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| 14787615430 | Colloquialism | A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing | 0 | |
| 14787631582 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | 1 | |
| 14787633638 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 2 | |
| 14787637641 | Trope | Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 3 | |
| 14787645417 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect. | 4 | |
| 14787647339 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 5 | |
| 14787651414 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 6 | |
| 14787657983 | Periodic Sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 7 | |
| 14787660380 | Cumulative Sentence | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 8 | |
| 14787677210 | Declarative Sentence | a sentence that makes a statement | 9 | |
| 14787683310 | Interrogative Sentence | A sentence that asks a question | 10 | |
| 14787685945 | Exclamatory Sentence | a sentence expressing strong feeling | 11 | |
| 14787687898 | Conditional Sentence | A sentence that expresses wishes or conditions contrary to fact. | 12 | |
| 14787689973 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. | 13 | |
| 14787704510 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 14 | |
| 14787708572 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 15 |
