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| 5259274270 | pacing | tempo, rhythm, fluency of a piece that establishes the rate of development of points |  | 0 |
| 5259286279 | parable | short, simple story with moral lesson that is directly stated |  | 1 |
| 5259289501 | paradox | on the surface a statement that appears false, but is truthful in some way |  | 2 |
| 5259297087 | parallelism | rhetorical and grammatical term--equally important ideas presented in similar sentence construction--like verbal echoes |  | 3 |
| 5259304834 | parody | work that ridicules a serious piece of writing or a particular writer's style in a flippant or inappropriate manner |  | 4 |
| 5259318088 | pedantic | style in which one is a show-off or obsessed with minutia |  | 5 |
| 5259325517 | periodic sentence | opposite of loose sentence--the important idea is delayed until the completion of the sentence |  | 6 |
| 5259335181 | personification | figure of speech in which objects or ideas are given human qualities |  | 7 |
| 5259338718 | persuasion | writing to convince an audience of an opinion or to do an action--requires logic and proof |  | 8 |
| 5259345545 | point of view | the vantage point from which the narrator relates the events of the narrative (first person, omniscient, etc.) |  | 9 |
| 5259354344 | predicate adjective | an adjective found only after a linking verb--always modifies the subject--found in predicate part of the sentence |  | 10 |
| 5259368871 | predicate nominative | a noun or pronoun (nominative=name) found only after a linking verb--found in predicate part of the sentence |  | 11 |
| 5259379213 | prose | language that is not poetry in form--sentences and paragraphs--used in novels, short stories, essays, etc. |  | 12 |
| 5259389896 | purpose | the author's planned subject to be discussed or end to be achieved |  | 13 |
| 5259393946 | reading | taking in the sense of a work, both literally and figuratively, to allow analysis |  | 14 |
| 5259400006 | reliability | narrator's quality of being trustworthy |  | 15 |
