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| 4873302639 | didactic | Writing or speech that has an instructive purpose or a lesson; often associated with a dry, pompous presentation | 0 | |
| 4873308056 | dialect | The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group | 1 | |
| 4873309323 | elegy | A poem or prose that laments, or meditates upon the death of a person | 2 | |
| 4873309324 | epistrophe | In rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences | 3 | |
| 4873310690 | epitaph | Writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone | 4 | |
| 4873311956 | eulogy | A speech or written passage in praise of a person; an oration in honor of a deceased person | 5 | |
| 4873311957 | homily | A sermon, but more contemporary uses include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual life | 6 | |
| 4873313830 | isocolon | Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length | 7 | |
| 4873314958 | jargon | Specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group | 8 | |
| 4873314959 | juxtaposition | The location of one thing adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose | 9 | |
| 4873317385 | litotes | A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement | 10 | |
| 4873317386 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate | 11 | |
| 4873321307 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements | 12 | |
| 4873322985 | paradox | A statement that seems contradictory but may probably be true | 13 | |
| 4873324806 | parallel structure | The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. In prose, recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that their ideas are equal in importance. | 14 |
