| 6818214016 | Prepositional phrase | Preposition+(Optional modifier)+ noun, gerund, or clause. Ex. At home, in time, by singing, in the ugly garden | 0 | |
| 6818234335 | Gerund | Term derived from a verb that acts as a noun- ends in "ing". Ex. "Do you mind my asking of you?" | 1 | |
| 6818261541 | Antithesis | Figure of speech, contrasts two opposites through the parallelism of words. Ex. To err is human; to forgive, divine. | 2 | |
| 6818273528 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word/phrase at the start of successive clauses. | 3 | |
| 6818290968 | Allusion | Calls something to mind without stating it. | 4 | |
| 6818301886 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration of a claim not meant to be taken literally. | 5 | |
| 6818317855 | Imperative mood | Forms commands or requests. Ex. Please be quiet. | 6 | |
| 6818327044 | Citation format? | Parenthetical Letters (A), (B)!! | 7 | |
| 6818334923 | Rhetorical triangle | Author, audience, subject. Remember context of prompt | 8 | |
| 6818341078 | Tense? | Present! "Is" "writes" "kills" | 9 | |
| 6818362267 | Euphemism | Harmless word/phrase to replace an offensive one. Ex, passing way instead of died, ethnic cleansing instead of genocide. | 10 | |
| 6818369463 | Apostrophe | "O god, I'm dying," the apostrophe is used when addressing an imagined figure or impersonal subject: "O books, how you dazzle." | 11 | |
| 6818401272 | Simile vs Analogy | Similes are artistic/expressive, analogies are more explanatory. | 12 | |
| 6818413638 | Epistrophe/Antistrophe | The repetition of a word/phrase at the END of successive clauses. | 13 | |
| 6819168356 | Antimetabole/ Chiasmus | Repetition of words in reverse order. "Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country." | 14 | |
| 6819179199 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases/words. "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." | 15 | |
| 6819200187 | Cumulative sentence | Starts with a main point and then expand- often with a dash- to build on and support this point. | 16 | |
| 6819211834 | Hortative sentence | Calls to action or advises | 17 | |
| 6819221589 | Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the whole. "In your hands, my fellow citizens, rest the final success or failure of our course." | 18 | |
| 6819239460 | Zeugma | Use of two dif. words in a grammatically similar way but producing dif. meanings. Ex: call, as in "now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to arms - not as a call to battle - but a call to bear the burden." | 19 |
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