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| 2260208792 | Alliteration | The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in several consecutive or neighboring words. | 0 | |
| 2260208793 | Alliteration Example | Sally sells seashells by the seashore | 1 | |
| 2260231740 | Allusion | A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing | 2 | |
| 2260237265 | Allusion Example | So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at APPOMATTOX. So it was last week in SELMA, ALABAMA. | 3 | |
| 2260246621 | Analogy | A comparison between two things intended to show how they are alike | 4 | |
| 2260255177 | Analogy Example | "President Roosevelt showed us that a man who could barely lift himself out of a wheelchair could still lift a nation out of despair" | 5 | |
| 2260262383 | Anadiplosis | Repetition at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences at or near the beginning of the next | 6 | |
| 2260272205 | Anadiplosis Example | They call for you. The general who became A SLAVE; THE SLAVE who became A GLADIATOR; THE GLADIATOR who defied an emperor; striking story. | 7 | |
| 2260280213 | Anecdote | A short amount of a particular incident or an event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature | 8 | |
| 2260282705 | Anecdote Example | "What is that? Bells, dogs again! Is it a dream? I sob and cry. See! The door opens, fur-clad men Rush to my rescue; frail am I; Feeble and dying, dazed and glad. There is the pistol where it dropped. "Boys, it was hard — but I'm not mad. . . . Look at the clock — it stopped, it stopped. Carry me out. The heavens smile. See! There's an arch of gold above. Now, let me rest a little while — Looking to God and Love . . .and Love . . ." | 9 | |
| 2260295498 | Antithesis Example | They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; TO REGAIN FAITH WHEN THERE SEEMS TO BE LITTLE CAUSE FOR FAITH; TO CREATE HOPE WHEN HOPE BECOMES FORLORN. | 10 | |
| 2260301072 | Antithesis | A device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 11 | |
| 2260304524 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words | 12 | |
| 2260309165 | Assonance Example | "Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came." | 13 | |
| 2260313174 | Asyndeton | The deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 14 | |
| 2260315865 | Asyndeton Example | We've seen THE UNFURLING OF FLAGS, THE LIGHTING OF CANDLES, THE GIVING OF BLOOD, THE SAYING OF PRAYERS— in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. | 15 | |
| 2260320783 | Connotative Diction | Words chosen deliberately for the feelings and attitudes associated with them | 16 | |
| 2260322144 | Connotative Diction Example | Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for VICTORY; that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed; that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed; that the very obsession of your public SERVICE must be: DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY." | 17 | |
| 2260339594 | Details | Facts, revealed by the author or speaker, that support the tone or purpose of a text. | 18 | |
| 2260346695 | Details Example | Every device of which human ingenuity is capable, has been used to deny this right. The Negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong, or the hour is late, or the official in charge is absent. And if he persists and, if he manages to present himself to the registrar, he may be disqualified because he did not spell out his middle name, or because he abbreviated a word on the application. | 19 | |
| 2260355822 | Oxymoron | A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression | 20 | |
| 2260359152 | Oxymoron Example | Modest Magnificence; Jumbo Shrimp; Known Secret; Deafening Secret | 21 | |
| 2260363304 | Paradox | A statement containing contradictory elements that may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd but it actually had a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth | 22 | |
| 2260371915 | Paradox Example | We dare not tempt them with weakness. FOR ONLY WHEN OUR ARMS ARE SUFFICIENT BEYOND DOUBT CAN WE BE CERTAIN BEYOND DOUBT THAT THEY WILL NEVER BE EMPLOYED. | 23 | |
| 2260378671 | Parallelism | A grammatical or structural arrangement of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs so that elements of equal importance are equally developed and similarly phrased. | 24 | |
| 2260387170 | Parallelism Example | Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or I'll, that we shall PAY ANY PRICE, BEAR ANY BURDEN, MEET ANY HARDSHIP, SUPPORT ANY FRIEND, OPPOSE ANY FOE, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. | 25 | |
| 2260392829 | Personification | A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 26 | |
| 2260395187 | Personification Example | And let every other power know that THIS HEMISPHERE INTENDS TO REMAIN THE MASTER OF ITS OWN HOUSE. | 27 | |
| 2260404299 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis— to highlight quantity or mass of detail or to create a flowing, continuous sentence pattern; it slows the pace of the slowness | 28 | |
| 2260414955 | Polysyndeton Example | By seven o' clock the orchestra has arrived— no thin five piece affair but a whole pit full of oboes AND trombones AND saxophones AND viols AND coronets AND piccolos AND low AND high drums. | 29 | |
| 2260235987 | Epistrophe | Repetition at the endj of successive clauses, phrases, and sentences | 30 | |
| 2260230799 | Epistrophe Example | "With this faith we will be able to work TOGETHER, to pray TOGETHER, to struggle TOGETHER, to go to jail TOGETHER, to stand up for freedom TOGETHER, knowing that we will be free one day" | 31 | |
| 2260265430 | Euphemism | The use of a word or phrase that is less expressive or direct but considered less distasteful or offensive than another | 32 | |
| 2260270845 | Euphemism Example | "Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of CREATIVE SUFFERING." | 33 | |
| 2260313221 | Imagery | Words or phrases that appeal to the senses, used to describe persons, objections, actions, feelings, and ideas | 34 | |
| 2260280159 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration used for either serious or comic effect | 35 | |
| 2260306885 | Imagery Example | "As I listened to those songs, in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, BENDING UNDER SOGGY PACKS, on man a weary march FROM DRIPPING DUSK TO DRIZZLING DAWN, SLOGGING ANKLE-DEEP THROUGH THE MIRE OF SHELL-SHOCKED ROADS, to form grimly for the attack, BLUE-LIPPED, COVERED WITH SLUDGE AND MUD, CHILLED BY THE WIND AND RAIN, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God." | 36 | |
| 2260341373 | Irony | The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | 37 | |
| 2260366600 | Jargon | The language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group | 38 | |
| 2260404443 | Juxtaposition | A device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, often creating an effect of surprise and wit | 39 | |
| 2260421590 | Litotes | A type of understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 40 | |
| 2260429642 | Litotes Example | Saying: you wont be sorry ; not bad | 41 | |
| 2260437099 | Metaphor | "And, If A BEACHED OF COOPERATION MAY PUSH BACK THE JUNGLE OF SUSPICION, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor..." | 42 | |
| 2260411527 | Juxtaposition Example | "There, long-suffering men and women PEACEFULLY PROTESTED the denial of their rights as Americans. Many were BRUTALLY ASSAULTED." | 43 | |
| 2260360870 | Jargon Example | " in a sense we've come to our nations capital TO CASH A CHECK. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the Declaration of Independence, THEY WERE SIGNING A PROMISSORY NOTE to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men- yes, black men as well as white men- would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. IT IS OBVIOUS TODAY THAT AMERICA HAS DEFAULTED ON THIS PROMISSORY NOTE INSOFAR AS HER CITIZENS OF COLOR ARE CONCERNED. INSTEAD OF HONORING THIS SACRED OBLIGATIONS, AMERICA HAS GIVEN THE NEGRO PEOPLE A BAD CHECK, A CHECK THAT HAS COME BACK MARKED 'INSUFFICIENTFUMDS.'" | 44 | |
| 2260335675 | Irony Example | " He may be asked to recite the entire constitution, or explain the most complex provisions of State law. AND EVEN A COLLEGE DEGREE CANNOT BE USED TO PROVE THAT HE CAN READ AND WRITE." | 45 | |
| 2260298090 | Hyperbole Example | " I have a dream that one day EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED, EVERY HILL AND MOUNTAIN SHALL BE MADE LOW, THE ROUGH PLACES WILL BE MADE PLAIN, AND THE CROOKED PLACES WILL BE MADE STRAIGHT, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." | 46 |
