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| 9163490941 | Idiom | A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light ). | 0 | |
| 9163490942 | Euphemism | A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. | 1 | |
| 9163494495 | Litote | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad ). | 2 | |
| 9163494496 | Meiosis | a euphemistic figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is. | 3 | |
| 9163494497 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 4 | |
| 9163497379 | 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"). | 5 | |
| 9163497380 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 6 | |
| 9163512317 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. | 7 | |
| 9163512318 | Caesura | (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line. | 8 | |
| 9163514336 | Enjambment | (in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 9 | |
| 9163514337 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. | 10 | |
| 9163518489 | 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 | |
| 9163520572 | cacophony | a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds. "a ______________ of deafening alarm bells" | 12 | |
| 9163520573 | euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. | 13 | |
| 9163522485 | villanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 14 | |
| 9163522486 | sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 15 |
