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| 14466750157 | Ethos | Ones credibility as a speaker and writer | 0 | |
| 14466750158 | Logos | The intellectual power of one's speech or writing | 1 | |
| 14466750159 | Pathos | The emotional power of one's speech or writing | 2 | |
| 14466750160 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 3 | |
| 14466750161 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 4 | |
| 14466750162 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 5 | |
| 14466750163 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 6 | |
| 14466750164 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 7 | |
| 14466750165 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 8 | |
| 14466750166 | Zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 9 | |
| 14466750167 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 10 | |
| 14466750168 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | 11 | |
| 14466750169 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 12 | |
| 14466750170 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 13 | |
| 14466750171 | Hypophora | raising a question then proceeding to answer it | 14 | |
| 14466750172 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 15 | |
| 14466750173 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 16 | |
| 14466750174 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 17 | |
| 14466750175 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 18 | |
| 14466750176 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 19 | |
| 14466750177 | Inverted Syntax | reversing the normal word order of a sentence | 20 | |
| 14466750178 | Ellipsis | three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation | 21 | |
| 14466750179 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 22 | |
| 14466750180 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 23 | |
| 14466750181 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 24 | |
| 14466750182 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 25 | |
| 14466750183 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 26 | |
| 14466750184 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 27 | |
| 14466750185 | Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause | 28 | |
| 14466750186 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 29 | |
| 14466750187 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 30 |
