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6685055091apprehensiveanxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen0
6685078132placid(of a person or animal) not easily upset or excited1
6685078133iratefeeling or characterized by great anger2
6685081114balanced sentencesa sentence that has two clauses ex: Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun.3
6685081115loose sentencesA loose sentence (also called a cumulative sentence) is a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases ex: She drove her car to go to the movies, and got gas4
6685083153periodic sentencesa stylistic device employed at the sentence level, described as one that is not complete grammatically or semantically before the final clause or phrase. ex: To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.5
6685083154concrete detailsidentifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter.6
6685085596gustatory imageryThe definition of gustatory imagery is words or pictures that make someone think of food or taste. An example of gustatory imagery is a picture of a chocolate cake making someone imagine what the cake tastes like.7
6685085597compound sentencestwo independent sentences put together with FANBOYS8
6685085598complex sentencesone independent one dependent clause9
6685088590compound-complex sentencesA sentence consisting of at least one dependent clauses and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.10
6685088591anastropheAnastrophe is a figure of speech in which the syntactically correct order of subject, verb and object is changed. ex: potatoes, I like.11
6685088592epistropheindicates the same word returns at the end of each sentence.12
6685091671onomatopoeiaa word that sounds like what it represents13
6685091672metonymythe substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.14
6685289701anaphoraAnaphora is the opposite of epistrophe and means the repetition of the same phrase or word at the beginning of successive sentences such as in this example15

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