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| 14604142782 | alliteration | the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 14604146269 | allusion | an indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event | 1 | |
| 14604155078 | analogy | an extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things | 2 | |
| 14604174194 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 14604178742 | anecdote | a short account of an interesting event | 4 | |
| 14604184351 | annotation | explanatory or critical notes added to a text | 5 | |
| 14604186740 | antecedent | the noun to which a later pronoun refers | 6 | |
| 14604189984 | antimetabole | the repetition of words in an inverted to sharpen a contrast | 7 | |
| 14604194789 | antithesis | parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | 8 | |
| 14604195901 | aphorism | a short, astute statement of a general truth | 9 | |
| 14604197175 | appositive | a word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 10 | |
| 14604205392 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated anguage | 11 | |
| 14604208116 | argument | a statement put forth and supported by evidence | 12 | |
| 14604212506 | aristotelian triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle) | 13 | |
| 14604214416 | assertion | an emphatic statement; declaration. an assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument. | 14 | |
| 14604220504 | assumption | a belief or statement taken for granted without proof | 15 | |
| 14604226956 | asyndeton | leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses | 16 | |
| 14604230157 | attitude | the speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone | 17 | |
| 14604232496 | audience | one's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. | 18 | |
| 14604235493 | authority | a reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge. | 19 | |
| 14604236686 | bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue. | 20 | |
| 14604240294 | cite | identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source. | 21 | |
| 14604240919 | claim | an assertion, usually supported by evidence | 22 | |
| 14604242062 | 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 | |
| 14604249050 | colloquial(ism) | an informal or conversational use of language. | 24 | |
| 14604252086 | common ground | shared beliefs, values, or positions | 25 | |
| 14604253363 | complex sentence | a sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 26 | |
| 14604261619 | concession | a reluctant acknowledgement of yielding | 27 | |
| 14604262448 | connotation | that which is implied by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning (see denotation) | 28 | |
| 14604269885 | context | words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 29 | |
| 14604270864 | coordination | grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but | 30 | |
| 14604280928 | counterargument | a challenge to a position; an opposing argument | 31 | |
| 14604282327 | cumulative sentence | an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail | 32 | |
| 14604288045 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 33 | |
| 14604289258 | deduction | reasoning from general to specific | 34 | |
| 14604294429 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word; its dictionary definition | 35 | |
| 14604296073 | diction | word choice | 36 | |
| 14604298676 | documentation | bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing | 37 | |
| 14604302353 | elegiac | mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 38 | |
| 14604304545 | epigram | a brief, witty statement | 39 | |
| 14604308761 | ethos | a greek term referring to the character of a person; one of aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos) | 40 | |
| 14604315242 | figurative language | the use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect | 41 | |
| 14604316829 | figure of speech | an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning | 42 | |
| 14604320073 | hyperbole | exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis | 43 | |
| 14604322608 | imagery | vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) | 44 | |
| 14604325239 | imperative sentence | a sentence that requests or commands. | 45 | |
| 14604326603 | induction | reasoning from specific to general | 46 | |
| 14604327796 | inversion | a sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 47 | |
| 14604329191 | irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant; incongruity between action and result. | 48 | |
| 14604331015 | juxtaposition | placement of two things side by side for emphasis | 49 | |
| 14604333906 | logos | a greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of aristotle's three rhetorical appeals | 50 | |
| 14604389023 | metaphor | a figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison | 51 | |
| 14604394254 | metonymy | use of an aspect of something to represent the whole | 52 | |
| 14604398415 | occasion | an aspect of context; the cause or reason fro writing | 53 | |
| 14604400167 | oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two contradictory | 54 | |
| 14604406593 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 55 | |
| 14604407180 | parallelism | the repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 56 | |
| 14604407895 | parody | a piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another; used for comic effect or ridicule. | 57 | |
| 14604410693 | pathos | a greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and logos) | 58 | |
| 14604415612 | persona | the speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing | 59 | |
| 14604420253 | personification | assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 60 | |
| 14604423304 | polemic | an argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion | 61 | |
| 14604425753 | polysyndeton | the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions. | 62 | |
| 14604430632 | premise: major, minor | two parts of a syllogism. the concluding sentence of a syllogism takes its predicate from the major premise and its subject from the minor premise. major premise: all mammals are warm-blooded minor premise: all horses are mammals conclusion: all horses are warm-blooded (see syllogism) | 63 | |
| 14604451211 | propaganda | a negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 64 | |
| 14604453589 | purpose | one's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing | 65 | |
| 14604455757 | refute | to discredit an argument, particularly a counterargument | 66 | |
| 14604461338 | rhetoric | the study of effective, persuasive language use; according to aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion" | 67 | |
| 14604465667 | rhetorical modes | patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation. | 68 | |
| 14604467173 | rhetorical question | a question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 69 | |
| 14604469354 | rhetorical triangle | a diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see aristotelian triangle) | 70 | |
| 14604471616 | satire | an ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues against it | 71 | |
| 14604473392 | scheme | a pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 72 | |
| 14604477390 | sentence patterns | the arrangement of independent and dependent clauses into known sentence constructions—such as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex | 73 | |
| 14604478901 | sentence variety | using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect | 74 | |
| 14604480819 | simile | a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things | 75 | |
| 14604487587 | simple sentence | a statement containing a subject and predicate; an independent clause. | 76 | |
| 14604491336 | source | a book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information. | 77 | |
| 14604492200 | 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 | 78 | |
| 14604846069 | straw man | a logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponent's position. | 79 | |
| 14604846418 | style | the distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech | 80 | |
| 14604852236 | subject | in rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing | 81 | |
| 14604853923 | subordinate clause | created by a subordinating conjunction, a clause that modifies an independent clause | 82 | |
| 14604856373 | subordination | the dependence of one syntactical element on another in a sentence | 83 | |
| 14604858230 | syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which the conclusion is supported by a major and minor premise (see premise; major, and minor) | 84 | |
| 14604862758 | syntax | sentence structure | 85 | |
| 14604865076 | synthesize | combining or bringing together two or more elements to produce something more complex. | 86 | |
| 14604867721 | thesis | the central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer | 87 | |
| 14604869957 | thesis statement | a statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit | 88 | |
| 14604871347 | tone | the speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience | 89 | |
| 14604875891 | topic sentence | a sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis | 90 | |
| 14604878458 | trope | artful diction; the use of language in a non-literal way; also called a figure of speech | 91 | |
| 14604879900 | understatement | lack of emphasis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 92 | |
| 14604881441 | voice | in grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). in rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing | 93 | |
| 14604884146 | zeugma | a construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence. | 94 |
