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| 7686610580 | ALLITERATION | Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. | 0 | |
| 7686617641 | ANAPHORA | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. | 1 | |
| 7686617642 | ANECDOTE | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual. | 2 | |
| 7686635099 | APOSTROPHE | Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. | 3 | |
| 7686635100 | CLICHE | A word of phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse. | 4 | |
| 7686639396 | COLLOQUIALISM | A word of phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. | 5 | |
| 7686639397 | EPITHET | An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality. | 6 | |
| 7686641950 | FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms. | 7 | |
| 7686641951 | FLASHBACK | A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. | 8 | |
| 7686641952 | FORESHADOWING | The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. | 9 | |
| 7686644533 | HYPERBOLE | A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration of overstatement, for effect. | 10 | |
| 7686644534 | IMAGERY | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. | 11 | |
| 7686644535 | JUXTAPOSITION | The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 12 | |
| 7686648305 | METAPHOR | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 13 | |
| 7686648306 | METONYMY | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. | 14 | |
| 7686651345 | OXYMORON | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 15 | |
| 7686651346 | PUN | A "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things. | 16 | |
| 7686651347 | SIMILE | A figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles. | 17 | |
| 7686654157 | SOLILOQUY | A long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage. | 18 | |
| 7686654158 | SYNECDOCHE | A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. | 19 | |
| 7686656158 | UNDERSTATEMENT | A statement that says less than what is meant. | 20 | |
| 7686656159 | ZEUGMA | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses. | 21 | |
| 7686668742 | ASSONANCE | The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. | 22 |
