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| 4031693367 | Appositive | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. | 0 | |
| 4031693368 | Antecedent | The noun to which a later pronoun refers. | 1 | |
| 4031694658 | Cumulative sentence | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 2 | |
| 4031694659 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 3 | |
| 4031694660 | Elegiac | Mournful over what has passed or been lost; often used to describe tone. | 4 | |
| 4031696129 | Hortatory | encouraging or urging to some course of action; giving earnest counsel or advice. | 5 | |
| 4031696130 | Pacing | the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another | 6 | |
| 4031696131 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 7 | |
| 4031696132 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 8 | |
| 4031697337 | Parody | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. | 9 | |
| 4031697338 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 10 | |
| 4031697339 | Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 11 | |
| 4031699032 | Sentence Variety | Using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect. | 12 | |
| 4031699033 | Style | A basic and distinctive mode of expression. | 13 | |
| 4031699034 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. | 14 | |
| 4031699035 | Zeugma | A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning. | 15 |
