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| 4850944189 | Antithesis | The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite | 0 | |
| 4850944190 | Allegory | Using Character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstract in addition to the literal meaning | 1 | |
| 4850944191 | Apostrophe | Directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction | 2 | |
| 4850944192 | Colloquial/ Colloquialism | Use of slang or informalities in speech or writing | 3 | |
| 4850944193 | Homily | "Sermon" but can include serious talk speech or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 4 | |
| 4850944194 | Metonymy | The name of one object is substituted for that of one closely associated with it | 5 | |
| 4850944195 | Parallelism | Grammatical or rhetorical framing of words or phrases sentences or paragraphs to give structuralism | 6 | |
| 4850944196 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but on closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity | 7 | |
| 4913706842 | Pedantic | An adjective that describes words phrases or general tone that is scholarly | 8 | |
| 4913706843 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. This independent clause is preceded by a phrase and cannot stand alone | 9 | |
| 4913706844 | Prose | One of the major divisions of genre refers to fiction and nonfiction | 10 | |
| 4913706845 | Rhetoric | Principles governing the art of writing effectively eloquently and persuasively | 11 | |
| 4913706846 | Rhetorical Modes | This flexible term discerned the variety the conventions and the major kinds of writing | 12 | |
| 4913706847 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule | 13 | |
| 4913706848 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words their historical and psychological development their connotations as their relation to one another | 14 | |
| 4913706849 | Subject Completement | The word (with any accompanying phrases) or clause that follows a linking verb and complements or completes the subject of the sentence by either renaming it or describe it | 15 | |
| 4913706850 | Subordinate Clause | A clause that cannot stand alone | 16 | |
| 4913706851 | Syllogism | Deductive system of formal logic that presents 2 premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion | 17 | |
| 4913706852 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or occasionally the whole is used to represent the part | 18 | |
| 4913706853 | Synesthesia | When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another | 19 | |
| 4913706854 | Syntax | The way the author chooses to join words into phrases sentences and clauses | 20 | |
| 4913706855 | Tone | Describes the author's attitude toward his material audience or both | 21 | |
| 4913706856 | Transition | A word or phrase that links different ideas | 22 | |
| 4913706857 | Understatement | Ironic minimizing of fact presents something less significant than it is | 23 |
