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| 12746346675 | Aphorism | a concise, pithy statement of an opinion or a general truth. ("power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"). | 0 | |
| 12746386392 | malapropism | the unintentional use of a word that resembles the word intended but that has a very different meaning ("he was a man of great stature"). | 1 | |
| 12746398931 | circumlocution | talking around a subject | 2 | |
| 12746403927 | Euphemism | a word or words that are used to avoid employing an unpleasant or offensive term. | 3 | |
| 12746420820 | prosaic | dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of-fact, straightforward; not poetic | 4 | |
| 12746431787 | adage/proverb | a short statement expressing a general truth ("nothing ventured, nothing gained"). | 5 | |
| 12746440518 | maxim | a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying ("where there's life, there's hope.") | 6 | |
| 12746446325 | motto | brief statement used to express a principle ("where there's life, there's hope.") | 7 | |
| 12746458765 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 8 | |
| 12746462039 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 9 | |
| 12746473584 | Sarcasm | verbal irony used with the intent to injure | 10 | |
| 12746477841 | situational irony | a situation that runs contrary to what was expected | 11 | |
| 12746483993 | Satire | something portrayed in a way that's deliberately distorted to achieve comic effect. | 12 | |
| 12746502044 | Parody | imitation for comic effect | 13 | |
| 12746504143 | lampoon | sharp ridicule of the behavior or character of a person or institution | 14 | |
| 12746508385 | caricature | a ludicrous exaggeration of the defects of persons or things | 15 | |
| 12746518587 | cogent | clear, logical, and convincing | 16 | |
| 13527106977 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. |  | 17 |
