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appeal to authority

In a text, the reference to words, action, or beliefs of a person in

authority as a means of supporting a claim, generalization, or conclusion.

2. appositive

A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or

amplifies its meaning.

3. argument

A carefully constructed, well-supported representation of how a writer sees

an issue, problem, or subject

4. arrangement

In a spoken or written text, the placement of ideas for effect.

5. assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more

adjacent words.

6. assumption

An opinion, a perspective, or a belief that a writer or speaker thinks the

audience holds.

7. asyndeton

The omission of conjunctions between related clauses-for example, "I came,

I saw, I conquered."

8. attitude

the manner in which an action is carried out.

9. audience

The person or persons who listen to a spoken text or read a written one and

are capable of responding to it.

10. begging of the question

The situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs

an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept.

11. claim

The ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point that a syllogism or enthymeme

expresses. The point, backed up by support, of an argument.

Allegory

A piece of visual or narrative media uses one thing to “stand in for” a different,

hidden idea. It’s a little bit like an algebraic equation, like y = 2x, but in the form of art.

Like in algebra, when we talk about meaning in allegory, we have two different variables

we’re thinking about, but we don’t call them X and Y. Instead, we call them the tenor and

the vehicle. A “tenor” is the “hidden” concept, object, idea, or ulterior meaning; and the

“vehicle” is the word, image, or narrative in the story that “carries” it.

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2. alliteration

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two

or more adjacent words.

3. allusion

A reference to a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular

body of knowledge

4. anadiplosis

The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the

following clause.

5. anaphora

The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.

6. anecdote

A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audience's attention or to

support a generalization or claim.

7. anticipated objection

The technique a writer or speaker uses in an argumentative text to

address and answer objections, even though the audience has not had the opportunity

to voice these objections.

8. antimetabole

The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical

order-for example, "You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the

country out of the boy."

9. antithesis

The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure-for

example, "Place your virtues on a pedestal; put your vices under a rock.”

10. Anthimeria (also known as antimeria)

The substitution of one part of speech for

another-for example, "The poet says we 'milestone our lives."' or “The little old lady

turtled down the road.”

11. apologist

A person or character who makes a case for some controversial, even

contentious, position.

12. apology

An elaborate statement justifying some controversial, even contentious,

position