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| 8153844107 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllable |  | 0 |
| 8153871921 | allusion | refers to a well known story, event, person, or object to make a comparison in the readers' minds. |  | 1 |
| 8153875133 | anaphora | repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech |  | 2 |
| 8153879234 | antimetabole | Repetition words in reverse order |  | 3 |
| 8153889675 | antithesis | opposition or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. |  | 4 |
| 8153903370 | archaic diction | old fashion or out-dated choice of words Example: the use of words that are old-fashioned or no longer commonly used. | 5 | |
| 8153910530 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or word |  | 6 |
| 8153949669 | inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object) Example: Came the dawn | 7 | |
| 8153920758 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and the builds and adds on. |  | 8 |
| 8153938254 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 9 | |
| 8153946803 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoy | 10 | |
| 8153951937 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 11 | |
| 8153953889 | metaphor | figure of speech comparing two different things without using like or as. | 12 | |
| 8153956004 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 13 | |
| 8153957890 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 14 | |
| 8153962817 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 15 | |
| 8153965493 | personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea | 16 | |
| 8153967378 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 17 | |
| 8153967509 | synedoche | Figure o speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 18 | |
| 8153970956 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different , often incongruous, meaning | 19 |
