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| 7189336025 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | 0 | |
| 7189336026 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | 1 | |
| 7189336027 | antithesis | the presentation of two contrasting ideas. The ideas are balanced by phrase, clause, or paragraphs. "To be or not to be . . ." "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times . . ." "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country . . ." | 2 | |
| 7189336032 | colloquial | informal spoken language or conversation | 3 | |
| 7189336038 | didactic | instructive, designed to teach | 4 | |
| 7189336039 | epistrophe | repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | 5 | |
| 7189336046 | jargon | specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject. E.g. Teachers say "facilitating instruction" and "text dependent questions" | 6 | |
| 7189336047 | juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 7 | |
| 7189336048 | litotes | an understatement used to underscore a greater point; E.g. July 4th is not a dull day. ... like a double negative | 8 | |
| 7189336051 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it ("The pen [writing] is mightier than the sword [war/fighting].") | 9 | |
| 7189336055 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 10 | |
| 7189336056 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but that expresses a truth | 11 | |
| 7189336057 | parallelism | similarity in structure and syntax in a series of related words, phrases, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs that develops balance. E.g. The boy went swimmING, bikING, and sailING this summer. | 12 | |
| 7189336068 | synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword). | 13 | |
| 7189336069 | syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | 14 |
