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| 5204012616 | Alliteration | The repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row. | 0 | |
| 5204012617 | Example of Alliteration | "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." | 1 | |
| 5204012618 | Hyperbole | A trope composed of exaggerated words or ideals used for emphasis and not to be taken literally. | 2 | |
| 5204012619 | Example of Hyperbole | "I've told you a million times not to call me a liar!" | 3 | |
| 5204012620 | Litotes | Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary). | 4 | |
| 5204012621 | Example of Litotes | "I was not a little upset" when you mean "I was very upset" "Not bad at all." "This is no small problem." | 5 | |
| 5204012622 | Metaphor | A trope in which a word or phrase is transferred from its literal meaning to stand for something else. Unlike a simile, in which something is said to be "like" something else, a metaphor says something is something else. | 6 | |
| 5204012623 | Example of Metaphor | "Debt is a bottomless sea." | 7 | |
| 5204012624 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original closely related to or suggested by the original. | 8 | |
| 5204012625 | Example of Metonymy | "Crown" to mean "king" ("The power of the crown was mortally weakened") or an author for his works ("I'm studying Shakespeare"). Mark Antony's speech in Julius Caesar in which he asks of his audience: "Lend me your ears." | 9 | |
| 5204012626 | Example of Onomatopoeia | Crash, zing, splash, kaboom. Bing. | 10 | |
| 5204012627 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 11 | |
| 5204012628 | Personification | A trope in which human qualities or abilities are assigned to abstractions or inanimate objects. | 12 | |
| 5204012629 | Example of Personification | "Integrity thumbs its nose at pomposity." | 13 | |
| 5204012630 | Simile | A trope in which one states a comparison between two things that are not alike but have similarities. Unlike metaphors, similes employ "like" or "as." | 14 | |
| 5204012631 | Example of Simile | "Her eyes are as blue as a robin's egg." | 15 | |
| 5204012632 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech - a part is used for the whole. Or the whole is used for a part. | 16 | |
| 5204012633 | Example of Synecdoche--part for whole | Hired hands for workmen | 17 | |
| 5204012634 | Example of Synecdoche--whole for part | The law for police officer | 18 | |
| 5204012635 | Example of Synecdoche--Specific for the general | Cutthroat for assassin | 19 | |
| 5204012636 | Example of Synecdoche--General for the specific | Thief for pickpocket | 20 | |
| 5204012637 | Example of Synecdoche--Material for thing made from it | Steel for sword | 21 | |
| 5204012638 | Trope | The use of a word, phrase, or image in a way not intended by its normal signification. | 22 | |
| 5204012639 | Understatement | A restrained statement that departs from what could be said; a studied avoidance of emphasis or exaggeration, often to create a particular effect | 23 |
