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| 3146005679 | Analogy | Comparison in which an idea or theme is compared to another thing that is quite different from it | 0 | |
| 3146005680 | Analogy example | Life is like a race the one who keeps running wins and the one who stops to take a breath loses | 1 | |
| 3146005681 | Personification | Giving humanlike qualities to nonhuman things | 2 | |
| 3146005682 | Personification example | The stars danced in the night sky | 3 | |
| 3146005683 | Parallelism | Using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or are identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter | 4 | |
| 3146005684 | Parallelism example | What you see is what you get | 5 | |
| 3146005685 | Anaphora | Beginning several lines or phrases with the same word. Creates parallelism or a rhythm | 6 | |
| 3146005686 | Anaphora example | Five years has passed five Summers five long winters | 7 | |
| 3146005687 | Litote | Figure of speech employs an understatement by using double negatives | 8 | |
| 3146005688 | Litote example | Not too bad | 9 | |
| 3146005689 | Pun | A joke explaining the different possible meanings of a word | 10 | |
| 3146005690 | Pun example | I was wondering why the ball was getting closer, then it hit me | 11 | |
| 3146005691 | Antithesis | When two opposite ideas are put in a sentence to produce a contrasting affect | 12 | |
| 3146005692 | Antithesis example | Speech is silver but silence is gold | 13 | |
| 3146005693 | Chiasum | Rhetorical device of when 2 or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures | 14 | |
| 3146005694 | Chiasum example | Never let a kiss fool you or a fool kiss you | 15 | |
| 3146005695 | Aphorism | Statement of truth or opinion expressed in a witty matter | 16 | |
| 3146005696 | Aphorism example | The man who removes a mountain begins by moving small stones | 17 | |
| 3146005697 | Rhetorical question | A question asked for an affect or emphasis; an answer is not expected | 18 | |
| 3146005698 | Rhetorical question example | A girl asks if you love her you say is the Pope Catholic? | 19 | |
| 3146005699 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in nearby words. Used to set mood or enhance meaning of words | 20 | |
| 3146005700 | Assonance example | If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got fleeced | 21 | |
| 3146005701 | Consonance | Caused by the repetition of consonant sounds in a sentence; usually appears in the middle or end of the word | 22 | |
| 3146005702 | Consonance example | Norm the worm fled from the storm | 23 | |
| 3146005703 | Imagery | Use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas in such a way that appeals to ones physical senses | 24 | |
| 3146005704 | Imagery example | As the light steady wind blows in the dark grey sky | 25 | |
| 3146005705 | Onomatopoeia | Words that imitate a sound | 26 | |
| 3146005706 | Onomatopoeia example | Bang crash | 27 | |
| 3146005707 | Metaphor | Figure of speech in which a word or a phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 28 | |
| 3146005708 | Metaphor example | He drowned in a sea of grief | 29 | |
| 3146005709 | Simile | Comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 30 | |
| 3146005710 | Simile example | The café was like a battleship stripped for action | 31 | |
| 3146005711 | Extended metaphor | The comparison of two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences or phrases | 32 | |
| 3146005712 | Implied metaphor | When the characteristic being compared between two objects is not directly stated and left up to the reader to imply meaning | 33 | |
| 3146005713 | Implied metaphor example | She she told her husband to go fetch dinner | 34 | |
| 3146005714 | Apostrophe | When a poet addresses an abstract idea, absent person or thing | 35 | |
| 3146005715 | Apostrophe example | Yelling at a telephone when you know the telephone will not respond | 36 | |
| 3146005716 | Oxymoron | When two opposite or contrasting words are joined together | 37 | |
| 3146005717 | Oxymoron example | The living dead | 38 | |
| 3146005718 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical cultural or literary Or political significance | 39 | |
| 3146005719 | Irony | The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite | 40 | |
| 3146005720 | Irony example | Escalators leading up to the workout room | 41 | |
| 3146005721 | Satire | Use of irony or sarcasm to expose and criticize peoples stupidity | 42 | |
| 3146005722 | Satire example | Censorship is so stupid ****** | 43 | |
| 3146005723 | Parody | Imitation of the style of a certain writer or genre using exaggeration for a comic effect | 44 | |
| 3146005724 | Parody example | Shakespeare mocking poets of his time | 45 | |
| 3146005725 | Understatement | Making something seem less important than it really is | 46 | |
| 3146005726 | Understatement example | I have a tiny tumor in my brain | 47 | |
| 3146005727 | Euphemism | Polite expression in a place where words may typically be harsh to hear | 48 | |
| 3146005728 | Euphemism example | Saying someone bit the dust instead of saying they died | 49 | |
| 3146005729 | Cliché | An expression that is been overused so it loses its original meaning | 50 | |
| 3146005730 | Cliché | And they all lived happily ever after | 51 | |
| 3146005731 | Climax | Artistic arrangement of a list of items that appear in a sequence of increasing importance | 52 | |
| 3146005732 | Asyndeton | When an author leaves out conjunctions between words phrases or ideas | 53 | |
| 3146005733 | Asyndeton example | I came, I saw, I conquered | 54 | |
| 3146005734 | Polysyndeton | Several coordinating conjunctions used in succession to create an artistic effect | 55 | |
| 3146005735 | Polysyndeton example | If there be cords, or fire, or knives, or wolves | 56 | |
| 3146005736 | Anecdote | Short or interesting story usually use to open a paper | 57 | |
| 3146005737 | Zeugma | When a verb or adjective is used like a noun | 58 | |
| 3146005738 | Zeugma example | They cover themselves with Dust and glory | 59 |
