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| 11337973662 | convention | a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude | 0 | |
| 11338036102 | concrete diction | words that describe specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities | 1 | |
| 11338058033 | formal diction | language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal | 2 | |
| 11338065583 | colloquial​ ​diction | conversational, informal refer to types of speech or to usages not on a formal level. | 3 | |
| 11338116571 | Denotation | dictionary definition | 4 | |
| 11338121470 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 5 | |
| 11338124696 | Tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | 6 | |
| 11338139974 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 7 | |
| 11338147733 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create a complete sentence | 8 | |
| 11338158892 | parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 9 | |
| 11338173675 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind | 10 | |
| 11338184336 | Asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 11 | |
| 11338191759 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 12 |