10946651552 | Assonance | When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, start with different consonant sounds | 0 | |
10946687184 | Bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity | 1 | |
10946706409 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 2 | |
10946709452 | cliche | A statement that has been overused to the extent that its freshness has worn off | 3 | |
10946721017 | Climax | the point of highest interest in a literary work | 4 | |
10946727611 | Colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 5 | |
10946731059 | Conduplication | when an important word is taken from anywhere in one sentence or phrase and repeats it at the beginning of the next sentence or phrase | 6 | |
10946736696 | Connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 7 | |
10946741737 | Consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 8 | |
10946748812 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement or declaration | 9 |
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