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| 4832575354 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence | 0 | |
| 4832577916 | allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real, or fictitious, or to a work of art | 1 | |
| 4832579668 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
| 4832581582 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 3 | |
| 4832582644 | antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction | 4 | |
| 4832584514 | archaic diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 5 | |
| 4832585754 | asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 6 | |
| 4832587853 | cumulative sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on | 7 | |
| 4832588957 | hortative sentence | Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action | 8 | |
| 4832592169 | imperative sentence | Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat | 9 | |
| 4832593013 | inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence | 10 | |
| 4832593874 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 11 | |
| 4832595120 | metaphor | Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison | 12 | |
| 4832596207 | metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the whole | 13 | |
| 4832596749 | oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 14 | |
| 4832597907 | parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 15 | |
| 4832599214 | periodic sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 16 | |
| 4832599895 | personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | 17 | |
| 4832601708 | rhetorical question | Figure of speech in the foreman a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 18 | |
| 4832602976 | zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings | 19 |
