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| 4773565654 | Hyperbole | A rhetorical exaggeration... Often accomplished via comparisons, similes and metaphors. | 0 | |
| 4773565655 | Understatement | A statement that describes something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is, or the act of making such statements. | 1 | |
| 4773565656 | Litotes | A deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying it's opposite. | 2 | |
| 4773565657 | Antithesis | A juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas (often, although not always, in parallel structure). | 3 | |
| 4773565658 | Hypophora | A figure of reasoning in which one asks and then immediately answers ones own questions. Reasoning aloud. | 4 | |
| 4773565659 | Rhetorical Question | To affirm or deny a point strongly by asking it as a question. | 5 | |
| 4773565660 | Procatalepsis | Refuting anticipated objections. | 6 | |
| 4773565661 | Distinctio | The explicit definition of or elaboration upon the meaning or meanings of a word or sets of words. | 7 | |
| 4773565662 | Simile | An explicit comparison, often employing "like" or "as". | 8 | |
| 4773565663 | Metaphor | A comparison made by referring to one thing as another. | 9 | |
| 4773565664 | Analogy | A comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way. | 10 | |
| 4773565665 | Allusion | An implied or indirect reference especially in literature; also the use of such references. | 11 | |
| 4773565666 | Eponym | One for whom or which something is or is to be believed to be named. | 12 | |
| 4773565667 | Sententia | One of several terms describing short, pithy sayings. | 13 | |
| 4773565668 | Exemplum | An anecdote or short narrative used to point a moral or sustain an argument. | 14 | |
| 4773565669 | Climax | The arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance, often in parallel structure. | 15 | |
| 4773565670 | Chaismus/Parallelism | The repetition of ideas in inverted order. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses. | 16 | |
| 4773565671 | Conduplicatio/Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word (or phrase) from the previous line, clause or sentence at the beginning of the next. | 17 | |
| 4773565672 | Metabasis | A transitional statement in which one explains what has been and what will be said. | 18 | |
| 4773565673 | Parenthesis | An insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow. | 19 | |
| 4773565674 | Apostrophe | Turning one's speech from one audience to another. Most often, occurs when one addresses oneself to an abstraction, to an inanimate object or to the absent. | 20 | |
| 4773565675 | Enumeratio | Dividing a subject into it's adjuncts, a cause into it's effects or an antecedent into it's consequents. | 21 | |
| 4773565676 | Antanagoge | Putting a positive spin on something that is nevertheless acknowledged to be negative or difficult. | 22 | |
| 4773565677 | Epithet | A characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of a name of a person or thing. | 23 | |
| 4773565678 | Polysyndeton | Employing many conjunctions between clauses often showing the tempo or rhythm. | 24 | |
| 4773565679 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect. | 25 | |
| 4773565680 | Zeugma | A general term describing when one part of speech (often the main verb, but sometimes a noun) governs two or more other parts of a sentence (often in a series). | 26 | |
| 4773565681 | Metonymy | A reference to something or someone by naming one of it's attributes. | 27 | |
| 4773565682 | Synecdoche | A whole represented by naming one of it's parts. | 28 | |
| 4773565683 | Hyperbaton | An inversion of normal word order. A generic term for a variety of figures involving transposition, it is something synonymous with anastrophe. | 29 | |
| 4773565684 | Aporia | Deliberating with oneself as though in doubt over some matter; asking oneself what is the best or appropriate way to approach something. | 30 | |
| 4773565685 | Anaphora | The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences or lines. | 31 | |
| 4773565686 | Epistrophe | Ending lines, phrases, clauses or sentences with the same word. | 32 | |
| 4773565687 | Symploce | The combination of both anaphora and epistrophe. | 33 | |
| 4773565688 | Amplification | An expanded statement. | 34 | |
| 4773565689 | Personification | A reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities. | 35 | |
| 4773565690 | Parataxis | The placing of clauses or phrases one after another without coordinating or subordinating connectives. | 36 |
