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| 13975713470 | Ad Hominem Argument | Attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand | 0 | |
| 13975714792 | Allegory | Fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts | 1 | |
| 13975717385 | Allusion | A reference to another thing, idea, or person (usually to something historical or literary) | 2 | |
| 13975740120 | Analogy | the correspondence or resemblance between two things that are essentially different | 3 | |
| 13975747758 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 4 | |
| 13975754789 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 5 | |
| 13975760037 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 6 | |
| 13975762290 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 7 | |
| 13975766281 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 8 | |
| 13975769278 | colloquial language | Slang or common language that is informal | 9 | |
| 13975770664 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 10 | |
| 13975777058 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 11 | |
| 13975778640 | denotation | dictionary definition | 12 | |
| 13975780718 | diction | word choice | 13 | |
| 13975780719 | didactic | intended to instruct | 14 | |
| 13975782236 | elegy | expresses sorrow | 15 | |
| 13975789375 | epigram | witty comment | 16 | |
| 13975790272 | ethos | credibility | 17 | |
| 13975792341 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 18 | |
| 13975824683 | exposition | writing that is organized to explain | 19 | |
| 13975961292 | imperative sentence | command | 20 | |
| 13975963516 | interrogative sentence | asks a question | 21 | |
| 13975964680 | invective | bitter, critical statement about something else | 22 | |
| 13975966499 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 23 | |
| 13975974094 | juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 24 | |
| 13975976944 | logos | an appeal based on logic or reason | 25 | |
| 13975978572 | loose sentence | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | 26 | |
| 13975980110 | oxymoron | two contradictory words in expression | 27 | |
| 13975981869 | Paradox | seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth | 28 | |
| 13975983908 | parallelism | technique relying on the repeated use of the same syntactical structures | 29 | |
| 13975988388 | parody | humorous imitation | 30 | |
| 13975990284 | pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness | 31 | |
| 13975993170 | pedantic | tending to show off one's learning | 32 | |
| 13975993895 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 33 | |
| 13975998090 | pun | A play on words | 34 | |
| 13975998851 | repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis | 35 | |
| 13975999606 | rhetoric | the art of using language effectively and persuasively | 36 | |
| 13976005770 | rhetorical strategies | The way an author organizes words, sentences, and overall argument in order to achieve a particular purpose | 37 | |
| 13976016809 | rhetorical devices | techniques writers use to enhance their arguments and communicate more effectively | 38 | |
| 13976019712 | rhetorical question | a question asked for the arg.'s sake | 39 | |
| 13976028890 | satire | ridicule | 40 | |
| 13976038832 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. Ms G is teacher. Teachers good at math. Ms G is mathtician | 41 | |
| 13976044851 | syntax | particular word arrangement in sentence | 42 | |
| 13976048544 | vernacular | casual speech of region | 43 |
