5154017978 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses | 0 | |
5154017979 | Isocolon | A succession of phrases in equal length and corresponding structure | 1 | |
5154017980 | Climax | Mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight in parallel construction with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of series or events or of an experience | 2 | |
5154017981 | Anithesis | Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases | 3 | |
5154017982 | Juxtaposition | An act of positioning close together | 4 | |
5154017983 | Paradox | A statement that appears to contradict itself | 5 | |
5154017984 | Oxymoron | The yoking of two t take that are ordinarily contradictory | 6 | |
5154017985 | Segue | To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, m comfortable took, situation, or element to another | 7 | |
5154017986 | Ellipsis | Omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader | 8 | |
5154017987 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses | 9 | |
5154017988 | Apposition | Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first | 10 | |
5154017989 | Parenthesis | Insertion of some verbal unit in a position they interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence | 11 | |
5154017990 | Polysyndeton | Style that employs a great many conjunctions | 12 | |
5154017991 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of the successive clauses or verses | 13 | |
5154017992 | Epistrophe | Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses | 14 | |
5154017993 | Analogy | Comparison between two things | 15 | |
5154017994 | Personification | Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities | 16 | |
5154017995 | Allusion | An instance of indirect reference | 17 | |
5154017996 | Pun | A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words | 18 | |
5154017997 | Euphemism | Substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit | 19 | |
5154074841 | Metonymy | Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is meant | 20 | |
5154074842 | Periphrasis | To talk around something | 21 | |
5154074843 | Apostrophe | Talking to something that can not talk back to you | 22 | |
5154074844 | Motif | A recurrent thematic element in an artistic of literary work | 23 | |
5154074845 | Archetype | The original model of which all other similar persons, objects or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned or emulated | 24 |
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