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| 8199103719 | Antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. Usually it indicates exact opposites. Antithesis sometimes refers to the negation of the thesis proposed. | 0 | |
| 8199114405 | Apposition | placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first. A literary device in which two elements are placed side by side, with the second element serving to define or modify the first with no word in between. When this device is used, the two elements are said to be in apposition. | 1 | |
| 8199134335 | Asyndeton | A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally: instead of X, Y, and Z... the writer uses X, Y, Z... | 2 | |
| 8199163557 | Flashback/Analepsis | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. | 3 | |
| 8199169824 | Flashforward/Prolepsis | like a flashback, but the opposite, a quick glimpse at what will happen in the future, or is yet to happen. | 4 | |
| 8199176052 | Paradox | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth. | 5 | |
| 8199181814 | Periodic | a sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements, is a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its end. | 6 | |
| 8199190080 | Pun | a "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things. | 7 | |
| 8199197074 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole. | 8 | |
| 8199199704 | 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. | 9 | |
| 8199211483 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together, this consonant sound is usually at the beginning of the sentence. | 10 | |
| 8199218977 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a short passage of verse or prose. | 11 | |
| 8199223527 | Cacophony; Dissonance | harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of euphony. | 12 | |
| 8199229944 | Consonance | repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity, as in boost/best; it can also be seen within several compound words, such as fulfill and ping-pong. | 13 | |
| 8199242573 | Euphony | a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony | 14 | |
| 8199247487 | Lyrical | Songlike; characterized by emotions, subjectivity, and imagination. | 15 | |
| 8199250370 | Rhythm | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. | 16 |
