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11025290808Alliterationthe occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.0
11025292531AllusionA reference to another work of literature, person, or event1
11025296982Anaphorathe repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines2
11025302000AntimetaboleRepetition of words in reverse order3
11025303929Antithesisopposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction4
11025307353Archaic dictionOld-fashioned or outdated choice of words.5
11025313327Asyndetonomission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words6
11025318635Cumulative sentencesentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on7
11025322093Hortative sentencesentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action8
11025325111Imperative sentencesentence used to command or enjoin9
11025327499Inversioninverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)10
11025330048JuxtapositionPlacement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts11
11025333061Metaphorfigure of speech that compares two things without using like or as12
11025337268Oxymoronparadoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another13
11025339105Parallelismsimilarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses14
11025344247Periodic sentencesentence whose main clause is withheld until the end15
11025346233Personificationattribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea16
11025348300Rhetorical questionfigure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer17
11025351011Synecdochea figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole18
11025356020Zeugmause of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings19

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