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| 5700970288 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 0 | |
| 5700970289 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 1 | |
| 5700970290 | Declarative Sentence | A sentence in the form of a statement | 2 | |
| 5700970291 | Telegraphic Sentence | A concise sentence typically containing five words or less. | 3 | |
| 5700970292 | Short Sentence | A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate. | 4 | |
| 5700970293 | Medium Sentence | A sentence consisting of fifteen and twenty words | 5 | |
| 5700970294 | Simple Sentence | A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate. | 6 | |
| 5700970295 | Compound Sentence | A sentence with more than one subject or predicate. | 7 | |
| 5700970296 | Complex Sentence | A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses. | 8 | |
| 5700970297 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that has the main clause or predicate at the end. | 9 | |
| 5700970298 | Loose Sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. | 10 | |
| 5700970299 | Parallelism | The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 11 | |
| 5700970300 | Denotative meaning | The literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition." | 12 | |
| 5700970301 | Connotative Meaning | The emotions and associations connected to a word | 13 | |
| 5700970325 | Antithesis | A contrast or opposition between two things. | 14 | |
| 5700970304 | Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 15 | |
| 5700970305 | Synedoche | A part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 16 | |
| 5700970306 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 17 | |
| 5700970307 | Oxymoron | Apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 18 | |
| 5700970308 | Simile | The comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | 19 | |
| 5700970309 | Metaphor | A word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 20 | |
| 5700970310 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 21 | |
| 5700970311 | Asyndeton | The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 22 | |
| 5700970312 | Epestrophe | The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 23 | |
| 5700970313 | Antimetable | A phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order. | 24 | |
| 5700970314 | Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 25 | |
| 5700970315 | Assonance | The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | 26 | |
| 5700970316 | Constonent | Denoting or relating to a consonant sound or letter. | 27 | |
| 5700970317 | Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 28 | |
| 5700970318 | Metanymy | The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 29 | |
| 5700970319 | Rhetorical Sentence | A question that you ask without expecting an answer. | 30 | |
| 5700970320 | Anaphra | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 31 | |
| 5700970321 | Allusion | An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 32 | |
| 5700970322 | Paradox | An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). | 33 | |
| 5700970323 | Parody | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 34 | |
| 5700970324 | Paradox | Joining of opposite meanings | 35 |
