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| 8295612477 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 0 | |
| 8295612478 | Appositive | A noun or noun substitute placed next to (in apposition to) another noun to be described or defined by the appositive. It can be placed before or after the noun. | 1 | |
| 8295612479 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 2 | |
| 8295612480 | Cleft Sentence | A sentence formed by a main clause and a subordinate clause, which together express a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence. | 3 | |
| 8295612481 | Compound Sentence | Contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction or by a semicolon. | 4 | |
| 8295612482 | Compound-Complex Sentence | Contains two or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. | 5 | |
| 8295612483 | Complex Sentence | Contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. | 6 | |
| 8295612484 | Cumulative/Loose/Non-Periodic Sentence | Begins with the independent clause and then finishes with a flurry of modifying constructions. | 7 | |
| 8295612485 | Declarative/Assertive Sentence | A sentence that makes a statement. | 8 | |
| 8295612486 | Epistrophe | The repetition of the same word or words say the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. | 9 | |
| 8295612487 | Exclamatory Sentence | Makes an announcement or states something with power. | 10 | |
| 8295612488 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence that gives a command. | 11 | |
| 8295612489 | Interrogative Sentence | A question. | 12 | |
| 8295612490 | Inverted Sentence | Reversing the customary order of elements in a sentence. | 13 | |
| 8295612491 | Parenthesis | Consists of a word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence. It is used to address the reader momentarily. | 14 | |
| 8295612492 | Prepositional Phrase | Begins with a prepositional and ends with a noun, pronoun, gerund, or clause. | 15 | |
| 8295612493 | Sentence Structure | The grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence. | 16 | |
| 8295612494 | Simple Sentence | Contains one subject and one verb. | 17 | |
| 8295612495 | Subordinate Clause | Like all clauses, this word group contains both a subject and a verb, but unlike the independent clause, this cannot stand alone. It does not express a complete thought. | 18 | |
| 8295612496 | Syntactic Fluency | The ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length. | 19 | |
| 8295612497 | Syntactic Permutation | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved; Often difficult for a reader to follow. | 20 | |
| 8295612498 | Transition | A word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph. | 21 | |
| 8295612499 | Tricolon | A sentence consisting of three parts of equal important and length, usually three independent clauses. | 22 | |
| 8295612500 | Abstract Language | Refers to the language that describes concepts rather than concrete images. | 23 | |
| 8295612501 | Ambiguity | Vagueness or haziness; Sometimes used in poetry or prose to create an aura or atmosphere, or to hint at an idea for dramatic effect. | 24 | |
| 8295612502 | Archaic Diction | Phrasing that is no longer used; Idioms and discarded vernacular or colloquialisms. | 25 | |
| 8295612503 | Atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. | 26 | |
| 8295612504 | Topic Sentence | Usually the first sentence of a paragraph that gives the reader an idea of what the paragraph is going to be about. | 27 | |
| 8295612505 | Amplification | Involves repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it. | 28 | |
| 8295612506 | Arrangement | The organization of a piece of writing. | 29 |
