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| 86521318 | alliteration | repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence | |
| 86521319 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art | |
| 86521320 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | |
| 86521321 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | |
| 86521322 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel constriction | |
| 86521323 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | |
| 86521324 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | |
| 86521325 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on | |
| 86521326 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action | |
| 86521327 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat | |
| 86521328 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | |
| 86521329 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | |
| 86521330 | metaphor | figure of speech that says one thing is another to explain by comparison | |
| 86521331 | metonymy | using a single feature to represent the whole | |
| 86521332 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | |
| 86521333 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series related words, phrases, or clauses | |
| 86521334 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | |
| 86521335 | personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | |
| 86521336 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather that for the purpose of getting an answer | |
| 86521337 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings |
