A rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing.
What is apostrophe
100
A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating truth or falsehood.
What is an argument
100
The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
What is assonance
100
The omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses (opposite of polysyndeton).
What is asyndeton
200
a brief reference to a person place or event
What is allusion
200
An individual (usually a person) in a narrative (usually a work of fiction or creative nonfiction).
What is character
200
A group of words that contains a subject and a predicate.
What is clause
200
A word or word group that completes the predicate in a sentence.
What is complement
200
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
What is connotation
300
the presence of two or more possible meaning in any passage
What is ambiguity
300
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
What is chiasmus
300
Mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel construction with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of a series of events.
What is climax
300
An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent's point.
What is concession
300
The grammatical connection of two or more ideas to give them equal emphasis and importance. Contrast with subordination.
What is coordination
400
reasoning or arguing from parallel cases
What is an analogy
400
An argument that commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove.
What is circular argument
400
Characteristic of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language as distinct from formal or literary English.
What is colloqial
400
The main part of a text in which logical arguments in support of a position are elaborated.
What is confirmation
400
A method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises.
What is deduction
500
the repitition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
What is anaphora
500
An arguable statement, which may be a claim of fact, value, or policy.
What is claim
500
A rhetorical strategy in which a writer examines similarities and/or differences between two people, places, ideas, or objects.
What is comparison
500
The part of speech (or word class) that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences
What is conjunction
500
The direct or dictionary meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.