Chapter 2
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| 201182762 | Alliteration | Repetition of same beginning sound | |
| 201182763 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art | |
| 201182764 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | |
| 201182765 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | |
| 201182766 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction | |
| 201191615 | Archaic Diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | |
| 201191616 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | |
| 201191617 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on | |
| 201191618 | Hortative Sentence | Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action | |
| 201191619 | Imperative Sentence | Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat | |
| 201191620 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | |
| 201191621 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | |
| 201191622 | Metaphor | Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison | |
| 201191623 | Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the whole | |
| 201191624 | Oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | |
| 201191625 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | |
| 201191626 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | |
| 201191627 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | |
| 201191628 | Rhetorical Question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | |
| 201191629 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but produccing different, often incongruous, meanings |
