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| 5847126085 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 5847131119 | Allusion | A reference to history or literature, including the Bible and mythology | 1 | |
| 5847134923 | Anachronism | Persons, objects, or events placed in the wrong time period | 2 | |
| 5847141300 | Analogy | A comparison between two things to show how they are alike | 3 | |
| 5847152865 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word(s) or phrase throughout all or part of a work for emphasis | 4 | |
| 5851713993 | Apostrophe | A writer or character addressing a person or an idea, or something which cannot respond. | 5 | |
| 5851717751 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds | 6 | |
| 5851721445 | Cacophony | Harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds | 7 | |
| 5851729547 | Caesura | A pause or a break in a line of poetry | 8 | |
| 5851737712 | Catalogue | A list | 9 | |
| 5851739605 | Cliché | An expression that has lost its freshness because of too much repetition | 10 | |
| 5851745635 | Conceit | A shocking comparison between two dissimilar things. usually a metaphor or a simile | 11 | |
| 5851752078 | Consonance | The repetition of final consonant | 12 | |
| 5851760505 | Euphony | Pleasing sounds; opposite of cacophony | 13 | |
| 5851765952 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration used for effect or for humor | 14 | |
| 5851768913 | Verbal Irony | Saying the opposite of what is being meant | 15 | |
| 5851771743 | Dramatic Irony | Occurs when the reader or audience knows something that a character doesn't know, so that the words or actions have meaning about which a character is unaware. | 16 | |
| 5851773865 | Situational Irony | When what actually happens is different from what is expected to happen | 17 | |
| 5851787603 | Kenning | A word or compound word substituted as a synonym for a noun | 18 | |
| 5851798413 | Metaphor/ Direct stated Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things without using the words "Like, as, than, seems, or resembles" | 19 | |
| 5851818250 | Implied Metaphor | The two terms of the comparison are not directly stated | 20 | |
| 5851820312 | Dead Metaphor | A metaphor used so often that it has lost its freshness and intensity | 21 | |
| 5851820313 | Mixed Metaphor | A metaphor which fails because its two parts are incompatible | 22 | |
| 5851834335 | Metonymy | A word or words which substitute something closely related for something,someone,or some place with which it is identified; some sources consider it synonymous with synecdoche | 23 | |
| 5851976099 | Onomatopoeia | Words which suggest or sound like their meanings | 24 | |
| 5851976100 | Oxymoron | A combination of words which are apparently contradictory | 25 | |
| 5851977267 | Paradox | A statement which seems contradictory but is actually true | 26 | |
| 5851977268 | Pathetic Fallacy | A form of personification in which nature is given human emotions, especially to the degree that it becomes illogical or even absurd for nature to have such emotions. | 27 | |
| 5851979211 | Personification | Giving human traits to something non-human | 28 | |
| 5851979212 | Simile | A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like, as, than, seems or resembles" | 29 | |
| 5851980254 | Synecdoche | Use of a part to represent the whole; some sources consider it synonymous with metonymy | 30 | |
| 5851982239 | Trope | A figure of speech involving a "turn" or change of sense- the use of a word in a sense other than the literal; includes metaphor, simile, irony and paradox. | 31 | |
| 5852084520 | Understatement | A statement that says less than is meant; deliberately down- playing something for the purpose of emphasis, humor or irony. | 32 |
