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| 15953303717 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 0 | |
| 15953305937 | dead metaphor | a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid | 1 | |
| 15953308315 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 2 | |
| 15953313598 | lechery | unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity | 3 | |
| 15953315775 | prattler | someone who speaks in a childish way | 4 | |
| 15953317236 | ulcerous | corrupt, rotting | 5 | |
| 15953319575 | brindle | having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring | 6 | |
| 15953328012 | cosmic irony | Type of irony where it seems that God or fate is manipulating events so as to inspire false hopes, which are inevitably dashed. | 7 | |
| 15953330720 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 8 | |
| 15953331670 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 9 | |
| 15953332931 | situational irony | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. | 10 |
