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| 5134273803 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. | 0 | |
| 5134273804 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 1 | |
| 5134273805 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. "Not as a call to bear arms... not as a call to battle" | 2 | |
| 5134273806 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for our country." | 3 | |
| 5134273807 | antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses. "We shall support any friend, oppose any foe." | 4 | |
| 5134273808 | archaic diction | The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language. "Thou shall not kill." | 5 | |
| 5134273809 | asyndeton | A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions. "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend." | 6 | |
| 5134273810 | cumulative sentence | A sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases (main clause is at the beginning). | 7 | |
| 5134273811 | hortative sentence | A sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action. "Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of those that divide us." | 8 | |
| 5134273812 | imperative sentence | A sentence that requests or commands. "My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." | 9 | |
| 5134273813 | inversion | The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. "United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do..." | 10 | |
| 5134273814 | juxtaposition | Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast. "We are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth.. that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans- born in this century." | 11 | |
| 5134273815 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared, does not use like or as. | 12 | |
| 5134273816 | oxymoron | A compact paradox in which two successive words seemingly contradict each other. "Gentle Giant" | 13 | |
| 5134273817 | parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. "Let both sides explore... Let both sides formulate serious and precise proposals... Let both sides seek to invoke..." | 14 | |
| 5134273818 | periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. | 15 | |
| 5134273819 | personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions. | 16 | |
| 5134273820 | rhetorical question | A figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer "Will you join in that historical effort?" | 17 | |
| 5134273821 | synecdoche | A rhetorical trope involving a part of an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a part. "In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course." | 18 | |
| 5134273822 | zeugma | The use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings. "Now the trumpet summons us again- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are- but a call to bear the burden." | 19 | |
| 5650574898 | Aesthetic reading | This type of reading allows the reader to create meaning from and within the text, thus the meaning is personal, debatable, and draws on the reader's experience with the text. | 20 | |
| 5650574899 | Didactic reading | This type of reading are written to teach us something about religion, philosophy, history, or politics. | 21 | |
| 5650574900 | Moral reading | This tpe of reading is based on what is right or wrong. | 22 | |
| 5650575621 | Political reading | This type of reading is about what the political climate at that time was, or what was going on at the time. | 23 |
