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| 5950923500 | Expletive | noun, a profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger |  | 0 |
| 5950923501 | Asyndeton | noun, the omission of conjunctions like "and" or "but" where they would normally be used to make a speech more dramatic and effective by speeding up its rhythm and pace. This is a rhetorical device. |  | 1 |
| 5950923502 | Polysyndeton | noun, using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy'), a rhetorical device opposite to asyndeton. |  | 2 |
| 5950923503 | Understatement | noun, a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said. |  | 3 |
| 5950923505 | Parallelism | noun, similarity by virtue of corresponding. used in sentence construction to give matching structure. In the sentence, "I like to read, dancing, and fighting off Zombie attacks," the parts of the list are not parallel. |  | 4 |
| 5950923506 | Chiasmus | noun, inversion in the second of two parallel phrases, a rhetorical technique that involves a reversal of terms, such as "It's good to be lucky, but it's lucky to be good." |  | 5 |
| 5950923508 | Antithesis | noun, exact opposite, wouldn't exist without a thesis because it works as a comparison. |  | 6 |
| 5950923509 | Anaphora | noun, repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Used to show emphasis in speech or writing, anaphora is a popular tool for politicians, religious leaders, lyricists, and poets.In Martin Luther King Jr's most famous speech, he said "I have a dream" eight different times. |  | 7 |
| 5950923510 | Epistrophe | noun, repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. Similar to Anaphora but at the end of sentences |  | 8 |
| 5950923515 | Rhetorical Question | asked just for effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected. It have an obvious answer but the questioner asks these to lay emphasis to the point. |  | 9 |
| 5950923524 | Simile | noun, a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as'). |  | 10 |
| 5950923525 | Analogy | noun, drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect. you compare them for the purpose of explanation. The movie character Forest Gump made a silly one of these famous: "Life is like a box of chocolates." | 11 | |
| 5950923526 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable, used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. You make an analogy between two things to show how one resembles the other in some way. |  | 12 |
| 5950923528 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which you use a part of something to stand for the whole thing (or vice versa). If your parents buy you a car and you say that you just got a new set of wheels, you're using this — you're using the wheels, which are part of a car, to refer to the whole car. | 13 | |
| 5950923529 | Metonymy | It is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. Synecdoche refers to a thing by the name of one of its parts. In this figure of speech, on the other hand, the word we use to describe another thing is closely linked to that particular thing, but is not a part of it. | 14 | |
| 5950923530 | Personification | a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn't it so?, The wind whispered through dry grass, The flowers danced in the gentle breeze, Time and tide waits for none. |  | 15 |
| 5950923531 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. Praising your favorite sports team is one thing, but if you call the team the most incredible group of humans ever to walk the earth, then you're going overboard and indulging in this. |  | 16 |
| 5950923532 | Allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text. | 17 | |
| 5950923534 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. The common phrase is a combination of an adjective proceeded by a noun with contrasting meanings, e.g. "cruel kindness" or "living death". However, the contrasting words/phrases are not always glued together. The contrasting ideas may be spaced out in a sentence, e.g. "In order to lead, you must walk behind." |  | 18 |
| 5950923535 | Epithet | a descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are. Also, it is known as a by-name or descriptive title. |  | 19 |
| 5950923538 | Alliteration | A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. An important point to remember here is that it does not depend on letters but on sounds. So the phrase not knotty is alliterative, but cigarette chase is not. |  | 20 |
| 5950923539 | Onomatopoeia | A word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting. |  | 21 |
| 5950923540 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech sometimes represented by exclamation "O". A writer or a speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 22 | |
| 5950923544 | Antimetabole | a literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order. You like it; it likes you" and "Fair is foul and foul is fair." When a sentence is repeated after reversing it so as to convey an idea or stress on a point, it is called chiasmus. the words and grammatical structure is also reversed because just reversing the meaning is not enough. | | 23 |
