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| 14528829037 | Hyperbole | Exaggerated Statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 0 | |
| 14528829038 | Understatement | Presentation of some thing as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 1 | |
| 14528829039 | Litotes | Ironic understatement using a word that expresses an opposite claim from the saying | 2 | |
| 14528829040 | Antithesis | A person or thing that is opposite of someone or something else | 3 | |
| 14528829041 | Hypophora | Question that is immediately answered | 4 | |
| 14528829042 | Rhetorical question | Question that has no answer | 5 | |
| 14528829043 | Procatalepsis | When the speaker raises an objection to their own argument then immediately answers it | 6 | |
| 14528829044 | Distinctio | When a writer elaborate on the definition of a word to make sure there is no misunderstanding | 7 | |
| 14528829045 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 8 | |
| 14528829046 | Metaphor | Comparison not using like or as | 9 | |
| 14528829047 | Analogy | Comparison between two things for the purpose of an explanation | 10 | |
| 14528829048 | Allusion | A reference to a person place thing or event | 11 | |
| 14528829049 | Eponym | Referring to a famous person to link their attributes with someone else | 12 | |
| 14528829050 | Setentia | A quote or wise saying | 13 | |
| 14528829051 | Exemplum | An example moralizing a story | 14 | |
| 14528829052 | Climax | The most intense part of the story | 15 | |
| 14528829053 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 16 | |
| 14528829054 | Chiasmus | Rhetorical literary figure where words are repeated in reverse order | 17 | |
| 14528829055 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 18 | |
| 14528829056 | Conduplicatio | Repetition of a word from any point in a sentence and placing it at the beginning of the next sentence | 19 | |
| 14528829057 | Metabasis | A brief statement of what has been said and what will follow | 20 | |
| 14528829058 | Parenthesis | Device used to insert additional info without messing up the flow of your writing | 21 | |
| 14528829059 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 22 | |
| 14528829060 | Enumeratio | A list of details about something | 23 | |
| 14528829061 | Antanagoge | Placing a negative point next to a positive one so the negative points are downplayed | 24 | |
| 14528829062 | Epithet | Attaching a descriptive adjective to a noun to bring a scene to life or evoke emotion | 25 | |
| 14528829063 | Asyndeton | Leaves out conjunctions in a list or between classes | 26 | |
| 14528829064 | Polysyndeton | Repetition of conjunctions in close succession | 27 | |
| 14528829065 | Zeugma | When unexpected items in a sentence are linked together by a shared word | 28 | |
| 14528829066 | Synecdoche | When a part is made to represent the whole, or vice versa | 29 | |
| 14528829067 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 30 | |
| 14528829068 | Hyperbaton | Rhetorical device when you arrange the words in your sentence in an unexpected order | 31 | |
| 14528829069 | Aporia | Device used to express doubt about an idea | 32 | |
| 14528829070 | Anaphora | Device where a writer repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses or sentences | 33 | |
| 14528829071 | Epistrophe | Word or phrase repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences | 34 | |
| 14528829072 | Symploce | Word or phrase repeated at the beginning and end of a sentence | 35 | |
| 14528829073 | Amplification | Writers repeating something they said, while adding more detail and info to the original description | 36 | |
| 14528829074 | Personification | Giving a non-human thing human like properties | 37 | |
| 14528829075 | Parataxis | Listing a series of clauses with no conjunctions | 38 |
