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| 4401740650 | Anecdote | a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident | 0 | |
| 4401746446 | Diction | word choice (Be sure to precede this with an adjective, like "colloquial diction" or "violent diction.") | 1 | |
| 4401748804 | Denotation | the straightforward (dictionary) definition of a word | 2 | |
| 4401756393 | Euphemism | a more agreeable word substituted for an unpleasant one ("touched" instead of "crazy"; "passed away" instead of "died") | 3 | |
| 4401769089 | Colloquialism | slang and use of familiar expressions | 4 | |
| 4401774927 | Connotation | emotional overtones of a word (poison, victim, seized or gently, brutally, softly, harshly) | 5 | |
| 4401785436 | Figurative Language | language not to be taken literally |  | 6 |
| 4401855137 | Allusion | reference to history, mythology, or literature | 7 | |
| 4401858725 | Analogy | illustration of an idea by means of a more familiar idea that is similar or parallel | 8 | |
| 4401865872 | Apostrophe | addressing an absent figure or abstraction | 9 | |
| 4401871338 | Extended metaphor | a metaphor defined with several examples ("Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul/And sings the tune--without words/And never stops at all." Emily Dickinson) | 10 | |
| 4401887665 | Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration (adj. form: hyperbolic) | 11 | |
| 4401893535 | Imagery | any description that appeals to one of the five senses | 12 | |
| 4401896367 | Juxtaposition | the placing of two unlike things close together for effect | 13 | |
| 4401907053 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (jumbo shrimp, "hideous luxuriance"--Nathaniel Hawthorne) | 14 | |
| 4401919518 | Paradox | statement that seems impossible or not true but proves true ("And I like large parties. They're so intimate."--Fitzgerald) | 15 | |
| 4401935658 | Understatement | minimalizes a fact (A person who just got a 5 on the AP Language exam says, "I did alright.") | 16 | |
| 4401980329 | Modes of Discourse | the categories of delivery: narration, description, exposition, and persuasion | 17 | |
| 4401985928 | Narration | account of an event | 18 | |
| 4401987761 | Description | pictures a place or object or setting | 19 | |
| 4401987762 | Exposition | explains events; can include classification, comparison/contrast, definition, or analysis | 20 | |
| 4401989695 | Persuasion | one of the major types of composition whose purpose is to convince others of the wisdom of a certain line of action | 21 | |
| 4402009861 | Rhetoric | the deliberate exploitation of eloquence for the most persuasive effect in public speaking or writing | 22 | |
| 4402801828 | Shift | change in position; movement (as in tone shift, shift in point of view) | 23 | |
| 4402805713 | Satire | writing that exposes the failings (vice or folly) of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn in order to change it | 24 | |
| 4402815129 | Inference | information derived by reasoning | 25 | |
| 4402816662 | Invective | the harsh denunciation of some person or thing in abusive speech or writing | 26 | |
| 4402819215 | Parody | imitation of serious work or style in a ridiculous manner (Saturday Night Live) | 27 | |
| 4402825580 | Lampoon | imitation in writing (humorous) harsh satire directed toward an individual or thing | 28 | |
| 4402833359 | Sarcasm | technique that ridicules through caustic language | 29 | |
| 4402835523 | Style | blend of choices about diction, syntax, and figurative language unique to individuals | 30 | |
| 4402842596 | Syntax | the way in which words or phrases are ordered and connected to form sentences; or the set of grammatical rules governing such an order | | 31 |
| 4402849174 | Antecedent | word referred to by a pronoun | 32 | |
| 4402850809 | Clause | group of words with a subject and verb; can be independent or subordinate (dependent) | 33 | |
| 4402856575 | Antithesis | a balance of opposites; opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel order | 34 | |
| 4402880653 | Loose sentence | sentence in which the main idea comes first (aka cumulative sentence) | 35 | |
| 4402886305 | Periodic sentence | sentence in which the main idea comes last | 36 | |
| 4402889375 | Pacing | rate at which the text develops (slow, fast, hurried) based on length and arrangement of sentences | 37 | |
| 4402893783 | Parallelism | the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses or sentences suggesting some correspondence between them | 38 | |
| 4402900473 | Repetition | repeating a word for emphasis | 39 | |
| 4402902530 | Tone | writer's attitude toward the subject and audience--created by diction, details, images, language, and syntax | 40 | |
| 4402910897 | Levels of diction | formal, standard, and informal | 41 | |
| 4402918113 | Formal diction | --used when addressing a highly educated audience (scholarly journals, etc.) --EX: edify, optate, beguile | 42 | |
| 4402922486 | Standard diction | --used when addressing a well-educated audience (college papers, mass publications) --EX: learn, choose, mislead | 43 | |
| 4402935154 | Informal diction | --used when addressing a familiar or specific audience (personal letters, emails, texts) --Includes slang | 44 |
