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| 7699859852 | Cause and Effect | Showing or declaring that because one thing happens another thing will be the result. This can be used to provide information or it can be used to provoke a positive or negative feeling such as "If you do not follow my directions, there will be negative consequences." | 0 | |
| 7699895184 | Personification | The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object. Ideas and abstractions can also be personified. It is a metaphorical representation. | 1 | |
| 7699909175 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities. | 2 | |
| 7699925179 | Asyndeton | Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. This can give the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account. Asyndetic lists can be more emphatic than if a final conjunction were used. | 3 | |
| 7699950416 | Narration | Telling a story or recounting a series of events. Can be used as evidence in the form of anecdotes, and it can be used to set a certain mood during a speech or essay. | 4 | |
| 7699955310 | Description | Emphasizes the senses by painting a picture of how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels. Helps to create empathy. This is known as imagery. | 5 | |
| 7699978117 | Process Analysis | Explains how something works, how to do something, or how something was done. Helpful for providing facts about a process but also for creating credibility when you discuss details of research. | 6 | |
| 7699989811 | Comparison and Contrast | Juxtaposing to things to highlight their similarities and differences. Can be used to help create a bias for or against something. | 7 | |
| 7699997192 | Classification and Division | Sorting materials or ideas into major categories. This helps make concepts easier to understand. | 8 | |
| 7700005374 | Antithesis | Opposition or contrast emphasized by parallel structure. Opposites put together to equal each other out. EX: To be or not to be? | 9 | |
| 7700009631 | Metaphor | A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as thought it were that thing. | 10 | |
| 7700018248 | Anaphora | The repetition of introductory words or phrases for effect. This creates a rhythm and establishes a pattern, giving the reader a contextual framework for understanding the ideas. | 11 | |
| 7700518074 | Exemplification | Providing a series of examples-facts, specific cases, or instances- turns a general idea into a concrete one; this makes your argument both clearer and more persuasive to a reader. | 12 | |
| 7700553521 | Classification and Division | to be able to sort material or ideas into categories by answering the question: what goes together and why? Writers and readers can make connections between things that might otherwise seem unrelated. | 13 | |
| 8225518523 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause EX: every tongue brings in several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain. | 14 | |
| 8225725753 | Understatement | The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is | 15 | |
| 8225737684 | Alliteration | repetition of sound at the beginning of words that are close to one another | 16 | |
| 8225752237 | Parallel structure | a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure Mary likes swimming, hiking, and sleeping | 17 | |
| 8225776419 | apostrophe | process in which something that isn't alive is address or talked to as if it was ex: talking to a computer | 18 | |
| 8225792831 | Polysyndenton | the use of multiple conjunctions or coordinate clauses in close succession, as in "The bad news caused him to weep and cry and wail" | 19 | |
| 8225811756 | allusion | brief or indirect reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature or the bible assumed to be well known by the reader | 20 | |
| 8809078071 | Synecdoche | in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean a stage or "wheels" to mean a car: All hands on deck. | 21 | |
| 8809079999 | Metonymy | is a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. A news release that claims "the White House declared" rather that "the President declared" is using metonymy. The substituted term generally carries a more potent emotional response. | 22 | |
| 9187738727 | Aphorism | brief saying embodying a moral statement of a principal or precept given in pointed words EX Imitation is suicide A man is God in ruins | 23 | |
| 9187810224 | Epigram | brief clever, and usually memorable statement EX It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt | 24 | |
| 9187843157 | Juxtaposition | when two words, phrases, images, or ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast EX Or lose her heart, or a necklace at a ball The way Cullen formatted Columbine novel | 25 | |
| 9187931778 | Antimetabole | when grammatical structure and words are reversed when reversing just the words is not enough EX Eat to live, not live to eat. | 26 | |
| 9188001417 | Ellipsis | omitted part of speech that is easily understood in context EX the average person thinks he isn't (average) | 27 | |
| 9549508213 | Synthesia | blending of different senses in describing something EX "The music was bright and colorful" | 28 |
