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| 8003551465 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc | 0 | |
| 8003553236 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | 1 | |
| 8003557764 | Polysyndeton | the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy") | 2 | |
| 8003563080 | Repetition | the action of repeating something that has already been said or written | 3 | |
| 8003566601 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer | 4 | |
| 8003568829 | Sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt | 5 | |
| 8003571467 | Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 6 | |
| 8003574021 | Shift | when speakers or writers alter their style or tone in a piece | 7 | |
| 8003584894 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | 8 | |
| 8003588189 | Synesthesia | the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body | 9 | |
| 8003590532 | Symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract | 10 | |
| 8003595477 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team") | 11 | |
| 8003598781 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 12 | |
| 8003601449 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is | 13 |
