3429872210 | Allegory | narrative with multiple levels of meaning | 0 | |
3429925452 | Alliteration | Sequential repetition of similar initial sounds | 1 | |
3429928979 | Allusion | a literary, historical, religious or mythological reference | 2 | |
3429933573 | Anaphora | repetition of words at start of successive classes | 3 | |
3429937273 | Antithesis | juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balances parallel words | 4 | |
3429942296 | Aphorism | Concise Statement designed to make a point, illustrate commonly held believe | 5 | |
3429954581 | Apostrophe | adress to something inanimate | 6 | |
3430073897 | assonance | repetition of identical, similar vowel sounds | 7 | |
3430078390 | asyndeton | style were conjunctions are omitted | 8 | |
3430081693 | canon | that which has been accepted as authentic | 9 | |
3430084870 | connotation | meaning suggested by a word apart from its denotation, or explicit reason | 10 | |
3430094257 | consonance | repetition of two or more consonants | 11 | |
3430102432 | elegy | poetic lament upon death of particular person | 12 | |
3430106625 | epistrophe | repetition of a word | 13 | |
3430109042 | epitaph | praise for a dead person, usually on a headstone | 14 | |
3430115000 | euphemism | kinder way to give unpleasant information | 15 | |
3430121546 | Homily | Sermon, talk, lecture on moral or spiritual life | 16 | |
3430126425 | Jargon | specialized, technical language of a trade, profession or similar group. | 17 | |
3430134335 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which an attribute, feature is use to designate or name something | 18 | |
3430142262 | Onomatopoeia | words that sound like what it describes | 19 | |
3430150439 | Oxymoron | figure of speeach combining two apparently contradictory elements, often humorous. | 20 | |
3430160064 | prose | Ordinary for of writing language, not poetry | 21 | |
3430164317 | Synecdoche | when a part is used to signify a whole | 22 | |
3430169098 | juxtaposition | location of one thing adjacent to another | 23 | |
3430171522 | Litote | figure of speech that emphasized its subject by conscious understatement | 24 | |
3430178515 | paradox | seemingly contradictory statement | 25 |
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