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| 5406891847 | hyperbole | exaggerating some part of your statement in order to give it emphasis or focus | 0 | |
| 5406897548 | understatement | when the force of a descriptive statement is less than what one would normally expect | 1 | |
| 5406911112 | litotes | to emphasize a point by using a word opposite to the condition | 2 | |
| 5406920016 | antithesis | to make use of a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas | 3 | |
| 5406927266 | hypophora | the technique of asking a question, then proceeding to answer it | 4 | |
| 5406934945 | rhetorical question | a question in which the answer is merely implied | 5 | |
| 5776866084 | procatalepsis | the strategy of anticipating readers' concerns and directly addressing their objections. | 6 | |
| 5776877143 | distinctio | writer elaborates on the definition of a word so that there is no misunderstanding | 7 | |
| 5776883644 | simile | device in which the writer compares two things using like or as | 8 | |
| 5776887741 | metaphor | compares two things like a simile, but speaks of one thing as if it were another | 9 | |
| 5776891760 | analogy | a comparison that makes use of something already well known to explain something less well known | 10 | |
| 7696056338 | dead metaphor | an expression that once had figurative value but is now accepted as literal truth. | 11 |
