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| 10252413644 | AUTHORITY | the power to determine, someone who has the right to control |  | 0 |
| 10252413645 | AUDIENCE | spectator that is listening to a speech, movie, song etc |  | 1 |
| 10252415349 | BACKING | having evidence to back up your claim or argrument |  | 2 |
| 10252426463 | ASSERTION | A positve statement |  | 3 |
| 10252427731 | MEANS VS. END | the sole puropse of achieving something |  | 4 |
| 10252430542 | DEDUCTIVE REASONING | using logic to draw a conclusion |  | 5 |
| 10252457959 | INDUCTIVE REASONING | Having lots of data to draw a conclusion | | 6 |
| 10252459016 | ALLITERATION | Repetition of a constant sound |  | 7 |
| 10252459017 | TONE | The attitude used in writing or when someone is speaking |  | 8 |
| 10252476132 | DICTION | A writer's or speaker's choice of words |  | 9 |
| 10305483819 | Denotation | Literal meaning of a word |  | 10 |
| 10305485997 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |  | 11 |
| 10305491806 | Colloquial | Conversational |  | 12 |
| 10305492451 | Formal | following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way |  | 13 |
| 10305493387 | Informal | Casual having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial style, manner, or nature. |  | 14 |
| 10305496074 | Concrete | Specific definite or specific; real, tangible |  | 15 |
| 10305500151 | Abstract | Hard to understand |  | 16 |
| 10305503158 | DETAIL | Facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in the work |  | 17 |
| 10305511496 | Mood | How the reader feels about the text while reading. |  | 18 |
| 10305512267 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 19 |
| 10305513340 | Setting | The time and place of a story |  | 20 |
| 10305516824 | Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. |  | 21 |
| 10305517632 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event |  | 22 |
| 10305518464 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |  | 23 |
| 10305519033 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 24 |
| 10305521227 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea |  | 25 |
| 10305521825 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration |  | 26 |
| 10305522694 | Understatement | A statement that says less than what is meant |  | 27 |
| 10305525727 | Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself |  | 28 |
| 10305528127 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |  | 29 |
| 10305528570 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way |  | 30 |
| 10305529482 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |  | 31 |
| 10305532024 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it |  | 32 |
| 10305533481 | Synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object |  | 33 |
| 10305543746 | RHETORICAL MODES/ MODES OF DISCLOSURE | exposition, description, narration, argumentation |  | 34 |
| 10305544146 | Exemplification | Providing examples in service of a point. |  | 35 |
| 10305549840 | Cause & Effect | The reason something happens and the result of it happening. |  | 36 |
| 10305551085 | Description | A spoken or written summary of observations |  | 37 |
| 10305554295 | Process Analysis | Explains how something works, how to do something, or how something was done |  | 38 |
| 10305554842 | Narration | writing that tells a story Retelling an event or series of events |  | 39 |
| 10305556454 | Comparison & Contrast | similarities and differences |  | 40 |
| 10305556937 | Exposition | Background information presented in a literary work. |  | 41 |
| 10305557695 | Argrumentation | the process of developing or presenting an argument |  | 42 |
| 10305565788 | Repetittion | Something repeating |  | 43 |
| 10305567544 | POINT OF VIEW | the vantage point from which the writer tells the story. |  | 44 |
| 10305568788 | First Person | "I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective. |  | 45 |
| 10305569928 | Second Person | Told from the reader's point of view, using "you" |  | 46 |
| 10305570355 | Third Person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer |  | 47 |
| 10305570684 | Subjective | Based on personal opinions, feelings, and attitudes; not objective |  | 48 |
| 10305574302 | Objective | omething that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish |  | 49 |
| 10305601492 | SYNTAX | THE STRUCTURE OF A PHRASE OR SENTENCE. |  | 50 |
| 10305602753 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |  | 51 |
| 10305604802 | Antithesis | Direct opposite |  | 52 |
| 10305605952 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions |  | 53 |
| 10305614041 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions |  | 54 |
| 10305615026 | Parallel Structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures |  | 55 |
| 10305639625 | Periodic Structure | A sentence in which the main clause or predicate is withheld until the end. |  | 56 |
| 10305641209 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer |  | 57 |
| 10305643924 | Inverted Syntax | reversing the normal word order of a sentence |  | 58 |
