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| 5164079933 | Repetition | a word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity | 0 | |
| 5164081261 | Rhetorical Question | a question that does not expect an explicit answer | 1 | |
| 5164083215 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing, but that is often in appropriate in formal writing | 2 | |
| 5164087178 | Allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers | 3 | |
| 5164095051 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 4 | |
| 5164101583 | Anecdote | a very short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic | 5 | |
| 5164105095 | Imagery | description that focuses on the five senses | 6 | |
| 5164106642 | Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration | 7 | |
| 5164107814 | Understatement | when a speaker or writer makes something seem less important than it truly is | 8 | |
| 5164110284 | Polysyndeton | use of coordinating conjunctions like "and", "or", "but" and "nor" to join successive words, phrases or clauses in such a way that these conjunctions are even used where they might have been omitted | 9 | |
| 5164118792 | Asydeton | words in a list are separated by commas and no conjunctions are used to join the words in a list | 10 | |
| 5164124270 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure. the contrast may be in words or idea or both | 11 | |
| 5164131610 | Oxymoron | the joining of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory | 12 | |
| 5164133888 | Paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth | 13 |
