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| 8227328357 | Antecedent | a literary device in which a word or pronoun in a line or sentence refers to an earlier word. | 0 | |
| 8227328358 | Periodic Sentence | the main clause or predicate at the end. | 1 | |
| 8227331548 | Cumulative Sentence | an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea. Contrast with periodic sentence. | 2 | |
| 8227331549 | Simple Sentence | sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate. | 3 | |
| 8227335457 | Compound Sentence | A compound sentence is a sentence that has at least two independent clauses joined by a comma, semicolon or conjunction. | 4 | |
| 8227340175 | Declarative Sentence | states a fact | 5 | |
| 8227340176 | Exclamatory Sentence | a type of main clause that expresses strong feelings by making an exclamation. | 6 | |
| 8227342833 | Interrogative Sentence | a type of sentence that asks a question. | 7 | |
| 8227343192 | Ellipses | a literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event, which gives the reader a chance to fill the gaps while acting or reading it out. It is usually written between the sentences as "...". | 8 | |
| 8227345630 | Active Voice | the subject is doing the acting, as in the sentence "Kevin hit the ball." Kevin (the subject of the sentence) acts in relation to the ball. | 9 | |
| 8227345631 | Passive Voice | the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb. For example, in "The ball was thrown by the pitcher," the ball (the subject) receives the action of the verb, and was thrown | 10 | |
| 8227348817 | Inverted Word Order | "Yoda talk" | 11 | |
| 8227348818 | Appositive | a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. | 12 | |
| 8227350848 | Parenthesis | an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage. | 13 | |
| 8227350849 | Polysyndeton | a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed. | 14 | |
| 8227353268 | Asyndeton | a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases, and in the sentence, yet maintain grammatical accuracy. | 15 | |
| 8227367772 | Anaphora | the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech. | 16 |
