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| 6807756916 | allegory | Extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text. | 0 | |
| 6807763934 | anaphora | The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. | 1 | |
| 6807769501 | antecedent | The noun or noun phrase referred to by a pronoun. | 2 | |
| 6807773096 | antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. | 3 | |
| 6807787546 | deduction | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. | 4 | |
| 6807792572 | epiphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses. | 5 | |
| 6807799523 | induction | A method of reasoning by which a rhetor collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that is meant to apply to all instances. | 6 | |
| 6807810321 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). | 7 | |
| 6807823960 | syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 8 | |
| 6807829190 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part | 9 | |
| 6807839873 | assonance | Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. | 10 | |
| 6807842540 | chiasmus | A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. | 11 | |
| 6807876612 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person or object | 12 | |
| 6807883936 | elegy | a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person. | 13 |
