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| 14701242632 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 0 | |
| 14701244157 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 1 | |
| 14701247047 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 2 | |
| 14701248351 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 14701258062 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 4 | |
| 14701261455 | Annotation | A brief explanation, summary, or evaluation of a text or work of literature. | 5 | |
| 14701262791 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 6 | |
| 14701264541 | Antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 7 | |
| 14701266754 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 8 | |
| 14701298240 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 9 | |
| 14701301665 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 14701305865 | Archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 11 | |
| 14701309450 | Argument | A statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 14701312861 | Aristotlelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 13 | |
| 14701315764 | Assertion | a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief | 14 | |
| 14701316681 | Assumption | a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof. | 15 | |
| 14701318724 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 16 | |
| 14701319119 | Attitude | feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events | 17 | |
| 14701323504 | Audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 14701324582 | Authority | the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. | 19 | |
| 14701328986 | Bias | A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific. | 20 | |
| 14701329575 | Cite | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 14701330319 | Claim | state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof. | 22 | |
| 14701335429 | Close Reading | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text. | 23 | |
| 14701337049 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 24 | |
| 14701337771 | Common Ground | Shared beliefs, values, or positions. | 25 | |
| 14701339746 | Complex Sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 26 | |
| 14701344968 | Concession | a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conceded. | 27 | |
| 14701346193 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 28 | |
| 14701349311 | Context | the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. | 29 | |
| 14701350487 | coordination | Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but. | 30 | |
| 14701355060 | Counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 14701357208 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 32 | |
| 14701359267 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement or declaration | 33 | |
| 14701362762 | Deduction/Deductive argument | the process of moving from a general rule to a specific example | 34 | |
| 14701368101 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 35 | |
| 14701369776 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 36 | |
| 14701372739 | Documentation | The act of creating citations to identify resources used in writing a work. | 37 | |
| 14701373597 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 38 | |
| 14701374578 | Elegiae | mournful and expressing sorrow | 39 | |
| 14701377924 | Epigram | witty comment | 40 | |
| 14701378531 | Ethos | beliefs or character of a group | 41 | |
| 14701382381 | Figurative Language | Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling. | 42 | |
| 14701386177 | Figure of speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 43 | |
| 14701389263 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 44 | |
| 14701390131 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 45 | |
| 14701391713 | Imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 46 | |
| 14701394125 | Induction/inductive argument | the process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization | 47 | |
| 14701402388 | Inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 48 | |
| 14701403696 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. | 49 | |
| 14701408568 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 50 | |
| 14701412258 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 51 | |
| 14701412700 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 52 | |
| 14701413877 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 53 | |
| 14701416851 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 54 | |
| 14701443810 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 55 | |
| 14701445070 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 56 | |
| 14701448116 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 57 | |
| 14701456843 | Parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 58 | |
| 14701477308 | Pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness | 59 | |
| 14701478899 | Persona | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 60 | |
| 14701482678 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 61 | |
| 14701483243 | Polemic | controversy; argument; verbal attack | 62 | |
| 14701485097 | Polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 63 | |
| 14701489024 | Major premise | the first part of a syllogism, consisting of a general statement about the subject of your argument | 64 | |
| 14701495828 | Minor premise | a statement about a specific case related to the general characteristics of the major premise | 65 | |
| 14701507461 | Propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. | 66 | |
| 14701508532 | Purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 67 | |
| 14701512578 | Refute | to prove to be false | 68 | |
| 14701515804 | Rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. | 69 | |
| 14701518502 | Rhetorical modes | exposition, description, narration, argumentation | 70 | |
| 14701520264 | Rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 71 | |
| 14701521238 | Rhetorical triangle | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. | 72 | |
| 14701521852 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 73 | |
| 14701523501 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 74 | |
| 14701527701 | Sentence patterns | The arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. | 75 | |
| 14701535411 | Sentence variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 76 | |
| 14701535976 | simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 77 | |
| 14701536703 | simple sentence | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | 78 | |
| 14701538831 | situational irony | the situation, event, or action is ironic (a fire department burns down) | 79 | |
| 14701544772 | source | A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 80 | |
| 14701545271 | speaker | A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing | 81 | |
| 14701545883 | style | the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 82 | |
| 14701571199 | subject | who or what the sentence is about | 83 | |
| 14701573251 | subordinate clause | Created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause. | 84 | |
| 14701576178 | subordination | The dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence. | 85 | |
| 14701577507 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 86 | |
| 14701580485 | syntax | Sentence structure | 87 | |
| 14701583540 | synthesize | To combine; to blend | 88 | |
| 14701584225 | thesis | the primary position taken by a writer or speaker | 89 | |
| 14701585318 | trope | The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. | 90 | |
| 14701587556 | understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 91 | |
| 14701590729 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 92 | |
| 14701591208 | voice | The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker. | 93 | |
| 14701592051 | Zeguma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 94 |
