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| 6468395232 | litotes | A way of saying something by saying what it's not. Examples: He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. She's no Einstein. | 0 | |
| 6468411980 | Pleonasm | Using more words than you need to, either accidentally or deliberately. Examples: Look at that tiny little baby kitten. | 1 | |
| 6468428614 | Allusion | A quick reference to something that your audience will have to already know in order to "get." They should be quickly mentioned, not explained in-depth. Examples: A famous work of art or literature Something from your own life | 2 | |
| 6468449015 | Analogy | Comparing two things for the purpose of explanation. Examples: "Life is like a box of chocolates." A is to B as C is to D. Earth's forests are like its lungs. | 3 | |
| 6468470193 | Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses. Examples: "I have a dream" repeated in MLK speech "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was..." | 4 | |
| 6468491256 | Eponym | Either a person for whom something is named, or a thing named for a person. Examples: Achilles (Greek mythological character) - Achilles' heel, Achilles tendon Adam (Biblical character) - Adam's apple | 5 | |
| 6468519421 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which you use a part of something to stand for the whole thing. Example: "new set of wheels" = you're using the wheels, which are part of a car, to refer to the whole car. | 6 | |
| 6468543563 | Apostrophe | A punctuation mark used in contractions to replace missing letters. Examples: We'll = We will That's = That is | 7 | |
| 6468558476 | Rhetorical | If you ask a rhetorical question, it means you don't necessarily expect an answer, but you do want an occasion to talk about something. Rhetoric is the art of written or spoken communication. | 8 | |
| 6468571534 | Epithet | A descriptive nickname Example" "Richard the Lionhearted" "Tommy the Terrible." | 9 |
