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| 4992868160 | alliteration | repetition of same sound beginning several words of syllables in a sequence | 0 | |
| 4992876717 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art | 1 | |
| 4992882330 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
| 4992889055 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | 3 | |
| 4992890600 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 4 | |
| 5001474211 | archaic diction | old-fashioned choice of words | 5 | |
| 5001481326 | cumulative sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 6 | |
| 5001486349 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 7 | |
| 5001494885 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores or calls to action | 8 | |
| 5001498724 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 9 | |
| 5001516745 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 10 | |
| 5001521538 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasis similarities or differences | 11 | |
| 5001538899 | metaphor | figure of speech that compares two things without using 'like' or 'as' | 12 | |
| 5001543899 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition or words that seem to contradict one another | 13 | |
| 5001548066 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 14 | |
| 5001554253 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 15 | |
| 5001558259 | personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea | 16 | |
| 5001565349 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather for the purpose of getting an answer | 17 | |
| 5001581691 | synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 18 | |
| 5001584372 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 19 |
