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9014046881AntithesisJuxaposition of contrasting ideas - "What if I am rich, another is poor"0
9014054785AnastropheInversion of natural word order - "As not what your country can do for you, ask what ..."1
9014064396AsyndetonOmission of conjuctions between INDEPENDENT CLAUSES - "I came, I saw, I conquered"2
9014079183Brachylogiatype of asyndeton that omits conjucntions between single words or phrases (dependent) - "bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend.."3
9014096265Epanorthosis"Correction", writer emphasizes idea by changing idea mid sentence - "They deserved - no, they earned - speical rights"4
9014110289AlliterationRepetition of initial consonant sounds - "Fire-Fangled Feathers Dangle Down"5
9014118654Assonancerepetition of same vowel sounds - "large, dark, hands"6
9014128863Anaphorarepetition of word or group of words at beggginning of successive clauses7
9014135761EpistropheRepetition of same word or word group at END of successive cluases (reverse anaphora)8
9014143697EpanalepsisRepetition at end of clause word that occurred at beginning of the clause9
9014158134AnadiplosisRepetition of the last word of one clause at beginning of following clause - "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate...."10
9014169727PolyptotonRepetition of word derived from same root11
9014185289AnacoluthonLack 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
9014200917SimileLike or As!13
9014202575SynechdocheFigure of speech where a part stands for a whole - "Let two summers whither pride" (summers represent a whole year)14
9014213641MetonymySubstitution of some attribute or word for that is actually meant -"The white house" (stands for the entire administration)15
9014227951AntanaclasisRepetition of a word in two different senses - "Your arguement is sound, nothing but sound."16
9014243041Paronomasia(Pun), words that sound alike but different meaning17
9014250172AnthimeriaSubstitution of one part of speech for another - "Me, dictionarying heavily"18
9014279380HyperboleDeliberate exaggeration19
9014287396LitotesDeliberate understatement20
9014291407Oxymoronself-contradictory phrase21
9026558336PolysyndetonDeliberate use of many conjunctions - "and a green time and an orange time"22

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