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| 10375362204 | Ad Hominem | In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man." | 0 | |
| 10375362205 | Adage | a familiar proverb or wise saying | 1 | |
| 10375362206 | Allegory | an extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric. | 2 | |
| 10375362207 | Alliteration | the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words | 3 | |
| 10375362208 | Allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical | 4 | |
| 10375362209 | Analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 5 | |
| 10375362210 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. | 6 | |
| 10375362211 | Anecdote | a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event | 7 | |
| 10375362212 | Antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | 8 | |
| 10375362213 | Antithesis | the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. Examples: "To be or not to be..." Shakespeare's Hamlet " | 9 | |
| 10375362214 | Aphorism | a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life. Examples: "Early bird gets the worm." " | 10 | |
| 10375362215 | Apostrophe | usually in poetry but sometimes in prose; the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction | 11 | |
| 10375362216 | Asyndeton | Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words. The parts are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. | 12 | |
| 10375362217 | Caricature | descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance or a facet of personality. | 13 | |
| 10375362218 | Chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 14 | |
| 10375362219 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 15 | |
| 10375362220 | Conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 16 | |
| 10375362221 | Connotation | implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association in the reader's mind. | 17 | |
| 10375362222 | Denotation | literal meaning of a word as defined | 18 | |
| 10375362223 | Diction | word choice, an element of style; it creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning. Different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meaning. An essay written in academic ______ would be much less colorful, but perhaps more precise than street slang. | 19 |
