| A | B |
| connotation | The implication of such ideas or feelings. |
| denotation | The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. |
| motif | A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition. |
| syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. |
| soliloquy | An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play. |
| absolute phrase | A phrase that, instead of modifying a particular word, acts like an adverb to the rest of the sentence in which it appears:. |
| adjective phrase | An adjectival phrase or adjective phrase is a group of words in a sentence with an adjective which describes the noun.. |
| adverb clause | An adverbial clause is a clause that functions as an adverb. In other words, it contains subject (explicit or implied) and predicate,... |
| adverb phrase | An adverbial, or adverbial phrase (AdvP) is a linguistic term for a group of two or more words operating adverbially, when viewed in. |
| dependent clause | subordinate clause: a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence... |
| independent clause | main clause: a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence. |
| noun clause | A dependent clause (also embedded clause, subordinate clause) cannot stand alone as a sentence. A dependent clause is usually attached... |
| noun phrase | word or group of words that functions in a sentence as subject, object, or prepositional objec |
| participial phrase | In linguistics, a participle (adjective participial, from Latin participium, a calque of Greek μετοχή "partaking") can... |