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| 4392433569 | expletive | Indeed; in fact | 0 | |
| 4392450784 | parallelism | I came. I saw. I conquered. | 1 | |
| 4392455707 | antithesis | That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Give me liberty or give me death. | 2 | |
| 4392462567 | anaphora | To think on death it is a misery, / To think on life it is a vanity; / To think on the world verily it is, / To think that here man hath no perfect bliss. -Peacham | 3 | |
| 4392471583 | hypophora | But it is certainly possible to ask, How hot is the oven at its hottest point, when the *average* temperature is 425 degrees? We learned that the peak temperatures approached... (The technique of asking a question in order to control the discourse by answering it.) | 4 | |
| 4392482528 | metonymy | The orders came directly from the White House. The checkered flag waved and victory crossed the finish line. (The name of one object is substituted for that of another "White House" rather than "President;" this is done for impact) | 5 | |
| 4392487106 | apostrophe | "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" | 6 | |
| 4392490780 | alliteration | "Sally sells seashells..." | 7 | |
| 4392497864 | chiasmus | He labors without complaining and without bragging rests (a special form of parallelism - more ornate - that flips the original form: "He smiled happily and joyfully laughed.") | 8 | |
| 4392500790 | allusion | If you take his parking place, you can expect WWII all over again. Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. | 9 | |
| 4392504421 | synedoche | If I had some wheels, I'd put on my best threads and ask for Jane's hand in marriage. | 10 | |
| 4392508086 | epithet | "Richard the Lion Hearted" to describe a brave king;"Man's best friend" to describe a dog (Attaching a descriptive adjective to a noun) | 11 | |
| 4392513414 | hyperbole | There are a thousand reasons why more research is needed on solar energy. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. | 12 | |
| 4392517178 | oxymoron | The cost-saving program became an expensive endeavor. A wise-fool. | 13 | |
| 4392523418 | understatement | The 1906 San Francisco earthquake interrupted business somewhat in the downtown area. | 14 | |
| 11260221661 | satire | Hey, Mrs. Segalla, thanks for all the homework! | 15 | |
| 11260229713 | anadiplosis | "Fear leads to change; anger leads to fear; hate leads to suffering." (Last word of one clause is used at the beginning of the next). | 16 | |
| 11260259331 | wit | clever banter | 17 | |
| 11260271263 | anthimeria | Google is a noun, but we say "I googled it" changing google to a verb (using one part of speech for another; verbing nouns). | 18 | |
| 11260303849 | conduplicatio | "Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair." (taking an important word from anywhere in one sentence and repeating it the next). | 19 | |
| 11260327718 | zeugma example | "[They] covered themselves with dust and glory." (using one word to govern two other words NOT related in meaning.) | 20 | |
| 11260344565 | invective example | "My opponent is a lying, cheating, immoral bully!" (using emotionally abusive language). | 21 | |
| 11260351058 | litotes example | It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. (Understatement). | 22 | |
| 11260359061 | trope | The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor; using a word in a sense other than its proper, literal one. | 23 | |
| 11260391524 | sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 24 | |
| 11260397717 | syllogism example | Rocks are hard, hard things shouldn't be chewed, therefore rocks shouldn't be chewed. (A system of formal logic that presents to premises that lead to a sound conclusion). | 25 | |
| 11260430790 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end (example: "Ecstatic with my AP scores, I let out a joyful shout!") | 26 | |
| 11260502425 | reptition | repeating words, phrases, lines or groups of lines in a poem for emphasis | 27 | |
| 11260530458 | epistrophe example | "Where now? Who now? When now?" (The opposite of anaphors: Repetition at the END of successive clauses. Like, "They saw no evil, they spoke no evil, they heard no evil.) | 28 | |
| 11260553456 | Procatalepsis | Many experts classify Sanskrit as an extinct language, but I do not." (Related to hypophora, this technique deals specifically with objections - usually without even asking questions.) | 29 | |
| 11260593119 | parody | humorous imitation (usually done to offer enlightenment about the original). | 30 | |
| 11260614028 | euphemism example | saying "he passed on" rather than "he died" (Greek word for "good speech") | 31 | |
| 11260621868 | exemplum example | Let me give you an example. In the early 1920's in Germany, the government let the printing presses turn out endless quantities of paper money, and soon, the cost of postage stamps increased one billion percent. | 32 | |
| 11260633763 | loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. Loose sentences create loose style. | 33 |
