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| 1853716863 | paradox | seemingly contradictory statement that is shown to be true Ex. She makes the black night bright by smiling on it | 0 | |
| 1853716864 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last words of one line or clause to begin the next. Ex. For your brother and sister-in-law had no sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked by they loved, no sooner loved by they sighed. | 1 | |
| 1853716865 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 2 | |
| 1853716866 | pun | a play on words that capitalizes on a similarity in spelling and/or pronunciation between words with different meanings Ex. "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man" Romeo and Juliet | 3 | |
| 1853716867 | allusion | an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. | 4 | |
| 1853716868 | scheme | a deviation from the ordinary pattern or arrangement of words | 5 | |
| 1853716869 | imagery | the use of language or figures of speech that appeal to the senses | 6 | |
| 1853716870 | periphrasis | also known as circumlocution. To go around the answer to explain it. | 7 | |
| 1853716871 | simile | a comparison between two unlike things where one is likened to the other using "like" or "as" | 8 | |
| 1853716872 | details | concrete details that allow others to share the writer's sensory experiences | 9 | |
| 1853716873 | ellipsis | the omission of an easily supplied word Ex. "And he to England shall along with you." | 10 | |
| 1853716874 | analogy | reasoning or arguing from parallel cases | 11 | |
| 1853716875 | antimetabole | inverting the order of repeated words to sharpen their sense or contrast they ideas they convey or both Ex. "I pretty, and my saying apt? Or I apt, and my saying pretty?" | 12 | |
| 1853716876 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas often in parallel structure Ex. "Neither one helped her, nor did they hurt her." | 13 | |
| 1853716877 | oxymoron | a witty paradoxical statement Ex. fast asleep, jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly | 14 | |
| 1853716878 | appositive | a noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately to define or amplify its meaning Ex. "It is important that the student, who comes to school each day, completes his homework." | 15 | |
| 1853716879 | climax | mount by degrees through linked words and parallel structure Ex. "When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world." Barack Obama | 16 | |
| 1853716880 | isocolon | parallel elements with similar lengths (syllables) Ex. His purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious and to confound the scrupulous. | 17 | |
| 1853716881 | synecdoche | Synecdoche -a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole, or the whole represents the part Ex. Referring to a boat as a sail | 18 | |
| 1853716882 | parallelism | Parallelism - similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words Ex. He tried to make the law clear, precise and equitable. | 19 | |
| 1853716883 | apostrophe | Apostrophe - to break of a discourse to address some person or personified thing either present or absent | 20 | |
| 1853716884 | trope | a deviation from the ordinary and principle function of a word | 21 | |
| 1853716885 | transition | Transition/segue - a statement that improves flow from one paragraph to the next. A good transition reaches backwards, telling the reader where you've been, as the grounds for making a subsequent move forward. | 22 | |
| 1853716886 | polysyndenton | Polysyndenton - use of a conjunction between each clause Ex. "Most motor-cars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and petrol and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday." Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 23 | |
| 1853716887 | irony | oxymoron and paradox are examples of irony | 24 | |
| 1853716888 | metonomy | A figure of speech in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly associated with it. Ex. Calling the monarch "the Crown" | 25 | |
| 1853716889 | epistrophe | the repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses Ex. They saw no evil, spoke no evil, and heard no evil. | 26 | |
| 1853716890 | listing | a statement that offers three points and provides a section defining each later (sloppier form of thesis) | 27 | |
| 1853716891 | metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things where one is said to be the other | 28 | |
| 1853716892 | symbol | something that represents something else | 29 | |
| 1853716893 | motif | a recurring image, character type, subject, detail that represents something else | 30 | |
| 1853716894 | archtype | the original model from which something is made or developed. Often times this is a character | 31 | |
| 1853716895 | personification | an animal or inanimate object is given human characteristics | 32 | |
| 1853716896 | anaphora | repetition of the same word at the beginning of successive clauses or verses Ex. "You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression...there comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being thrown across the abyss of humiliation" | 33 | |
| 1853716897 | epanalepsis | Repetition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word or phrase with which it began Ex. "Always Low Prices. Always." Walmart slogan | 34 | |
| 1853716898 | parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit into a sentence complete in itself Ex. It is important that the student (who comes each day) completes his homework. | 35 | |
| 1853716899 | asyndenton | omission of conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses Ex. "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." Jack Kerouac | 36 |
