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| 10940956191 | concrete | existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract. | 0 | |
| 10940956192 | literal | Exactly true, rather than figurative or metaphorical | 1 | |
| 10940956193 | abstract | existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. | 2 | |
| 10940956194 | euphonious | pleasing to the ear | 3 | |
| 10940956195 | figurative | symbolic | 4 | |
| 10940956196 | monosyllabic | having only one syllable | 5 | |
| 10940956197 | polysyllabic | having many syllables | 6 | |
| 10940956198 | cacophonous | harsh sounding | 7 | |
| 10940956199 | Jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. | 8 | |
| 10940956200 | colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 9 | |
| 10940956201 | slang | informal language | 10 | |
| 10940956202 | formal | following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way | 11 | |
| 10940956203 | informal | not formal | 12 | |
| 10940956204 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word | 13 | |
| 10940956205 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 14 | |
| 10940956206 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 15 | |
| 10940956207 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 16 | |
| 10940956208 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 17 | |
| 10940956209 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 18 | |
| 10940956210 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 19 | |
| 10940956211 | Syllepsis/Zeugma | a construction in which one word is used in two different senses | 20 | |
| 10940956212 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 21 | |
| 10940956213 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 22 | |
| 10940956214 | Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 23 | |
| 10940956215 | Litotes/meiosis | understatement | 24 | |
| 10940956216 | Hypophora | raising a question then proceeding to answer it | 25 | |
| 10940956217 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 26 | |
| 10940956218 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 27 | |
| 10940956219 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 28 | |
| 10940956220 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 29 | |
| 10940956221 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 30 | |
| 10940956222 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 31 | |
| 10940956223 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 32 | |
| 10940956224 | Idiom/Cliche | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words | 33 | |
| 10940956225 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 34 | |
| 10940956226 | Syntax | The way words are arranged in a sentence | 35 | |
| 10940956227 | scheme | artful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence | 36 | |
| 10940956228 | declarative | makes a statement ex. i am tired | 37 | |
| 10940956229 | imperative | A sentence that requests or commands. ex. raise your hand | 38 | |
| 10940956230 | Interrogative | A sentence that asks a question ex. are you tired? | 39 | |
| 10940956231 | exclamatory | makes an exclamation ex. I am tired! | 40 | |
| 10940956232 | telegraphic sentence | A sentence shorter than five words in length. | 41 | |
| 10940956233 | short sentence | 5-8 words in length-tend to be more emotional | 42 | |
| 10940956234 | medium sentence | Approximately 18 words in length | 43 | |
| 10940956235 | long and involved sentence | 30 words or more in length- descriptive with polysyllabic diction | 44 | |
| 10940956236 | clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 45 | |
| 10940956237 | Main/Independent Clause | expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence (knew no fear) | 46 | |
| 10940956238 | dependent/subordinate clause | cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent clause (when i was a small child) | 47 | |
| 10940956239 | simple sentence | only has one independent clause (katelyn and rick are partners for this project) | 48 | |
| 10940956240 | compound sentence | a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses-joined by a conjunction (katelyn and rick are partners on this project, but they each way to be with someone else) | 49 | |
| 10940956241 | complex sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause (because katelyn was absent on tuesday, she was unable to choose her partner) | 50 | |
| 10940956242 | compound-complex sentence | at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses (because katelyn and rick were absent on tuesday, they were unable to choose their partners, so the teacher put them together) | 51 | |
| 10940956243 | loose/cumulative sentence | The subject and verb come at the beginning of the sentence (i balance work, home, and church life with no small amount of resentment) | 52 | |
| 10940956244 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end (at the dawn of time before light or dark, solid or liquid, he spoke) | 53 | |
| 10940956245 | balanced sentence | the phrases or clauses balance each other by virtue of their likeness of structure, meaning, or length (me maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me besides still waters) | 54 | |
| 10940956246 | Verbals | formed from verbs and are used as adjectives, nouns, or adverbs | 55 | |
| 10940956247 | Gerund | A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun | 56 | |
| 10940956248 | participles | Verbal that ends with -ing or -ed -d -t -en and serves as an adjective | 57 | |
| 10940956249 | Infinitive | to + verb (to jump is fun) | 58 | |
| 10940956250 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses (he tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable.) | 59 | |
| 10940956251 | Isocolon | Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length (his purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous) | 60 | |
| 10940956252 | Juxtaposition | broad term for placing ideas side-by-side for the purpose of contrast | 61 | |
| 10940956253 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance (that's one small step for man, one giant step for mankind) | 62 | |
| 10940956254 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order (tires are they who faithfully complete their homework) | 63 | |
| 10940956255 | Parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence () | 64 | |
| 10940956256 | apposition | a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation (john morgan, the president of the organization, could not be reached by phone.) | 65 | |
| 10940956257 | Ellipsis | three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation | 66 | |
| 10940956258 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words (i came, i saw, i conquered) | 67 | |
| 10940956259 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions (basically when the author uses "and" a lot) | 68 | |
| 10940956260 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 69 | |
| 10940956261 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds (finally a kind, reliable, right-minded friend) | 70 | |
| 10940956262 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 71 | |
| 10940956263 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 72 | |
| 10940956264 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause (the crime was common, common be the pain) | 73 | |
| 10940956265 | Climax | arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance | 74 | |
| 10940956266 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 75 |
