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| 9713124793 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another | 0 | |
| 9713131677 | Allusion | A reference to a well known person, place, or thing from literature, history etc. | 1 | |
| 9713140214 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word or phrase in once clause at or very near the beginning of the following clause | 2 | |
| 9713152958 | Analogy | Comparison of two similar but different things, usually to clarify an action or a relationship, such as comparing the work of a heart to that of a pump. A comparison to a directly parallel case. | 3 | |
| 9713170320 | 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. | 4 | |
| 9713192377 | Anecdote | A short, simple narrative of an incident; often used for humorous effector to make a point | 5 | |
| 9713205569 | Antithesis | The presentation of two contrasting ideas. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. | 6 | |
| 9713219951 | Apostrophe | Usually in poetry but sometimes in prose; the device of calling out an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction. | 7 | |
| 9713236808 | Asyndeton | Commas used to separate a series of words. The parts are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of a sentence | 8 | |
| 9713259075 | Chiasmus | Might be called "reverse parallelism" since the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order | 9 | |
| 9713274726 | Connotation | Implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association in the reader's mind | 10 | |
| 9713284562 | Denotation | Literal meaning of a word as defined | 11 | |
| 9713295786 | Diction | Word choice, an element of style; it creates tone, attitude, and style as well as meaning. Different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meaning. | 12 | |
| 9713325416 | Dissonance | Harsh or grating sounds that do not go together | 13 | |
| 9713335539 | Ellipsis | The artful immersion of a word implied by a previous clause | 14 | |
| 9713341747 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis | 15 | |
| 9713348475 | Idiom | A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in keep tabs on | 16 | |
| 9713365697 | Inversion | Reversing the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase; it is used effectively in many cases, such as posing a question | 17 | |
| 9713409535 | Juxtaposition | The placement of two things near eachother | 18 | |
| 9713416161 | Litotes | A particular form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used | 19 | |
| 9713434933 | Metonymy | A figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is assosciated | 20 | |
| 9713449609 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as "wise fool" "bitter sweet" | 21 | |
| 9713461365 | Paradox | A statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning | 22 | |
| 9713467895 | Parallelism | The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in grammatical form | 23 | |
| 9713480052 | Syntax | The grammatical structure of a sentence | 24 | |
| 9713484922 | Understatement | The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended | 25 | |
| 9713496179 | Zeugma | When a grammatical construction changes the verb's initial meaning but is still grammatically correct | 26 | |
| 9713507056 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent a whole | 27 | |
| 9713522785 | Allegory | An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances. A story with two or more levels of meaning | 28 | |
| 9713529518 | Colloquial | Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | 29 |
