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| 7168504853 | simple sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and no dependent clause. | 0 | |
| 7168506475 | compound sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses. | 1 | |
| 7168507155 | complex sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. | 2 | |
| 7168508905 | compound-complex sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. | 3 | |
| 7168510312 | loose sentence | A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement. | 4 | |
| 7168511519 | periodic sentence | A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/or complement. | 5 | |
| 7168513136 | synecdoche | A part of something used to refer to the whole—for example, "50 heads of cattle" referring to 50 complete animals. | 6 | |
| 7168517920 | metonymy | An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations—for example, "The admissions office claims applications have risen." | 7 | |
| 7168519857 | parallelism | A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph. | 8 | |
| 7168521832 | diction | Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/connotative value. | 9 | |
| 7168573844 | Latinate diction | Vocabulary characterized by the choice of elaborate, often complicated words derived from Latin roots. | 10 | |
| 7168575205 | Anglo-Saxon diction | Word choice characterized by simple, often one- or two-syllable nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. | 11 | |
| 7168526383 | slang | Informal language, often considered inappropriate for formal occasions and text. | 12 | |
| 7168530244 | dialect | The describable patterns of language—grammar and vocabulary—used by a particular cultural or ethnic population. | 13 | |
| 7168531273 | personification | The giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects. | 14 | |
| 7168532515 | periphrasis | The substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality characteristic. For example, "Pete Rose—better known as 'Charlie Hustle'—admitted his gambling problem" or "That young pop singer thinks she's a real Madonna, doesn't she?" | 15 | |
| 7168545721 | denotation | The dictionary definition of a word, in contrast to its connotation, or implied meaning. | 16 | |
| 7168548353 | connotation | The implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed "dictionary meaning." | 17 | |
| 7168551173 | scheme | An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences. | 18 | |
| 7168553638 | trope | An artful variation from expressed modes of expression of thoughts and ideas. | 19 | |
| 7168557075 | parallelism of words | A set of similarly structured words that appears in a sentence or paragraph. | 20 | |
| 7168557681 | parallelism of phrases | A set of similarly structured phrases that appears in a sentence or paragraph. | 21 | |
| 7168557996 | pun | A play on words. | 22 | |
| 7168566921 | anthimeria | One part of speech—for example, a noun—substituting for another—for example, a verb. | 23 | |
| 7168577167 | parallelism of clauses | A set of similarly structured clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph. | 24 | |
| 7168600320 | antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure—for example, "Place your virtues on a pedestal; put your vices under a rock." | 25 | |
| 7168602379 | antithesis of words | A juxtaposition of contrasting words, often in parallel structure. | 26 | |
| 7168603147 | antithesis of phrases | A juxtaposition of contrasting phrases, often in parallel structure. | 27 | |
| 7168603429 | antithesis of clauses | A juxtaposition of contrasting clauses, often in parallel structure. | 28 | |
| 7168604412 | antimetabole | The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 29 | |
| 7168608820 | onomatopoeia | A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning—for example, "buzz" and "moan". | 30 | |
| 7168610819 | hyperbole | an exaggeration for effect. | 31 | |
| 7168611548 | parenthesis | An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence. | 32 | |
| 7168613437 | appositive | A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately and defines or amplifies its meaning. | 33 | |
| 7168614863 | ellipsis | The omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of the passage. | 34 | |
| 7168616512 | asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between related clauses—for example, "I came, I saw, I conquered." | 35 | |
| 7168619598 | alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words. | 36 | |
| 7168621034 | assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words. | 37 | |
| 7168622821 | litotes | Understatement—for example, "Her performance ran the gamut from A to B." | 38 | |
| 7168624753 | Irony | Writing or speaking that implies the opposite the contrary of what is actually written or spoken. | 39 | |
| 7168626577 | anaphora | The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 40 | |
| 7168627981 | epistrophe | The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses—for example, "They saw no evil, they spoke no evil, and they heard no evil." | 41 | |
| 7168630556 | anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. | 42 | |
| 7168631604 | climax | The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing number or importance. | 43 | |
| 7168632528 | simile | A type of comparison that uses the words like or as. | 44 | |
| 7168634707 | metaphor | An implied comparison that does not use the words like or as—for example, "His voice was a cascade of emotion"; the most important of the tropes. | 45 | |
| 7168636747 | oxymoron | Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings—for example, "jumbo shrimp." | 46 | |
| 7168638026 | rhetorical question | A question posed by a speaker or writer not to seek an answer but instead to affirm or deny a point simply by asking a question about it. | 47 |
