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| 6107298411 | Satire | A work that targets human voices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. Best seen as a style of writing rather than a purpose for writing. | 0 | |
| 6107298412 | Semantics | The branch of linguistic that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their conditions, and their relation to one another. | 1 | |
| 6107298751 | Semiotics | The study of signs and symbols and how they are used. | 2 | |
| 6107300613 | Style | The consideration of this has two purposes, an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in literary devices, and classification of authors to a group and comparison of authors to similar authors. | 3 | |
| 6107300614 | Subject Complement | The word or clauses that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either renaming it or describing it. | 4 | |
| 6107302392 | Subordinate Clause | Like all clauses, this word group contains both a subject and a verb, but unlike the independent clause, this cannot stand alone; it does not express a complete thought. | 5 | |
| 6107302393 | Syllogism | A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. | 6 | |
| 6107304101 | Symbol/Symbolism | Anything that represents itself and stands for something else, usually something concrete that represents something more abstract | 7 | |
| 6107307935 | Synecdoche | A type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for the part, the genus for the species, the genus for the specie. | 8 | |
| 6107310838 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences; similar to diction, but you can differentiate between them by thinking of this as the group of words. | 9 | |
| 6107310839 | Theme | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life; usually this is unstated in fictional works. | 10 | |
| 6107310840 | Thesis | In expository writing, this is the sentence of a group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position. | 11 | |
| 6107312397 | Tone | Similar to mood, tone describes the author's attitude toward his/her material, the audience, or both. This is easier to determine in spoken language than in written language. | 12 | |
| 6107312398 | Transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas, used especially in expository and argumentative writing. This effectively signals a shift from one idea to another. | 13 | |
| 6107312411 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, this presents something as less significant than it is, the effect of this can frequently be humorous and empathetic. | 14 | |
| 6107314388 | Undertone | An attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece. | 15 | |
| 6107314389 | Wit | In modern usage, intellectually amazing language that surprises and delights. This is humorous, while suggesting the speaker's verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks. | 16 |
