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| 8130933603 | Sarcasm | harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony | 0 | |
| 8130933874 | Simile | a figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities; for example, "The sky looked like an artist's canvas." | 1 | |
| 8130934167 | Symbolism | the use of symbols or anything that is meant to be taken both literally and as representative of a higher and more complex significance | 2 | |
| 8130934884 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean a stage or "wheels" to mean a car - or "All hands on deck." | 3 | |
| 8130935115 | Syntactic Fluency | Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length. | 4 | |
| 8130935455 | Syntactic Permutation | Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. They are often difficult for a reader to follow. | 5 | |
| 8130936082 | Syntax | the grammatical structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence. It includes length of sentence, kinds of sentences (questions, exclamations, declarative sentences, rhetorical questions, simple, complex, or compound). | 6 | |
| 8130936443 | Tone | the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience (anger, sarcastic, loving, didactic, emotional, etc.) | 7 | |
| 8130936831 | Tricolon | Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. | 8 | |
| 8130937277 | Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 9 | |
| 8130937917 | Zeugma | a grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated. Often used to comic effect, "The thief took my wallet and the Fifth Avenue bus." | 10 |
