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| 5834512797 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures; and inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases ex. Each throat was parched, and glazed each eye. | 0 | |
| 5834512798 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order with different words (form of chiasmus) ex. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. | 1 | |
| 5834512799 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect. Overstatement to make a point. ex. This box weighs a ton! | 2 | |
| 5834512800 | Complex Sentence | Includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 3 | |
| 5834512801 | Archaic Diction | Old fashioned or outdated choice of words | 4 | |
| 5834512802 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere created by text | 5 | |
| 5834512803 | Juxtaposition | Placing of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 6 | |
| 5834512804 | Oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict each other | 7 | |
| 5834512805 | Synedoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole ex. In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. | 8 | |
| 5834512806 | Antithesis | Opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction to highlight a point ex. It has been said we are good, but I say we are bad. | 9 | |
| 5834512807 | Simile | Figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing to something using the words like, as, or as though | 10 | |
| 5834512808 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on ex. The radiators put out lots of heat, too much, in fact, and old-fashioned sounds and smells came with it, exhalations of the matter that composes our own mortality, and reminiscent of the intimate gases we all diffuse. | 11 | |
| 5834512809 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words ex. I came, I saw, I conquered. | 12 | |
| 5834512810 | Diction | Speakers choice of words | 13 | |
| 5834512811 | Metaphor | Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as | 14 | |
| 5834512812 | Hortative Sentence | Sentence that exhorts, entreats, implores, or calls to action ex. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. | 15 | |
| 5834512813 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginnings of several words or syllables in sequence | 16 | |
| 5834512814 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence(variation of the subject-verb-object | 17 | |
| 5834512815 | Compound Sentence | A sentence that includes at least two independent clauses | 18 | |
| 5834512816 | Imperative Sentence | Sentence used to command or enjoin | 19 | |
| 5834512817 | Tone | Speakers attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speakers stylistic and rhetorical choices | 20 | |
| 5834512818 | Parallelism | Similarity of structures in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 21 | |
| 5834512820 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meaning ex. give them thy fingers, me thy lips. | 22 | |
| 5834512821 | Syntax | The arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences | 23 | |
| 5834512822 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word of phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, lines | 24 | |
| 5834512823 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end ex. Because of adding a pool, spa and restaurant, the hotel is experiencing an increase in guests. | 25 | |
| 5834512824 | Rhetorical question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 26 | |
| 5834512825 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | 27 | |
| 5834512826 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place or to a work of art | 28 | |
| 5834512828 | Epistrophe | Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words | 29 | |
| 5834512831 | Polysyndeton | A stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect ex. They lived and laughed and loved and left. | 30 | |
| 5834526440 | Hendiadys | the use of two words linked by a conjunction to express a single, more complex idea ex. The heat and sun of midday (vs. the hot midday sun.) | 31 | |
| 5835337003 | Epizeuxis | Repetition of a word for emphasis ex. Thou it come no more, never, never, never, never! | 32 | |
| 5835347325 | Syllepis | a construction in which one word (usually verb/preposition) is applied to two other words or phrases ex. He works his work, I mine! | 33 | |
| 5835355572 | Diacope | repetition of a phrase or word broken up by other intervening words ex. to be or not to be | 34 | |
| 5835358115 | Epimone | repetition of a phrase to stress a point ex. Fat folds of neck, fat, neck, fat, neck. | 35 | |
| 5835364600 | Polyptoton | repetition of the same root word but with different endings | 36 | |
| 5835365849 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of the preceding clause with the word being used at the beginning of the next sentence ex. All service ranks the same with God, With God, whose puppets, best and worst, are we. | 37 |
