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| 6353053186 | Allegory | Story in which everything is a symbol. | 0 | |
| 6353056069 | Zeugma | Figure of speech where a word applies to more than one noun (logically different ideas)."You took my heart and my keys and my patience." | 1 | |
| 6353062472 | Colloquial | Informal language. | 2 | |
| 6353065676 | Diatribe | Verbal attack. | 3 | |
| 6353067052 | Euphemism | Makes something bad sound better. "The old man passed away." | 4 | |
| 6353069167 | Homily | Serious talk, speech, or lecture providing moral or spiritual advice. | 5 | |
| 6353079058 | Litote | Understatement for rhetorical effect. | 6 | |
| 6353082487 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms that appear in conjunction, creates dramatic effect. | 7 | |
| 6353087954 | Paradox | Statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory but is actually a possible truth. | 8 | |
| 6353103566 | Vernacular | Language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular region. | 9 | |
| 6353105111 | Understatement | Deliberate expression of an ideas as less important than it actually is. | 10 | |
| 6353106049 | Rhetorical question | Questions that prompt thought or focus discussion and are not meant to be answered literally. | 11 | |
| 6353110410 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series. | 12 | |
| 6353114780 | Allusion | Reference within a work to something famous outside it (like event, story, work of art, literature, person, pop culture). | 13 | |
| 6353118839 | Pun | Play on words that have the same sound but have different meanings, usually witty or humorous. | 14 | |
| 6353127065 | Archetype | Recurrent image, symbol, or character that is an expression of human nature and experiences that are universal. | 15 | |
| 6353133562 | Assonance | Repeating a vowel sound throughout a sentence phrase, paragraph, or piece of writing. | 16 | |
| 6353136528 | Diction | Choice or style of words in speech or writing. | 17 | |
| 6353138515 | Anecdote | Short account of a particular incident or event. | 18 | |
| 6353139397 | Anitclimax | Opposite of climax and signifies a descent from the higher to the lower. Often following a crisis, tension level decreases. | 19 |
