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| 4335939694 | Litotes | A form of understatement (saying the opposite of what we mean) often ironic or affirmation by saying something negative | 0 | |
| 4335949351 | Meiosis | Understatement; minimizing for effect | 1 | |
| 4335953029 | Antithesis | Balancing contrasting ideas (related to paradox, often ironic) | 2 | |
| 4335956992 | Paradox | Seemingly contradictory statement with underlying truth | 3 | |
| 4335960778 | Juxtaposition | Two or more opposing ideas used together to create a contrast | 4 | |
| 4335968352 | Metonymy | Substitute symbol to represent a whole | 5 | |
| 4335971638 | Synecdoche | Substitute part of whole to represent the whole | 6 | |
| 4335976775 | Allegory | Extended narrative (in poetry or prose) in which the characters and actions - and sometimes the setting - are contrived to make sense on the literal and figurative levels | 7 | |
| 4335986103 | Apostrophe | Address person not present | 8 | |
| 4335992943 | Panegyric | Literary expression of praise | 9 | |
| 4335994787 | Verbal irony | Saying the opposite of what you mean | 10 | |
| 4335997992 | Situational irony | Discrepancy between what is said and what should be | 11 | |
| 4336003040 | Dramatic irony | Speaks means something different from author, audience knows what the character doesn't | 12 | |
| 4336016148 | Satire | Subject (usually a human vice) is made fun of or scorned, eliciting amusement, contempt or indignation. Purpose is to provoke change. | 13 | |
| 4336028944 | Euphemism | Uses an inoffensive or more socially acceptable word for something that could be inappropriate or offensive to some | 14 | |
| 4336033466 | Aphorism | Brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth | 15 | |
| 4336038203 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sound within a group of words or lines | 16 | |
| 4339277721 | Consonance | The repetition of the sequence of two or more consonants but with a change in the intervening vowel | 17 | |
| 4339286125 | Parallelism | A pattern of language that create rhythm of repetition combined with some other language of repetition focusing on grammatical structure | 18 | |
| 4339296764 | Ploce | Repeating a word within the same line or clause | 19 | |
| 4339322299 | Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of a word at the beginning of several lines, is used to emphasize an idea. | 20 |
