Echo Question - Eye Dialect

A type of direct question that repeats part or all of something which someone else has just said.

(1) A word or phrase that imitates the sound associated with the object or action it refers to: an onomatope. (2) A word or phrase that contains two identical or very similar parts: a reduplicative. (3) A word or phrase that recurs in a sentence or paragraph.

An exclamation expressing emotion.

See "Standard American English."

A stage of the writing process in which a writer strives to improve a draft (and sometimes prepare it for publication) by correcting errors and by making words and sentences clearer, more precise, and more effective.

In conversation analysis, a filler word (such as "um") or a cue phrase ("let's see") used to mark a hesitation in speech.

(1) An individual who oversees the preparation of text in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books. (2) An individual who assists an author in copyediting a text.

Personal description; a head-to-toe inventory of a person's physical attributes or charms.

A word or phrase that is used by mistake, usually because it is a homophone or sounds similar to the original word or phrase.

Ekphrasis is a rhetorical and poetic figure in which a visual object (usually a work of art) is vividly described in words.

A phrase coined by Henry W. Fowler to refer to the excessive use of synonyms to mean a single thing.

In a dialogue, the so-called "Socratic method" of questioning someone to test the cogency or credibility of what he or she has said.

(1) The omission of a sound in pronunciation. (2) The omission (sometimes indicated in print by an apostrophe) of an unstressed vowel, consonant, or syllable.

The omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader.

One of three equally spaced points ( . . . ) used in writing or printing to indicate the omission of words in a quotation.

The art of effective public speaking.

Eloquence is the quality of forceful, elegant, and persuasive discourse.

A question that appears in a declarative statement or in another question.

In generative grammar, embedding is the process by which one clause is included (embedded) in another.

Hesitation forms in speech.

An emoticon is an ASCII character used in online writing to indicate a writer's mood or attitude.

The placement of words and ideas in key positions to give them special weight and prominence.

A figure of syntactic substitution in which one grammatical form (person, case, gender, number, tense) is replaced by another, usually ungrammatical form.

A visually powerful description that vividly recreates something or someone in words.

A tribute or eulogy in prose or verse honoring people, objects, ideas, or events.

A reference, explanation, or comment placed at the end of an article, chapter, or book.

A name used by a group of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.

The use of a third-person pronoun or other word or phrase to refer to someone or something inside the same text.

In grammar, the principle by which longer structures tend to occur later in a sentence than shorter structures.

Dull, stilted, and lifeless prose.

A traditional term for the use or study of the English language by non-native speakers in countries where English is generally not a local medium of communication.

The primary language of several countries (including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and a second language in a number of multilingual countries (including India, Singapore, and the Philippines)

The variety of the English language spoken by people who acquired English as their first language or mother tongue.

A traditional term for the use or study of the English language by non-native speakers in an English-speaking environment.

The English-only movement is a political movement that seeks to establish English as the sole official language of the United States or of any particular city or state within the U.S.

In semantics, the principal that under certain conditions the truth of one statement ensures the truth of a second statement.

An informally stated syllogism with an implied premise.

Enumeratio (or enumeration) is a rhetorical term for the listing of details--a type of amplification.

(1) A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at regular intervals: a refrain. (2) Repetition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word or phrase with which it began.

A figure of speech in which something said or written is corrected or commented on.

In phonology and phonetics, epenthesis is the insertion of an extra sound into a word.

Adding words or phrases to further clarify a statement already made.

(1) In traditional grammar, a noun that can refer to either sex without changing its form. (2) A gender-neutral pronoun--also known as a generic pronoun.

Circumstance in which a speaker quotes a passage and comments on it.

Speech or writing that praises or blames.

An epigram is a concise, clever, often paradoxical statement or poem.

(1) A brief motto or quotation set at the beginning of a text to suggest its theme. (2) words inscribed on a wall, a building, or the base of a statue.

An epilogue is a concluding section of (or a postscript to) a speech or literary work.

Frequent repetition of a phrase or question; dwelling on a point.

A term in literary criticism for a sudden realization--a flash of recognition in which someone or something is seen in a new light.

Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses.

Asking questions to reproach rather than to elicit answers.

In classical rhetoric, the domain of true knowledge.

A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

(1) A short inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone or monument. (2) A statement or speech commemorating someone who has died: a funeral oration.

A rhetorical term for an adjective (or adjective phrase) used to characterize a person or thing.

An argumentative strategy (an ironic type of concession) by which a speaker either pretends to express agreement with an opponent or encourages an opponent to do something that the speaker actually objects to.

Repetition of a word for emphasis (usually with no words in between).

A word that is derived from the proper name of a real or mythical person or place.

A fallacy by which a key word or phrase in an argument is used with more than one meaning.

Erotesis is a rhetorical question implying strong affirmation or denial.

An essay is a short work of nonfiction. In an essay, an authorial voice typically invites an implied reader to accept as authentic a certain textual mode of experience.

An essayist is a writer of essays.

A contemporary variety of British English: a mixture of non-regional and southeastern English pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.

An ethnic dialect is the distinct form of a language spoken by members of a particular ethnic group.

Putting oneself in place of another so as to both understand and express his or her feelings more vividly.

Persuasive appeal based on the projected character of the speaker or narrator.

The etymological fallacy is the faulty argument that the "true" or "proper" meaning of a word is its oldest or original meaning.

The origin or derivation of a word.

The linguistic form from which a later form of a word derives: an earlier version of a word in the same language or a word in a foreign language that is the source of a particular loanword.

A formal expression of praise for someone who has recently died.

Substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.

Euphuism is an elaborately patterned prose style.

An emerging variety of the English language used by speakers in the European Union whose mother tongue is not English.

A composition that offers value judgments about a subject according to a set of criteria.

Facts, documentation, or testimony used to strengthen a claim or reach a conclusion.

A method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer clarifies, explains, or justifies a point through narrative or informative details.

In rhetoric, a particular instance that serves to illustrate a principle or support a claim.

A sudden, forceful expression or cry.

A punctuation mark (!) used after a sentence that expresses a strong emotion.

A question that has the meaning and force of an exclamatory statement.

An exclamatory sentence is a sentence that expresses strong feelings by making an exclamation.

A speech that attempts to encourage, motivate, or incite an audience through strong emotional appeals.

In rhetoric, an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak.

A sentence that asserts the existence or nonexistence of something. For this purpose, English relies on constructions introduced by "There."

A sentence that asserts the existence or nonexistence of something. For this purpose, English relies on constructions introduced by "There."

See "existential sentence."

A name used in a particular language for a geographical feature outside the area where that language is spoken, and differing in its form from the name used in an official language of that area where the feature is located.

The use of a pronoun or other word or phrase to refer to someone or something outside the text.

The introductory part of an argument in which a speaker or writer establishes credibility (ethos) and announces the subject and purpose of the discourse.

Countries in which English has no special administrative status but is recognized as a lingua franca and widely studied as a foreign language.

In an argument, expeditio is the rejection of all but one of various alternatives.

A construction that begins with the word "here," "there," or "it" and is followed by a form of the verb "to be."

A short work of nonfiction in which a writer works through a problem or examines an idea or experience, without necessarily attempting to back up a claim or support a thesis.

A statement or type of composition intended to give information about (or an explanation of) an issue, subject, method, or idea.

A pedagogical term for any form of writing that conveys information and explains ideas: exposition.

In composition studies, writing or speech that focuses on the identity and/or the experience of the writer or speaker.

In a paragraph or essay, an explanation and/or illustration of a word, thing, or concept.

A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

See "broadening."

Emotional utterance that seeks to move hearers to a like feeling.

The representation of regional or dialectal variations by spelling words in nonstandard ways.