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| 5023008088 | parody | A work that closely imitates the styles or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. It distorts or exaggerates distinctive features of the original. | 0 | |
| 5023023970 | pedantic | An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. | 1 | |
| 5023028214 | periodic sentence | Presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. The independent clause is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone. | 2 | |
| 5023039756 | personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 3 | |
| 5023047982 | point of view | The perspective in which a story is told. There are two general divisions and many subdivisions within those. | 4 | |
| 5023056820 | prose | One of the major divisions of genre, it refers to fiction & nonfiction, including all its forms. | 5 | |
| 5023074635 | repetition | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. | 6 | |
| 5023082536 | rhetoric | From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 7 | |
| 5023090379 | rhetorical modes | This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing. The four most common are exposition, persuasive, description, and narrative. | 8 | |
| 5023110944 | sarcasm | From the Greek meaning "to tear flesh", it involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something. It many use irony as a device. | 9 |
