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| 4802949391 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This device is a deliberate form of repetition and helps makes the writer's point more coherent. | 0 | |
| 4802949394 | Asyndeton | A series of words separated by commas (with no conjunction), "I came, I saw, I conquered." The parts of the sentence are emphasized equally; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. | 1 | |
| 4802949395 | Catharsis | The process by which an unhealthy emotional state produced by an imbalance of feelings is corrected and emotional health is restored. | 2 | |
| 4802949396 | Chiasmus | Arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of X Y Y X. Often short and summarizes a main idea, "ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." | 3 | |
| 4802949397 | Elliptical | Sentence structure which leaves out something in the second half. Usually, there is a subject-verb-object combination in the first half of the sentence, and the second half of the sentence will repeat the structure but omit the verb and use a comma to indicate the ellipsed material. | 4 | |
| 4802949398 | Epithet | A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great. Also used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title or a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln. | 5 | |
| 4802949401 | Inversion | Variation of the normal word order (subject first, then verb, then complement) which puts a modifier of the verb as first in the sentence. The element that appears first is emphasized more than the subject. | 6 | |
| 4802949404 | Dead Metaphor | So overused that it's original impact has been lost. | 7 | |
| 4802949405 | Extended Metaphor | One developed at length and involves several points of comparison. | 8 | |
| 4802949406 | Mixed Metaphor | When two metaphors are jumpled together, often illogically. | 9 | |
| 4802949408 | Motif | A frequently recurrent character, incident, or concept in literature. | 10 | |
| 4802949409 | Onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose pronunciation suggests its meaning. "Buzz," "hiss," "slam," and "pop" are commonly used examples. | 11 | |
| 4802949410 | Oxymoron | A rhetorical antithesis. Juxtaposing two contradictory terms, like "wise fool" or "deafening silence." | 12 | |
| 4802949411 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory statement or situation which is actually true. This rhetorical device is often used for emphasis or simply to attract attention. | 13 | |
| 4802949412 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements. "Across the stream, beyond the clearing, from behind a fallen tree, the lion emerged." | 14 |
