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| 7242348386 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one | 0 | |
| 7242348387 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 1 | |
| 7242349676 | Allusion | A reference to other literature or to historical events | 2 | |
| 7242349677 | Amplification | the action of enlarging upon or adding detail to a story or statement | 3 | |
| 7242356476 | Anacoluthon | sentence or construction that lacks grammatical sequence | 4 | |
| 7242358810 | Anadiplosis | is the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause | 5 | |
| 7242360888 | Analogy | a resemblance supposed to exist. An inference that things alike in one respect are alike in others. | 6 | |
| 7242362379 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 7 | |
| 7242364372 | Anecdote | Individual incidents told as being striking or interesting | 8 | |
| 7242368787 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 9 | |
| 7242369980 | Antithesis | two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 10 | |
| 7242372117 | Chiasmus | words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | 11 | |
| 7242374018 | Colloquial diction | words or expressions used in ordinary language by common people | 12 | |
| 7242375723 | Ellipsis | the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues. | 13 | |
| 7242380926 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 14 | |
| 7242381733 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 15 | |
| 7242383783 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which conscious exaggeration is used without the intent of literal persuasion. | 16 | |
| 7242386385 | Inversion | Reversing the normal order of sentence parts. Sometimes used for emphasis or balance, it can also be used to force a rhyme or meter and may be to artificial to be effective. | 17 | |
| 7242388705 | Irony | The verbal use of exaggeration, depreciation or flat contradiction to indicate that something quite different from what is literally said is actually meant or that what is expected or deserved will not be granted \ | 18 | |
| 7242390531 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 19 | |
| 7242392336 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 20 | |
| 7242395114 | Loose sentence | is a type of sentence in which the main idea is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. | 21 | |
| 7242396846 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 22 | |
| 7242398547 | Mesodiplosis | Repetition of a word in the middle of every line of clause. | 23 | |
| 7242400299 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 24 | |
| 7242401636 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 25 | |
| 7242402871 | Paradox | a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities. | 26 | |
| 7242405566 | Parallel Structure | is repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. | 27 | |
| 7242407701 | Parenthesis | a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage | 28 | |
| 7242409116 | Polysyndeton | is a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect | 29 | |
| 7242410348 | pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. | 30 | |
| 7242412883 | Syllogism | an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions, each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion | 31 | |
| 7242415489 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 32 | |
| 7242416241 | Tricolon | is a rhetorical term for a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses | 33 | |
| 7242419884 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 34 | |
| 7242421494 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | 35 |
