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| 6490188478 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or iconic effect; overstatement to make a point; exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 0 | |
| 6490188479 | Exaggeration | a statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is |  | 1 |
| 6490190253 | Distortion | a literary device that twists, exaggerates or distorts a meaning by stressing a critical meaning. This creates a meaning that's extremely different from the original. |  | 2 |
| 6490190254 | Reversal | stating the opposite of a normal, known order; similar to irony | 3 | |
| 6490191866 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important that it actually is |  | 4 |
| 6490191867 | Invective | insulting, abusive, or highly critical language | 5 | |
| 6490191868 | Diatribe | a forceful and bitter attack against someone or something; bitter and abusive speech or writing |  | 6 |
| 6490193334 | Pun | a play on words that are either identical in sound (homonyms) or similar in sound with diverse meanings; a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound like but have different meanings |  | 7 |
| 6490193335 | Malapropism | the act of misusing words of similar sounds; the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect |  | 8 |
| 6490194813 | Incongruity | the condition of being inappropriate or inconsistent; the state of being out of place |  | 9 |
| 6490194814 | Parody | an exaggerated imitation of a piece of work for comedic effect; an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect |  | 10 |
| 6490194815 | Allegory | a piece of writing that contains a hidden message or meaning within it; a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 11 | |
| 6490199287 | Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphasis |  | 12 |
| 6490199288 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparent sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory |  | 13 |
| 6490199289 | Antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other |  | 14 |
| 6490201103 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation; the use of ordinary or familiar words or phrases | 15 | |
| 6490202475 | Anticlimax | a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events |  | 16 |
| 6490203483 | Obscenity | the state or quality of being obscene (offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency); an extremely offensive word or expression |  | 17 |
| 6490205218 | Violence | behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something; the strength of emotion or an unpleasant or destructive natural force |  | 18 |
| 6490205219 | Vividness | producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind |  | 19 |
