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| 6177575367 | Allusion | short reference to a famous thing; ex: reference to bible, famous literature, mythology | 0 | |
| 6177596129 | amplification | embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability. | 1 | |
| 6177623189 | anadiplosis | fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering | 2 | |
| 6177633947 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses. | 3 | |
| 6177656083 | anastrophe | speech inversion | 4 | |
| 6177664004 | anecdote | a short account of an incident or event | 5 | |
| 6177695087 | antanagoge | a negative point is balanced with a positive one (how I talk to my mother about racism) | 6 | |
| 6177703601 | antistrophe | repetition of words at the end of successive phrases or sentences | 7 | |
| 6177708878 | antimetabole | the arrangement of a phrase so that the first part means once thing and the second part means the opposite but using the same words; ex: "eat to live, not live to eat."; "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." | 8 | |
| 6177736444 | antithesis | contrast w/in a sentence; ex: "one small step for man, one giant step for mankind." | 9 | |
| 6177763038 | aphorism | A saying or expression; ex: "Oh yes the past can hurt. But, you run from it or learn from it." | 10 | |
| 6177769521 | aporia | an expression of doubt. "to be or not to be" | 11 | |
| 6177776533 | apostrophe | when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. This third party may be an individual, either present or absent in the scene; ex: "O holy night! The stars are brightly shining!" | 12 | |
| 6177818139 | appositive | An appositive phrase is a noun phrase that identifies or renames another noun phrase directly before or after it. For example, you might say, "I'm going to see my dentist, Dr. Parkins." | 13 | |
| 6177844266 | archaic diction/ archaism | using words from an earlier time period; "he stoppeth" | 14 | |
| 6177863729 | apostrophe | some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if resent and capable of responding | 15 | |
| 6177875702 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions b/w parts f a sentence; "I saw lightning, fast, bright, right before my eyes." | 16 | |
| 6177882201 | biased language | words and phrases that can be considered prejudiced, offensive, and hurtful; "american is the greatest country." | 17 | |
| 6177890203 | chiasmus | repeating ideas in opposite order; "fair is foul, foul is fair"; "Life is music and music is a part of life." | 18 | |
| 6177903094 | colloquialism | using phrases or words in an informal was instead off forms way. "she's out" instead of "she's not home" | 19 | |
| 6177909340 | conduplicatio | repeating words | 20 | |
| 6177912781 | doublespeak | use of words to deceive and twist what is meant by the speaker to cloak the truth ; language that can be understood in more than one way to trick people. "we killed 50 people with the PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE on our enemy yesterday." | 21 | |
| 6177952728 | isocolon (tricolon) | a figure of speech where two clauses contain parallel thoughts or ideas. "I came; I saw; I conquered.", "the stronger they were, the harder they fell." | 22 | |
| 6177971645 | litotes | when you say something positive but you mean it in a negative way "Wow you're so good painting. My four year old niece can paint better than that." | 23 | |
| 6177981613 | metabasis | switching from one topic to another | 24 | |
| 6177988580 | enumeratio | using an immense amount of examples or lists to prove a point | 25 | |
| 6177994129 | epigram | sort concise statement that makes an interesting observation about the world. "speech is silver but silence is golden." | 26 | |
| 6178010454 | epigraph | a quote at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme. usually a quote form a famous person. (think quotes at the beginning of Dune.) | 27 | |
| 6178019388 | epistrophe | repeating certain word at the end of a phrase for dramatic effect; "Of the people, by the people, for the people." | 28 | |
| 6178031519 | epithet | an adjective used to describe a person or thing. "His midnight blue eyes could make any girl fall for him."; "The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea." | 29 | |
| 6178052471 | euphemism | replacement of a possibly rude statement with a more gentle and inoffensive phrase or expression.: "passed away" rather than "died" | 30 | |
| 6178072542 | eponym | a person whom a a place, thing, or era was named after. ex: elizabethan era was named after queen elizabeth | 31 | |
| 6178085970 | hendiadys | when a complex idea (usually two nouns) are joined by a conjunction (usually "and") EX: He cam despite the ran and weather instead of "He came despite the rainy weather." or We were sweating profusely in the heat and sun. instead of "We were sweating profusely in the hot midday sun." | 32 | |
| 6178142569 | hyperbaton | the movement of words from their original order... kinda like anastrophe "winter kept us warm, covering." "Earth is forgetful snow, feeding." | 33 | |
| 6178167683 | hypophora | When speaker asks a question and then immediately answers it "There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality." | 34 | |
| 6178173166 | parataxis | the placing or clauses or phrases one after another without coordinating or subordinating. "Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline." "Pork. The other white meat." | 35 | |
| 6178230496 | metonymy | a figurative phrase that is used to stand in for another word. A type of "trope" "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." (ears used to describe listening) | 36 | |
| 6178244734 | Nominalization | A type or word formation in which a verb or an adjective is used as a noun "The scientists generated a report of their findings" --> the word "report" instead of using it as a verb with: "The scientists reported their findings." | 37 | |
| 6178411270 | parallelism | similarity in syntactical structure | 38 | |
| 6178415521 | parenthetical expression | an expression that is added into a sentence, even through it is not part of the main idea "The tortoise, as we know, has not been around for thousands of years." "The aim of this meeting, ladies and gentlemen, is to come to an agreement." | 39 | |
| 6178447917 | paronomasia | to make a word has different possible meanings; word play; funny language. "I use to tap dance until i fell in the sink." | 40 | |
| 6178455153 | pleonasm | using several more words than needed to describe an object or idea; to use more obvious words then needed to fully get your meaning across "all this I saw with my own eyes, and it was the most fearsome sight I ever witnessed." "ATM machine, HIV virus, RAM memory" | 41 | |
| 6178471989 | polysyndeton | the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession "When you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and other resentments;..." "We did our homework, watched television, and went to bed." | 42 | |
| 6178488419 | Procatalepsis (Prebuttal) | rating an objection to one's own argument and then answering it "It is difficult to see how a pilot boat could be completely immune to capsizing or plunging, but pilot boat design criteria must meet the needs of the industry and pilotage authorities." | 43 | |
| 6178503975 | racist language | whiting or speech that shows prejudice to other races "Take up the white man's burden..." | 44 | |
| 6178513874 | rhetorical question | a questioned asked just for the effect with no answer expected "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?" | 45 | |
| 6178523655 | sentential | A word or short phrase emphasizing the word immediately after it. "But the lake was not, in fact, drained before April." "The internet is, without a doubt, one of the most effective means of communication and gossip." | 46 | |
| 6178534863 | syllogism | two phrases followed by a logical conclusion based on those two phrases "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable." | 47 | |
| 6178544688 | symploce | when the beginning and end of two parts of a sentence have the same phrase. "When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it." "Even when it hurts we don't give up, even when we don't want to continue the don't give up." | 48 | |
| 6178568020 | Synesthesia | describing one sense to explain another "frozen silence" "bitter cold" "warm colors" | 49 | |
| 6178600324 | sexist language | language used that sis biased toward and offensive about either gender, or that subtly disregards one of the genders "Honey, ladies are bad drivers." | 50 | |
| 6178608979 | synecdoche | a part is used to represent a whole "all hands on deck!" "..was on in the market for a new set of wheels." "Take thy face sense!" | 51 | |
| 6178614665 | syntax | changing the order of words to give a different meaning "colorless green ideas sleep furiously." | 52 | |
| 6178629860 | taboo language | words and phrases that are generally considered inappropriate in certain contexts "Life does not stop and start at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit." | 53 | |
| 6178637002 | tautology | needless repetition of the same sense in different words "I want to live while I am alive" "With malice toward none, with charity toward all." | 54 | |
| 6178644803 | understatement | making something seem less important than it actually is. "The 1906 San Francisco earthquake interrupted business somewhat in the downtown area." | 55 | |
| 6178655093 | zeugma | Using a word that applies to two other words but in different senses, or applied logically to one one out of the two words; word distribution. "She arrived in a taxi and a flaming rage." | 56 |
