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| 5389755316 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 0 | |
| 5389757579 | Phrase | two or more words that do not contain the subject-verb pair | 1 | |
| 5389762348 | Clause | Every clause has at least a subject and a verb. | 2 | |
| 5389793664 | Subordinate Clauses | Subordinate conjunction + subject + verb =incomplete thought. | 3 | |
| 5389837561 | Balanced Sentence | A sentence made up of two parts that are roughly equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure: a paired construction | 4 | |
| 5389844050 | Antithesis | A balanced sentence that makes a contrast | 5 | |
| 5389849742 | Loose or 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 | 6 | |
| 5389887175 | Periodic Sentences | A periodic sentence delays its main idea until the end by presenting modifiers or subordinate ideas first, thus holding the readers' interest until the end." A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word--usually with an emphatic climax. | 7 | |
| 5389889161 | Running Style | a sentence style that appears to follow the mind as it worries a problem through, mimicking the "rambling, associative syntax of conversation" | 8 | |
| 5389931992 | Interrupted Sentence | An interrupted sentence is when a modifier is placed between the subject and the verb, or between the verb and the direct object, interrupting the idea of the main independent clause | 9 | |
| 5389931993 | Horative Sentence | A sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action | 10 | |
| 5389940797 | Absolute Phrase | made up of a noun and its modifiers | 11 | |
| 5389943926 | Appositive | a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words. | 12 | |
| 5389947531 | Parenthesis | The insertion of some verbal unit that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence. Parenthetical remarks may also be set off by dashes. | 13 | |
| 5389973035 | Telegraphic Sentence | A sentence with less than five words. | 14 | |
| 5389977105 | Isocolon | A succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. | 15 | |
| 5390004217 | Tricolon | a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses | 16 | |
| 5390007991 | Epanalepsis | Repetition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word or phrase with which it began | 17 | |
| 5390019425 | Chiasmus | It reverses the order of modifiers, or simply sentence structure in two connected, called parallel, clauses. | 18 | |
| 5390027798 | Anastrophe | Departure from normal word order for the sake of emphasis | 19 | |
| 5390031996 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or phrase at the start of successive clauses. | 20 | |
| 5390035898 | Circumlocution | The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language to avoid getting to the point. | 21 | |
| 5390042893 | Ellipsis | The commonly used series of three dots, which can be place at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a sentence or clause linguistically appropriate omission of words that are mutually understood and thus unnecessary. | 22 | |
| 5390051836 | Epiphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses | 23 | |
| 5390075591 | Juxtaposed | Which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. A useful device for writers to portray their characters in great detail to create suspense and achieve a rhetorical effect | 24 |
