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| 7434001412 | Alliteration | The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. | 0 | |
| 7434015168 | Allusion | An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event. | 1 | |
| 7434020330 | Anaphora | The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses. | 2 | |
| 7434027153 | Annotation | Explanatory or critical notes added to a text. | 3 | |
| 7434030023 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast. | 4 | |
| 7434038753 | Antithesis | Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas. | 5 | |
| 7434046479 | Archaic Diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. | 6 | |
| 7434054369 | Asyndeton | Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses. | 7 | |
| 7434062364 | Colloquialisms | An informal or conversational use of language. | 8 | |
| 7434070942 | Complex Sentence | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. | 9 | |
| 7434079972 | Cumulative (loose) Sentence | An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail. | 10 | |
| 7434090715 | Declarative Sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 11 | |
| 7434105151 | Diction | Word choice. | 12 | |
| 7434110402 | Figures of Speech | An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning. | 13 | |
| 7434118351 | Hortative/Hortatory | Urging, or strongly encouraging. | 14 | |
| 7434125482 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis. | 15 | |
| 7434135093 | Imagery | Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing) | 16 | |
| 7434144938 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 17 | |
| 7434149361 | Inversion | A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject. | 18 | |
| 7434167727 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things side by side for emphasis. | 19 | |
| 7434176724 | Metaphor | A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison. | 20 | |
| 7434189790 | Metonymy (Synecdoche) | Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. | 21 | |
| 7434207441 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms. | 22 | |
| 7434217931 | Paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. | 23 | |
| 7434233652 | Parallelism/Parallel Structure | The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns. | 24 | |
| 7434238429 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause. | 25 | |
| 7434246546 | Personification (Anthropomorphism) | Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. | 26 | |
| 7434258874 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer. | 27 | |
| 7434270974 | Rhetoric | The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion." | 28 | |
| 7434284299 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 29 | |
| 7434291299 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things. | 30 | |
| 7434297209 | Style | The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech. | 31 | |
| 7434306068 | Syntax | Sentence structure. | 32 | |
| 7434313085 | Thesis | The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer. | 33 | |
| 7434322278 | Thesis Statement | A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit. | 34 | |
| 7434330385 | Tone | The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience. | 35 | |
| 7434334329 | Topic Sentence | A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis. | 36 | |
| 7434347383 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 37 | |
| 7434352990 | Zeugma | A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs-often in different, sometimes incongruent ways-two or more words in a sentence. | 38 | |
| 7434393792 | Syllepsis | A figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses. | 39 | |
| 7434432147 | Lightbulb! | The internal mechanism that lets you know that you have got the information! | 40 |
