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| 7649487472 | Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as | 0 | |
| 7649490092 | Simile | A common figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as like, as, appears, and seems | 1 | |
| 7649494233 | Irony | A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true | 2 | |
| 7649497713 | Metonymy | A type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject | 3 | |
| 7649504510 | Apostrophe | An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | 4 | |
| 7649508399 | Hyperbole | A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true | 5 | |
| 7649513078 | Synecdoche | A kind of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole | 6 | |
| 7649519103 | Assonance | The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same | 7 | |
| 7649521674 | Enjambement | In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning | 8 | |
| 7649523413 | Doggerel | A derogatory term used to describe poetry whose subject is rite and whose rhythm and tones are monotonously heavy-handed | 9 | |
| 7649526858 | Zeugma | Two sentences combined with a common noun or verb | 10 | |
| 7649528510 | Epigram | A brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point | 11 | |
| 7649530510 | Parallelism | Similar sentence structure in a writing | 12 | |
| 7649532166 | Eschatology | Literature that deals with the end of time | 13 | |
| 7649532167 | Imagery | A word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions | 14 | |
| 7649549939 | Allusion | A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature | 15 |
