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| 10563814073 | alliteration | repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence | 0 | |
| 10563821078 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 1 | |
| 10563826247 | anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
| 10563850124 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order | 3 | |
| 10563865306 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 4 | |
| 10563870249 | archaic diction | old fashioned, outdated choice of words | 5 | |
| 10563875863 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 6 | |
| 10563879671 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 7 | |
| 10564735505 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 8 | |
| 10564739350 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 9 | |
| 10564744183 | Inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) | 10 | |
| 10564747976 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 11 | |
| 10564749153 | metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 12 | |
| 10564752891 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 13 | |
| 10564759046 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 14 | |
| 10564764849 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 15 | |
| 10564767069 | Personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea | 16 | |
| 10564770591 | rhetorical question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 17 | |
| 10564777163 | synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 18 | |
| 10564778398 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 19 |
