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| 6060599964 | Allusion | an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand | 0 | |
| 6060603614 | Anachronism | an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time | 1 | |
| 6060606691 | Analogy | a comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar | 2 | |
| 6060611541 | Aphorism | A terse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim | 3 | |
| 6060615424 | Apostrophe | a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction | 4 | |
| 6060619947 | Cliche | any expression that has been used to often that is has lost its freshness | 5 | |
| 6060622779 | Epigram | any terse, witty, pointed saying | 6 | |
| 6060625037 | Euphemism | the substitution of a mild term for one more offensive or hurtful | 7 | |
| 6060630033 | Figurative Language | language that contains figures of speech, such as a metaphor, simile, personification, etc. | 8 | |
| 6060633220 | Hyperbole | exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally | 9 | |
| 6060638618 | Kenning | a metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun | 10 | |
| 6060643383 | Litotes | a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement | 11 | |
| 6060649928 | Malapropism | the comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but quite different in meaning | 12 | |
| 6060656078 | Metaphor | the most important and widespread figure of speech in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two | 13 | |
| 6060667533 | Extended Metaphor | an idea sustained throughout the work | 14 | |
| 6060669817 | Dead Metaphor | one that has been used to much it has lost its figurative meaning and is taken literally | 15 | |
| 6060673408 | Mixed Metaphor | a combination of two or more inconsistent metaphors in a single expression | 16 | |
| 6060678611 | Metonymy | figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea | 17 | |
| 6060681772 | Onomatopoeia | the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to | 18 | |
| 6060683409 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression | 19 | |
| 6060686584 | Personification | the technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human | 20 | |
| 6060689783 | Proverb | a short saying that expresses some commonplace truth or bit of folk wisdom | 21 | |
| 6060693370 | Pun | a form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings | 22 | |
| 6060698990 | Simile | a less direct metaphor, using like or as | 23 | |
| 6060700483 | Syllogism | a form of logical reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion | 24 | |
| 6060705814 | Syaesthesia | the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another | 25 | |
| 6060708897 | Synecdoche | figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole | 26 | |
| 6060713675 | Tautology | repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence | 27 | |
| 6060717271 | Understatement | a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than is actually is | 28 |
