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| 9788325600 | syntax | another way of talking about grammar and sentence structure | 0 | |
| 9788346442 | oxymoron | two contradictory words (or sometimes brief phrases) are paired together | 1 | |
| 9788362456 | paradox | two elements which cannot both be true at the same times (although usually each one could be true on its own) | 2 | |
| 9788379259 | rhetorical questions | question whose answer is obvious; these types of questions do not need to be answered | 3 | |
| 9788386486 | Bombast | language that is overly rhetorical | 4 | |
| 9788400254 | metonymy | one term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated | 5 | |
| 9788412615 | synecdoche | form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole | 6 | |
| 9788427695 | aphorism | concise, pithy statement of an opinion or a general truth | 7 | |
| 9788434711 | malapropism | unintentional use of a word that resembles the word intended but that has a very different meaning | 8 | |
| 9788444805 | circumlocution | "talking around a subject" | 9 | |
| 9788458631 | euphemism | word or words that are used to avoid employing an unpleasant or offensive term | 10 | |
| 9788478928 | verbal irony | opposite of what is stated | 11 | |
| 9788493601 | sarcasm | verbal irony used with the intent to injure | 12 | |
| 9788499675 | situational irony | the opposite of what you think would happen | 13 | |
| 9788517498 | satire | something is portrayed in a way that's deliberately distorted to achieve comic effect | 14 | |
| 9788534852 | lampoon | sharp ridicule of the behavior or character of a person or institution | 15 | |
| 9788549837 | caricature | a ludicrous exaggeration of the defects of persons or things | 16 |
