire in the confirmation or refutation of an argument. | 28 | |
| 6651734776 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings. | 29 |
