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| 5525666196 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 0 | |
| 5525673179 | isocolon | parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length | 1 | |
| 5525679076 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure -- may be in words or ideas or both | 2 | |
| 5525684396 | anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order; can emphasize a point or can sound awkward; draws special attention to the phrase | 3 | |
| 5525696656 | parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | 4 | |
| 5525705541 | apposition | two coordinate elements placed side-by-side -- the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first | 5 | |
| 5525717042 | ellipsis | deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context | 6 | |
| 5525725855 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses -- to produce a hurried rhythm in the sentence | 7 | |
| 5525731824 | polysendeton | form of asyndeton: deliberate use of many conjunctions -- slow down the rhythm of the sentence | 8 | |
| 5525740786 | alliteration | repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words | 9 | |
| 5525755335 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words | 10 | |
| 5525771738 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses; produces strong emotional effect, especially in speech; establishes marked change in rhythm | 11 | |
| 5525784367 | epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses; produces strong rhythm and emphasis | 12 | |
| 5525795582 | epanalepsis | repetition at the end of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause; can produce strong emotion | 13 | |
| 5525818301 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 14 | |
| 5525822252 | climax | arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance | 15 | |
| 5525833234 | antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 16 | |
| 5525846204 | chiasmus (the criss cross) | reversal of grammatical structure in successive phrases or clauses; does not involve a repetition of words | 17 | |
| 5525859041 | polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root | 18 | |
| 5525864788 | tropes | an expression that deviates from the natural and literal through a change in meaning, often with a pleasing effect, and the device or technique that makes such a change possible | 19 | |
| 5525881485 | metaphor | implied comparison between two things of unlike nature | 20 | |
| 5525886823 | simile | explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature | 21 | |
| 5525890998 | synecdoche | a figure of speech -- a part stands for the whole | 22 | |
| 5525900072 | metonymy | substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant | 23 | |
| 5525904024 | antanaclasis | repetition of a word in two different sense | 24 | |
| 5525907240 | paronomasia | use of words alike in sound, but different in meaning | 25 | |
| 5525911233 | syllepsis | use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs | 26 | |
| 5525917308 | anthimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another | 27 | |
| 5525928627 | periphrasis (antonomasia) | substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or a proper name for a quality associated with the name | 28 | |
| 5525939634 | personification (prosopoeia) | investing abstractions of inanimate objects | 29 | |
| 5525943046 | hyperbole | the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect | 30 | |
| 5525948295 | litotes | deliberate use of understatement | 31 | |
| 5525951618 | rhetorical questions | asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer, but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely | 32 | |
| 5525959095 | irony | use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word | 33 | |
| 5526402532 | onomatopoeia | use of words whose sound echoes the senses of the word | 34 | |
| 5558497319 | oxymoron | the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory | 35 | |
| 5558499052 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth | 36 |
