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| 12754706849 | Anaphora | the repetition of the same word | 0 | |
| 12754706850 | Anastrophe | word not in the right place | 1 | |
| 12754706851 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions | 2 | |
| 12754706852 | Apostrophe | address to someone or something not present; vocative case | 3 | |
| 12754706853 | Chiasmus | ABBA word order | 4 | |
| 12754706854 | Enjambment | delay of the final word or phrase of a sentence to the beginning of the following line | 5 | |
| 12754706855 | Hendiadys | large scale to smaller scale—Italy to Tiber, etc. | 6 | |
| 12754706856 | Hyperbaton | Words that naturally belong to one another are separated for emphasis or effect | 7 | |
| 12754706857 | Hyperbole | exaggeration, emphatic overstatement | 8 | |
| 12754706858 | Hysteron proteron | when an event is reversed—ex. "I put my shoes & socks on" | 9 | |
| 12754706859 | Litotes | deliberate understatement | 10 | |
| 12754706860 | Metaphor | a comparison in which one thing is said to be another | 11 | |
| 12754706861 | Metonymy | one word closely related to another used to suggest the other word, ex. The Crown had absolute power in the Middle Ages | 12 | |
| 12754706862 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe | 13 | |
| 12754706863 | Personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects | 14 | |
| 12754706864 | Polysyndeton | use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some may be excessive—ex. "et"s and "que"s | 15 | |
| 12754706865 | Simile | figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though | 16 | |
| 12754706866 | Synchesis | ABAB word order | 17 | |
| 12754706867 | Syncope | the omission of sounds or letters from a word; noun is always genitive, and verb is perfect—v,s,u,x before the -ere | 18 | |
| 12754706868 | Synecdoche | supposed to stand for something bigger | 19 | |
| 12754706869 | Tmesis | Separation of one word into two parts (in Latin this is always the separation of a compound word) | 20 | |
| 12754706876 | Transferred Epithet | 21 | ||
| 12754706870 | Pleonasm | unnecessary words to convey something already understood; using "voce" before speaking | 22 | |
| 12754706871 | Ellipsis | when word is missing "est" | 23 | |
| 12754706872 | Aposiopesis | a break in speech; side note | 24 | |
| 12754706873 | Polyptoton | same word, in different forms | 25 | |
| 12754706874 | Synizesis | when you change a vowel from long to short (usually i to e) | 26 | |
| 12754706875 | Zeugma | a word serves for two different purposes |  | 27 |
| 12754706877 | Juxtaposition | 28 |
