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a noun is immediately followed by a participile and a preposition phrase or adjective phrase or two "He wore these pants, printed with stripes" |
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| a concept or value that cannot be seen (love, honor) |
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| word that describes a noun |
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Attacking a person rather than the person's argument |
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a statement where direct opposites are contrasted in the same sentence |
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| A brief, sometimes clever saying that expresses a truth or observation about life |
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| another noun, set off by double commas or dashes, that renames the subject |
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| Assertions made based on facts, statistics, etc. |
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| A categorial statement made by the author, narrarator, or character that generalizes an opinion, usually about human nature |
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| A persuasive fallacy in which the writer assumes the reader will automatically accept an assertion without proper support |
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| Author analyzes reasons for a chain of events |
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| A crossing parallelism, where the second part is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order |
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| An inference or conclusion |
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| Author steps outside the story, speaking directly to the reader |
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| Sentence accompanied with a semicolon, with a balanced # of words on each side |
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| An error in persuasion which involves repeating the assertion endlessly without support |
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| speaker cites famous people to lend more credence |
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Provides a break from seriousness |
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An acknowledgement or admission of a point claimed in an argument |
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Writing that says a lot with a few words |
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| Reaffirm or finally states thesis |
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| Examination of two opposites |
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| Emendations are added after the main clause is completed |
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| punctuation device used to denote an abrupt break, pause, or hesitation |
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| Logical thinking that goes from major premises to minor premises |
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| A type of conflict in which both choices have some negative connotations |
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Writing style that is characterized by conciseness and brevity |
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| Author steps outside of story to make an assertion |
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| Influence or result of something |
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| A brief, clever, memorable statment |
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| The substitution of a mild, less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one |
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| Placing two times side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish a purpose |
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Writing that engages in mental exercise to reach spiritual awareness |
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| a group of nouns listed together to add detail or ambiguity |
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| juxtaposition of two unlike things |
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| Recurrent syntactical similarity |
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| used to whisper a witty aside to the reader |
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| Adjective phrase beginning with "ing" that adds more info |
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| emendations are added before the main clause in completed |
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Deals with use of reason in understanding nature of reality, moral judgement, etc. |
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| Question that requires no answer |
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| Short and simple sentence |
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| short sentences connected together by commas |
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| dependent clause beginning with subordinating conjunction |
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| A statement that says less than what it means |
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| Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |
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| identical or near repetition of words in one phrase in reverse order in the next phrase |
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| A figure in which one word of a pair is incongruous with the other |
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