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| 4770844536 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 0 | |
| 4770844537 | Litotes | A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite; type of meiosis | 1 | |
| 4770844538 | Logical fallacy | A mistake in reasoning | 2 | |
| 4770844539 | Meiosis | An understatement. | 3 | |
| 4770844540 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another of a larger scope with which it is closely associated | 4 | |
| 4770844541 | Motif | A recurring theme, subject or idea | 5 | |
| 4770844542 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 6 | |
| 4770844543 | Pacing | The movement of a literary piece from one point or section to another | 7 | |
| 4770844544 | Parable | A short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory | 8 | |
| 4770844545 | Parallelism | Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | 9 | |
| 4770844546 | Pathos | The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience; an appeal to emotion that can be used as a mean to persuade | 10 | |
| 4770844547 | Pedantic | Scholarly writing that borders on lecturing | 11 | |
| 4770844548 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end | 12 | |
| 4770844549 | Reductio ad absurdum | Latin for "to reduce to the absurd." This is a technique useful in creating a comic effect and is also an argumentative technique. It is considered a rhetorical fallacy because it reduces an argument to an either/or choice | 13 | |
| 4770844550 | Rhetoric | From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively. | 14 | |
| 4770844551 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 15 | |
| 4770844552 | 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). | 16 | |
| 4770844553 | Tricolon | Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. | 17 | |
| 4770844554 | Zeugma | Artfully using a single verb to refer to two different objects in an ungrammatical but striking way, or artfully using an adjective to refer to two separate nouns, even though the adjective would logically only be appropriate for one of the two. | 18 |
