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| 4819704068 | Balance | The syntactic structure of each sentence supports its meaning. Similar ideas are expressed in similar grammatical structure, contrasting ideas in a contrasting grammatical structure, or a series of ideas in climactic order. | 0 | |
| 4819711466 | Parallelism | Expresses similar or related ideas in similar grammatical structures | 1 | |
| 4819713664 | Chiasmus | Grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words. | 2 | |
| 4819714649 | Climax | Writer arranges ideas in order of importance | 3 | |
| 4819714650 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas | 4 | |
| 4819715458 | Zeugma | 1. "yoking" 2. when an object-taking word has two or more objects on different levels, such as concrete and abstract wherein figurative and literal senses of the transitive word are "yoked" together by the conjunction. 3. when two different words that sound exactly alike are "yoked" together | 5 | |
| 4819734602 | Anastrophe | word order is reversed or rearranged | 6 | |
| 4819734603 | Apposition | the placing next to a noun another noun or phrase that explains it. | 7 | |
| 4819735471 | Parenthesis | the insertion of words, phrases, or a sentence that is not syntactically related to the rest of the sentence. Can be set off from the rest of the sentence either by dashes or parentheses. | 8 | |
| 4819735472 | Omission | words can be left out for stylistic preferences or for emphasis. | 9 | |
| 4819735473 | Asyndenton | conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose | 10 | |
| 4819736542 | Repetition | writers can repeat any element for emphasis (sound, word phrase, clause, or sentence) | 11 | |
| 4819736543 | Epanalepsis | Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning | 12 | |
| 4819761859 | Anaphora | the regular repetition of the same word of phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses | 13 | |
| 4819761860 | Epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses Opposite of anaphora | 14 | |
| 4819762572 | Polysyndenton | the use of many conjunctions to slow the pace | 15 | |
| 4819762573 | Alliteration | the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of successive words | 16 | |
| 4819762574 | Assonance | involves the repetition of sounds within words | 17 | |
| 4819763666 | Consonance | words at the ends of verses in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the words that precede them differ Sometimes called "half rhyme" | 18 | |
| 4819779423 | Periodic Sentence | The main idea of the sentence is at the end of the sentence | 19 | |
| 4819783292 | Loose Sentence | dependent clause it at the end of the sentence | 20 | |
| 4819787156 | Diction | the words the writer chooses to convey a particular meaning | 21 | |
| 4819790420 | Syntax | the way words are arranged within sentences | 22 | |
| 4819793024 | Paradox | a statement that appears to be contradictory but, in fact, has some truth | 23 | |
| 4819793025 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds enforce their meaning | 24 | |
| 4819794054 | Rhetorical Question | questions that do not require an answer 1. Asking the Reader- a way of taking counsel with the reader 2. Asking the Writer- addressed to the writer, suggests writer's thinking process 3. Criticizing- making criticism in the form of a question 4. Asking and Answering- asks and question and answers it | 25 | |
| 4819794055 | Apostrophe | "Turning away" "Turn away" from the audience to address someone or something new | 26 | |
| 4819795219 | Euphemism | substitute less pungent words for harsh ones, with ironic effect | 27 | |
| 4819812512 | Metaphor | an implied comparison between two unlike things | 28 | |
| 4819812513 | Simile | an explicit comparison between two unlike things signaled by the use of like or as | 29 | |
| 4819813393 | Personification | attributing human qualities to an inanimate object | 30 | |
| 4819813394 | Irony | the writer takes on another voice or role that states the opposite of what is expressed | 31 | |
| 4819813395 | Hyperbole | exaggeration; deliberate exaggeration for emphasis | 32 | |
| 4819814670 | Litotes | opposite of hyperbole intensifies an idea by understatement | 33 | |
| 4819816142 | Synecdoche | a part is substituted for the whole | 34 | |
| 4819816143 | Metonymy | designation of one thing with something closely associated with it | 35 | |
| 4819817387 | Oxymoron | contradiction two contradictory terms or ideas used together | 36 | |
| 4819817388 | Tone | writer's attitude or feeling about the subject of his text | 37 |
