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| 4798557780 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. |  | 0 |
| 4798567167 | Anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. |  | 1 |
| 4798568767 | Antithesis | A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses. |  | 2 |
| 4798569919 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity |  | 3 |
| 4798571145 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. |  | 4 |
| 4798574095 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") |  | 5 |
| 4798575811 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. |  | 6 |
| 4798577239 | Metaphor | A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. |  | 7 |
| 4798579080 | Polysyndeton | The use of consecutive coordinating conjunctions even when they are not needed. The effect is to render the reader somewhat breathless. He was overwhelmed, as is by a tsunami, and by the fishes, and by the seaweed, and by the salt spray from the heavens. |  | 8 |
| 4798580911 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |  | 9 |
| 4798582108 | Tricolon | Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. |  | 10 |
