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| 7006110695 | connotation | meaning suggested by associated word or thing | 0 | |
| 7006110696 | denotation | specific/direct meaning of word | 1 | |
| 7006112478 | diction | choice/use of words in speech or writing; also can mean enunciation | 2 | |
| 7006112479 | syntax | pattern of formation of phrases or sentences | 3 | |
| 7006112480 | tone | pitch of a word, phrase, or sentence | 4 | |
| 7006117173 | explicit | clearly expressed; nothing implied | 5 | |
| 7006117174 | implicit | implied, though not directly expressed | 6 | |
| 7006118308 | infer | to conclude from evidence or reasoning | 7 | |
| 7006118309 | parallelism | The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases OR correspondence/similarity | 8 | |
| 7006120573 | periodic sentence | sentence in which the main clause or predicate is withheld until the end | 9 | |
| 7006120574 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea | 10 | |
| 7006125744 | balanced sentence | made up of two segments which are equal, not only in length, but also in grammatical structure and meaning | 11 | |
| 7006125745 | interrupted sentence | sentence where a modifier is placed between the subject and the verb or between the verb and the direct object. | 12 | |
| 7006127181 | antithesis | A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure | 13 | |
| 7006127182 | inversion | An interchange of position of adjacent objects in a sequence, especially a change in normal word order, such as the placement of a verb before its subject | 14 | |
| 7006128465 | analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it | 15 | |
| 7006128466 | metaphor | a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics; "the assignment was a breeze." | 16 | |
| 7006129709 | simile | comparing 2 things by using like or as | 17 | |
| 7006129710 | logical fallacy | an error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid | 18 | |
| 7006131907 | apostrophe | a dramatic address to someone not present | 19 | |
| 7006131908 | allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference | 20 | |
| 7006133768 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 21 | |
| 7006133769 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 22 | |
| 7006134995 | paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true | 23 | |
| 7006135856 | qualification | a statement that modifies or limits the meaning of a claim | 24 | |
| 7006139220 | epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. "old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet "dirty." | 25 | |
| 7006139221 | euphemism | the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one (Passed away instead of died) | 26 | |
| 7006140549 | conceit | a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and clever way. Often, ________ are extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem | 27 | |
| 7006143122 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something represents the whole. So the next time someone says to you, "All hands on deck," tell them thanks for the _________, but you think it's best that your whole body goes on deck, too. (Calling a car "wheels") | 28 | |
| 7006143123 | metonymy | a type of metaphor in which an object is used to describe something that's closely related to it. EX: This team needs some new blood. (Um, gross? We're not talking about blood here, of course—just new team members.) Wall Street is all atwitter with the latest financial gossip. (Can a street be atwitter? Certainly not. But the folks who work there can.) | 29 | |
| 7006144791 | alliteration | term used to describe the repetition of initial consonant sounds | 30 | |
| 7006145952 | onomatopoeia | words that resemble the sound that they represent | 31 | |
| 7006145953 | subjective | based on one's opinions, perspectives, beliefs, discoveries, desires, and feelings | 32 | |
| 7006147035 | objective | not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased | 33 | |
| 7006147036 | cliché | a phrase or opinion that is overused | 34 | |
| 7006148243 | satire | a genre that sets out to improve bad behavior through sarcasm and irony. A satirist humorously depicts a current state of affairs, and hopes that by doing so, he might improve it. It's all about making fun of vices, foolishness, and shortcomings, so that the subject can improve. | 35 | |
| 7006148244 | parody | a text that imitates another work or genre for the sake of a good, hearty laugh. Don't confuse this with satire, which also gets a laugh but isn't in it just for the chuckles. These aren't meant to incite some major social change, and they're not even meant to knock the original work down a notch. | 36 | |
| 7006149530 | irony | contradicting actual and literal meanings | 37 | |
| 7006150576 | architype | a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature | 38 | |
| 7006151818 | antistrophe | a rhetorical device that involves the repetition of the same words at the end of consecutive phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs. EX: "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends." | 39 | |
| 7006153006 | polysyndeton | a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. EX: "We have ships and men and money and stores," the coordinating conjunction "and" is used in quick succession to join words occurring together. | 40 | |
| 7006153990 | asyndeton | words in a list are separated by commas and no conjunctions are used to join the words in a list. EX: "Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?" | 41 | |
| 7006153991 | deduction | when a conclusion follows its premise. EX: Premise: All spiders have eight legs. Premise: My brother's missing tarantula, Fluffles, is a spider. Conclusion: Therefore, Fluffles has eight legs. | 42 | |
| 7006155074 | induction | specific facts and draws conclusions, which may be right or wrong. This is a type of reasoning that assumes that given premises strongly lead to a certain conclusion, but there is not enough evidence to make this conclusion definite, only probable. | 43 | |
| 7006155075 | anaphora | the repetition of phrases at the beginning of clauses. EX: "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. it was the age of wisdom, etc." | 44 | |
| 7006158323 | aphorism | a little saying (kind of like a proverb) that's (a) concise, (b) clever, and (c) truthy. That means that when you read this, you should learn a life lesson in a short amount of time. EX: "A penny saved is a penny earned." | 45 | |
| 7006158324 | epigram | a short, witty, memorable, and often highly quotable statement. EX: "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." | 46 | |
| 7006162028 | analysis | argumentative analysis of a literary work | 47 | |
| 7006162029 | argumentation | the main statement of a poem, an essay, a short story, or a novel that usually appears as an introduction or a point on which the writer will develop his work in order to convince his readers. | 48 | |
| 7006163388 | syllogism | A rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general and from this it draws conclusion about something more specific. For instance, "All dogs are canine. Tommy is a dog. Therefore, Tommy is a canine." | 49 | |
| 7006163389 | enthymeme | An argumentative statement in which the writer or the speaker omits one of the major or minor premises, does not clearly pronounce it, or keeps this premise implied. However, the omitted premise remains understandable even if is not clearly expressed. For instance, "Where there is smoke, there is fire." | 50 | |
| 7006165296 | chiasmus | a specific type of parallelism. It consists of two parallel phrases in which corresponding words or phrases are placed in the opposite order. EX: "Fair is foul, foul is fair." | 51 | |
| 7006166773 | ellipsis | the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues; a set of dots. | 52 | |
| 7006168111 | anadiplosis | the repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. A typical pattern of repeating a word. For example, the repetition of the word "give" in the sentence "When I give, I give myself." | 53 | |
| 7006170457 | epanalepsis | Repetition of same words at the end and start of a sentence. | 54 | |
| 7006171694 | antimetabole | derived from a Greek word which means "turning about". It is a literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order. "You like it; it likes you" and "Fair is foul and foul is fair" | 55 | |
| 7006171695 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 56 | |
| 7006173884 | simple sentence | independent clause | 57 | |
| 7006173885 | compound sentence | independent + independent | 58 | |
| 7006175002 | complex sentence | independent + dependent | 59 | |
| 7006176455 | complex-compound sentence | independent + independent + dependent | 60 | |
| 7006176456 | declarative | declaring | 61 | |
| 7006177981 | exclamatory | exclaiming | 62 | |
| 7006179867 | interrogative | asking listener | 63 | |
| 7006179868 | imperative | telling listener what to do | 64 | |
| 7006181000 | anticedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to, as "the children" in "The teacher asked the children where they were going." | 65 | |
| 7006183692 | nostalgia | A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past | 66 | |
| 7006183693 | dichotomy | A division into two contrasting parts or categories | 67 | |
| 7006185326 | paradigm shift | fundamental change in observing the world | 68 | |
| 7006185327 | enumerate | to determine number of or to count off | 69 |
