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| 7421561375 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant letters (or sounds) in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases | 0 | |
| 7421565797 | Alliteration Example | Example: "Somewhere at this very moment a child is being born in America. Let it be our cause to give that child a happy home, a healthy family, and a hopeful future." -- Bill Clinton, 1992 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address | 1 | |
| 7421568636 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs | 2 | |
| 7421572495 | Anaphora Example | Example: "We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community." -- Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic Convention Keynote Address | 3 | |
| 7421573931 | Anecdote | Short and amusing or interesting account depicting a real incident or person used to support a speaker's argument | 4 | |
| 7421579339 | Ad Hominem | Logical fallacy in which a writer attacks an opponent's character | 5 | |
| 7421587101 | Expletive | Figure of emphasis in which a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal speech, is used to lend emphasis to the words on either side of the figure. | 6 | |
| 7421593383 | Asyndeton | Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or causes. | 7 | |
| 7421597376 | Oxymoron | Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory; a TWO WORD paradox; two words with contrary or apparently contradictory meanings occurring next to each other, and, which, nonetheless, evoke some measure of truth; the figure conjures a new way of seeing or understanding, a novel meaning. | 8 | |
| 7421600547 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics. | 9 | |
| 7421603580 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. | 10 | |
| 7421605933 | Antithesis Example | Example: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!" -- Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream | 11 | |
| 7421615994 | Parallelism | Making two or more words, phrases, or clauses equal in part of speech or grammatical structure | 12 | |
| 7421617934 | Parallelism Example | Example: We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -- in English, Hebrew, and Arabic." George W. Bush, 9-2001 Address to the Nation on Terrorism | 13 | |
| 7421621837 | Non Sequitur | An argument in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises | 14 | |
| 7421627053 | Hyperbole | Intentional and extreme exaggeration. | 15 | |
| 7421631521 | Polysyndeton | Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses. | 16 | |
| 7421633972 | Enumeratio | Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something | 17 | |
| 7421637070 | Rhetorical Question | A question that is asked merely for effect with no obvious answer expected | 18 | |
| 7421639364 | Diction | Word choice | 19 | |
| 7421642026 | Imagery | Word pictures designed to appeal to the senses | 20 | |
| 7421650234 | Antithesis | A seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may actually express some truth | 21 | |
| 7421652483 | Syntax | Sentence length, type, and structure | 22 | |
| 7421655796 | Concession | Acknowledgement of other points of view in an argument by yielding or compromising in some way | 23 |
