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| 4227699695 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. | 0 | |
| 4227699696 | allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. | 1 | |
| 4227699697 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. | 2 | |
| 4227699698 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order. | 3 | |
| 4227699699 | antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. | 4 | |
| 4227699700 | archaic diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. | 5 | |
| 4227699701 | asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. | 6 | |
| 4227699705 | syntactic inversion | Inverted order or words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order). | 7 | |
| 4227699706 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences. | 8 | |
| 4227699707 | metaphor | Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. | 9 | |
| 4227699708 | oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another. | 10 | |
| 4227699709 | parallelism | Similarity of grammatical structure in a series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 11 | |
| 4227699711 | personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. | 12 | |
| 4227699712 | rhetorical question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. | 13 | |
| 4227699713 | synecdoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole or the whole to represent the part: "Give us this day our daily bread" : bread=food | 14 | |
| 4227699714 | zeugma | Use of a word in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings. | 15 | |
| 4227711706 | apostrophe | When the speaker addresses a third party, either an absent person or a personified abstraction. | 16 | |
| 4227711707 | epistrophe | The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 17 | |
| 4227712954 | analogy | A comparison between two things. | 18 | |
| 4227712955 | paradox | The juxtaposition of two seemingly contradictory things that reveals a hidden or unexpected truth. | 19 | |
| 4227712972 | simile | A comparison that uses "like" or "as." | 20 | |
| 4227714206 | climax | The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance; or the high point of a story | 21 | |
| 4227714207 | hyperbole | The use of obvious and deliberate exaggeration. | 22 | |
| 4227714208 | understatement | A way of speaking that minimizes the importance of something. | 23 | |
| 4227715445 | irony | A contrast or incongruity between what is expected and what is reality. | 24 | |
| 4227715446 | metonymy | Renaming something a new name that is related in meaning to the original thing or concept: "Hollywood" meaning celebrity life and culture. | 25 | |
| 4227715447 | assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in successive words. | 26 | |
| 4227716607 | consonance | The repetition of middle or final consonant sounds in successive words. | 27 | |
| 4227716608 | litotes | Where a negative statement is used to affirm a positive sentiment: Q: "How are you doing?" A: "I'm not bad." | 28 | |
| 4227720051 | onomatopoeia | A word that sounds like the noise it describes. | 29 | |
| 4227721609 | repetition | The recurrence of a word in order to bring attention to its meaning. | 30 | |
| 4227721610 | rhyme scheme | The pattern of same/similar vowel sounds in words. | 31 | |
| 4227725444 | polysyndeton | When several conjunctions are used to join words, phrases, or clauses when they are not contextually necessary. | 32 | |
| 7133497073 | anthimeria | Takes a word that is typically one part of speech and uses it as a different part of speech | 33 |
