| A | B |
|---|
| abhor | to hate very much, to detest |
| abominate | to dislike strongly, loath |
| abridge | to shorten, to condense |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| abut | to border upon, to adjoin |
| abyss | bottomless pit, very deep |
| accolade | an award, an honor, praise |
| adjunct | something connected or added to another at a lower level, an assistant |
| affidavit | a sworn written statement |
| affinity | a natural attraction, similarity |
| situational irony | something unexpected happens, an ambulance running over a person |
| verbal irony | say something but you mean the opposite |
| dramatic irony | the reader knows something the the character in the story does not |
| persuasive writing | writing that tries to get the reader to share a like opinion or idea |
| expository writing | writing that explains something |
| narrative writing | writing that tells a personal story of an event that happened |
| logos | persuasion through the use of logic/facts |
| pathos | persuasion through the use of emotion |
| ethos | persuasion through the use of ethics, credibility with some logic |
| bias | your own personal thoughts, opinions, beliefs on a topic |
