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| 6860254376 | Antanaclasis | Repetition of a similar word in a sentence w/ different meanings; word is repeated in two or more than two different senses | 0 | |
| 6860254377 | Anthimeria | Creation of neogolism by using one part of speech in place of another | 1 | |
| 6860254378 | Antithesis | Two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 2 | |
| 6860254379 | Apostrophe | speaking to an abstract idea or something that cannot be present | 3 | |
| 6860254380 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order | 4 | |
| 6860254381 | Anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 5 | |
| 6860254382 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 6 | |
| 6860254383 | Epithet | Brief, descriptive phrases used to characterize people or things. | 7 | |
| 6860254384 | Epitaph | A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone | 8 | |
| 6860254385 | Prosopopoeia | An absent or imaginary person is represented as speaking | 9 | |
| 6860254386 | Anthropomorphism | the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. | 10 | |
| 6860254387 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 11 | |
| 6860254388 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 12 | |
| 6860254389 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 13 | |
| 6860254390 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 14 | |
| 6860254391 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 15 | |
| 6860254392 | Idiom | A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. | 16 | |
| 6860254393 | Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself | 17 | |
| 6860254394 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 18 | |
| 6860254395 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 19 | |
| 6860254396 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 20 | |
| 6860254397 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 21 | |
| 6860254398 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 22 | |
| 6860254399 | Polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 23 | |
| 6860254400 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 24 | |
| 6860254401 | Polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root | 25 | |
| 6860254402 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 26 | |
| 6860254403 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 27 | |
| 6860254404 | Zeugma | Uses one word to modify two other words two different ways | 28 | |
| 6860254405 | Antimetabole | A phrase or sentence is repeated in reverse order | 29 | |
| 6860254406 | Chaismus | Two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures | 30 | |
| 6860254407 | Andiplosis | Repetition of the last word of a repeating clause | 31 | |
| 6860254408 | Synesthia | Appealing to more than one sense | 32 | |
| 6860254409 | red herring fallacy | An irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from an original issue | 33 | |
| 6860254410 | Straw Man Fallacy | Misinterpreting someone's argument to make it easier to attack | 34 | |
| 6860254411 | Ad Hominem Fallacy | Attacking someone's personal traits to undermine their argument | 35 | |
| 6860254412 | Post Hoc Fallacy | Because one thing occurred after another, it must have occurred as a result of it | 36 | |
| 6860254413 | Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence. | 37 | |
| 6860254414 | Card Stacking | propaganda technique involving the use of showing one-sided information | 38 | |
| 6860254415 | Begging the Question | A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt. | 39 | |
| 6860254416 | non sequitur | an idea that does not follow logically | 40 | |
| 6860254417 | eponym | a person for whom something, such as a city, building, or street, has been named | 41 | |
| 6860254418 | Hubris | Excessive pride that brings a characters downfall | 42 | |
| 6860254419 | Hamartia | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine. | 43 | |
| 6860254420 | Erotema | A question that is asked without needing an answer | 44 | |
| 6860254421 | Homily | a sermon | 45 | |
| 6860254422 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. | 46 |
