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| 15490201145 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end. | 0 | |
| 15490218683 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. | 1 | |
| 15490238196 | Rhetorical Question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. | 2 | |
| 15490261413 | Synedoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. | 3 | |
| 15490275315 | Catalogue | A list of things to create a rhetorical effect. | 4 | |
| 15490284020 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration used for effect or for humor. | 5 | |
| 15490315664 | Onomatopoeia | Words which suggest or sound like their meanings. | 6 | |
| 15490324025 | Paradox | A statement which seems contradictory but is actually true. | 7 | |
| 15490356804 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. | 8 | |
| 15490373829 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. | 9 | |
| 15490396353 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. | 10 | |
| 15490420045 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. | 11 | |
| 15490433172 | Archaic Diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. | 12 | |
| 15490447085 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. | 13 | |
| 15490471120 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on. | 14 | |
| 15490487585 | Imperative Sentence | Sentence used to command or enjoin. | 15 | |
| 15490493969 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order). | 16 |
