9014046881 | Antithesis | Juxaposition of contrasting ideas - "What if I am rich, another is poor" | ![]() | 0 |
9014054785 | Anastrophe | Inversion of natural word order - "As not what your country can do for you, ask what ..." | ![]() | 1 |
9014064396 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjuctions between INDEPENDENT CLAUSES - "I came, I saw, I conquered" | ![]() | 2 |
9014079183 | Brachylogia | type of asyndeton that omits conjucntions between single words or phrases (dependent) - "bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend.." | 3 | |
9014096265 | Epanorthosis | "Correction", writer emphasizes idea by changing idea mid sentence - "They deserved - no, they earned - speical rights" | 4 | |
9014110289 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds - "Fire-Fangled Feathers Dangle Down" | ![]() | 5 |
9014118654 | Assonance | repetition of same vowel sounds - "large, dark, hands" | ![]() | 6 |
9014128863 | Anaphora | repetition of word or group of words at beggginning of successive clauses | ![]() | 7 |
9014135761 | Epistrophe | Repetition of same word or word group at END of successive cluases (reverse anaphora) | ![]() | 8 |
9014143697 | Epanalepsis | Repetition at end of clause word that occurred at beginning of the clause | ![]() | 9 |
9014158134 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at beginning of following clause - "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate...." | 10 | |
9014169727 | Polyptoton | Repetition of word derived from same root | ![]() | 11 |
9014185289 | Anacoluthon | Lack of implied sequence within a sentence - "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... the pint is you're not gonna fool me" | 12 | |
9014200917 | Simile | Like or As! | 13 | |
9014202575 | Synechdoche | Figure of speech where a part stands for a whole - "Let two summers whither pride" (summers represent a whole year) | 14 | |
9014213641 | Metonymy | Substitution of some attribute or word for that is actually meant -"The white house" (stands for the entire administration) | 15 | |
9014227951 | Antanaclasis | Repetition of a word in two different senses - "Your arguement is sound, nothing but sound." | 16 | |
9014243041 | Paronomasia | (Pun), words that sound alike but different meaning | ![]() | 17 |
9014250172 | Anthimeria | Substitution of one part of speech for another - "Me, dictionarying heavily" | 18 | |
9014279380 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration | ![]() | 19 |
9014287396 | Litotes | Deliberate understatement | ![]() | 20 |
9014291407 | Oxymoron | self-contradictory phrase | ![]() | 21 |
9026558336 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions - "and a green time and an orange time" | 22 |
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