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Argument
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a mode of discourse in which the writer presents a logical assertion or a series of assertions for or against some subject
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asyndeton
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commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words, speeds up flow of sentence, X,Y,Z as opposed to X,Y, and Z.
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character
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those who carry out the action of the plot in literature
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chiasmus
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arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of X Y Y X
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cliche
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an overused saying or idea
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colloquialism
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slang in writing, used often to create local color and to provide an informal tone
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connotation
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the feelings or emotions surrounding/ associated with a word, beyond its literal meaning
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deductive reasoning
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reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
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denotation
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the literal or dictionary meaning of a word.
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dependent clause
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does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence, even though it has a subject and a verb
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