6699870905 | Apostrophe | speech to an inanimate object (controls you) | 0 | |
6699929313 | Allteration | repetition of inital consonant sound | 1 | |
6699940216 | Assonance | repetition of the vowel sound | 2 | |
6699943673 | Consonance | repetition of the consonance sound | 3 | |
6699956617 | Caesura | pregnant pause, piphanic moment | 4 | |
6699963995 | Asyndeton | the absence of conjunctions | 5 | |
6699993648 | Polysyndeton | the addition of conjunctions when it is not necessary, | 6 | |
6700016342 | Synecdoche | something that is part of a whole (i.e. all hands on deck; nice threads) | 7 | |
6700092530 | Metonymy | symbol that represents a larger idea (i.e. the crown) | 8 | |
6700125358 | Anacoluthon | pregant pause in prose | 9 | |
6700134258 | Litotes | double negative, underwhelming, muted affectio | 10 | |
6700155167 | Telegraph Sentence (Prose) | shorter than 5 words | 11 | |
6700162809 | Short Sentence (P) | 5 words | 12 | |
6700166246 | Medium sentence (P) | 18 to 29 | 13 | |
6700169150 | Long | 30 or more | 14 | |
6700172103 | epithet | a name or title given in which the title personifies the object | 15 | |
6700180598 | pathetic fallacy | projecting the emotions of the speaker on an inanimate object or objects | 16 | |
6700216723 | Internal Monologue | used with Italics | 17 | |
6700218566 | euphemism | the use of pleasent expression in place of a harsh one | 18 |
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