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| 7284091640 | alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 0 | |
| 7284091641 | allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 1 | |
| 7284091642 | anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses | 2 | |
| 7284091643 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | 3 | |
| 7284091644 | anithero | central character who lacks heroic attributes | 4 | |
| 7284091645 | apostrophe | splits talking to one person and then switches attention to another character | 5 | |
| 7284091646 | direct characterization | tells the audience what the personality of the character is | 6 | |
| 7284091647 | conceit | extended metaphor | 7 | |
| 7284091648 | internal conflict | a struggle that occurs within an individual | 8 | |
| 7284091649 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences | 9 | |
| 7284091650 | foil | a character who acts as a contrast to another character | 10 | |
| 7284091651 | hyberbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 11 | |
| 7284091652 | situational irony | a contrast between what the audience and a character expect and what actually happens | 12 | |
| 7284091653 | litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite | 13 | |
| 7284091654 | extended metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 14 | |
| 7284091655 | mixed metaphor | a metaphor that is used incorrectly by combining two contrasting expressions. | 15 | |
| 7284091656 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 16 | |
| 7284091657 | onomatopoeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named | 17 | |
| 7284091658 | paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | 18 | |
| 7284091659 | parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 19 | |
| 7284091660 | polysyndenton | use of multiple conjunctions in close succession | 20 | |
| 7284091661 | refrain | the repetition of a similar line, phrase or group of lines repeated throughout a poem | 21 | |
| 7284091662 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 22 | |
| 7284091663 | understatement | attributes less importance to a subject | 23 | |
| 7284097649 | pun | play on words | 24 |
