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| 4800951237 | Metaphor | A figure of speech makes a comparison between two unlike things. An implied comparison. | 0 | |
| 4800956223 | Simile | Expresses comparison using like or as. | 1 | |
| 4800960156 | Allusion | A reference to an historical or literary person, place, or event. | 2 | |
| 4800965634 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration for effect. | 3 | |
| 4801019934 | Onomatopoeia | Using words to imitate sounds. | 4 | |
| 4801020854 | Oxymoron | Words that contradict each other. | 5 | |
| 4801023086 | Paradox | A statement that seems to be contradictory but is true. *I laughed until I cried* | 6 | |
| 4801027367 | Personification | Giving human qualities to inanimate objects. | 7 | |
| 4801035157 | Symbol | An object stands for an abstract idea. | 8 | |
| 4801036231 | Alliteration | Reputation of initial consonant sounds. | 9 | |
| 4801040877 | Consonance | Like alliteration but in the middle or ending of the words. | 10 | |
| 4801075470 | Assonance | The repetition of a vowel sound within words. Used to give musical quality. | 11 | |
| 4802932146 | Synesthesia | The description of one kind of sense in terms of another. "Her blouse was a cool green* | 12 | |
| 4802936869 | Syntax | Grammatical rules governing word order. *It's rather a mystery* | 13 | |
| 4802940003 | Imagery | May not be a mental "pictures" but may appeal to senses other than sight. | 14 | |
| 4802944017 | Diction | Word choice used in a literary work. | 15 | |
| 4802945300 | Tone | Term usually designating the mood or atmosphere of a work. | 16 | |
| 4802948746 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something closely associated with it. * The bottle for beer* | 17 | |
| 4802953269 | Synecdoche | A special kind of metonymy in which something is referred to indirectly by naming some part of it. | 18 | |
| 4802956124 | Litotes | An affirmation made indirectly by denying its opposite usually with an effect of understatement. *Not uncommon* | 19 | |
| 4802963407 | Euphemism | Substitution of a mild, indirect or vague term for one considered more harsh or offensive. | 20 | |
| 4802966030 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phase repeated in successive lines, clauses or sentences. | 21 | |
| 4802970258 | Apostrophe | Rhetoric where the speaker addresses an absent person or inanimate object. | 22 | |
| 4802973540 | Chiasmus | ABBA pattern. | 23 | |
| 4802978416 | Periodic Sentence | A long sentence in which the completion of the syntax and sense is delayed until the end. | 24 | |
| 4802984765 | Tautology | To repeat oneself without purpose. | 25 | |
| 4802986697 | Aphorism | Statement of general principle condensing much wisdom into a few words. | 26 | |
| 4803001567 | Asyndeton | The absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 27 | |
| 4803001568 | Polysyndeton | Using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might e omitted. | 28 |
