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| 8596927622 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
| 8596930457 | allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | 1 | |
| 8596930458 | anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order | 2 | |
| 8596932570 | apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 3 | |
| 8596932571 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth | 4 | |
| 8596932572 | simile | comparison using like or as | 5 | |
| 8596932573 | metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. | 6 | |
| 8596935590 | synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing | 7 | |
| 8596938014 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 8 | |
| 8596938015 | asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence | 9 | |
| 8596941894 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 10 | |
| 8596941895 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 11 | |
| 8596941896 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 12 | |
| 8596945123 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 13 | |
| 8596945124 | antithesis | a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced; exact opposite | 14 | |
| 8596945125 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | 15 | |
| 8596947667 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 16 | |
| 8596947668 | aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 17 | |
| 8596947669 | syntax | sentence structure | 18 | |
| 8596950191 | diction | word choice | 19 | |
| 8596950192 | logos | appeal to logic | 20 | |
| 8596950193 | ethos | credibility | 21 | |
| 8596950194 | pathos | emotional appeal | 22 | |
| 8596954929 | parallel structure / parallelism | the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way | 23 | |
| 8596958888 | rhetorical question | a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered | 24 |
