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| 4353752651 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 0 | |
| 4353755191 | isocolon | type of parallel structure that happens when parallel elements are similar in grammatical structure and length | 1 | |
| 4353757484 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure | 2 | |
| 4353765177 | anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order | 3 | |
| 4353765178 | parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | 4 | |
| 4353770030 | apposition | two coordinate elements that are placed side by side, and the second is an explanation/modification of the first | 5 | |
| 4353773360 | ellipsis | deliberate omission of a word or words which are implied by the context | 6 | |
| 4353775509 | asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses | 7 | |
| 4353776737 | polysyndeton | purposeful use of many conjuctions | 8 | |
| 4353778698 | alliteration | repetition of consonants in two or more adjacent words | 9 | |
| 4353782642 | assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words | 10 | |
| 4353783281 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or groups of words in the beginnings of successive clauses | 11 | |
| 4353783912 | epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 12 | |
| 4353788386 | epanalepsis | repetition of a word at the end of a clause that was also the beginning word | 13 | |
| 4353794898 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause | 14 | |
| 4353798376 | climax | arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance | 15 | |
| 4353802851 | antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 16 | |
| 4353805470 | chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses | 17 | |
| 4353809006 | polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root | 18 | |
| 4353809533 | metaphor | implied comparison between 2 things of unlike nature | 19 | |
| 4353813202 | simile | explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature | 20 | |
| 4353814121 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole | 21 | |
| 4353815040 | metonymy | substitution of a suggestive word for what is actually meant | 22 | |
| 4353815672 | antanaclasis | repetition of word in two different senses | 23 | |
| 4353816600 | paronomasia | use of words alike in sound but different in meaning | 24 | |
| 4353817733 | syllepsis | use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words | 25 | |
| 4353820722 | anthimeria | substitution of one part of speech for another | 26 | |
| 4353820723 | periphrasis | substitution of a descriptive word/phrase for a proper name associated with the word | 27 | |
| 4353823083 | litotes | deliberate use of understatement | 28 | |
| 4353825112 | oxymoron | the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory | 29 | |
| 4353825113 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth | 30 |
