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| 7744134746 | Alliteration | The repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row. | 0 | |
| 7744134748 | Hyperbole | A trope composed of exaggerated words or ideals used for emphasis and not to be taken literally. | 1 | |
| 7744134750 | Litotes | Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary). | 2 | |
| 7744134752 | 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. | 3 | |
| 7744134754 | 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. | 4 | |
| 7744134757 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 5 | |
| 7744134758 | Personification | A trope in which human qualities or abilities are assigned to abstractions or inanimate objects. | 6 | |
| 7744134760 | 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." | 7 | |
| 7744134762 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech - a part is used for the whole. Or the whole is used for a part. | 8 | |
| 7744134768 | Trope | The use of a word, phrase, or image in a way not intended by its normal signification. | 9 | |
| 7744134769 | Understatement | A restrained statement that departs from what could be said; a studied avoidance of emphasis or exaggeration, often to create a particular effect | 10 |
