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| 6302088068 | Simile | a comparison using like or as | 0 | |
| 6302090691 | Paradox | a statement that appears on the surface to be contradictory or impossible but turns out to express an often striking truth | 1 | |
| 6302101079 | Metonymy | a trope which substitutes the name of an entity with something else that is closely associated with it` | 2 | |
| 6302105115 | Antithesis | a figure of speech in which words or phrases that are parallel in order and syntax express opposite or contrasting meanings | 3 | |
| 6302111307 | Oxymoron | a compressed paradox that closely links two seemingly contrary elements in a way that turns out to make good sense | 4 | |
| 6302115525 | Personification | a figure of thought in which an abstract concept, animal, or inanimate object is treated as though it were alive or had human attributes | 5 | |
| 6302124719 | Hyperbole | a great exaggeration | 6 | |
| 6302128685 | Structural Irony | an implication of alternate or reversed meaning that pervades a work; involves an unreliable narrator | 7 | |
| 6302131779 | Pathetic Fallacy | a special type of personification in which inanimate aspects of nature, such as the landscape or the weather, are represented as having human qualities or feelings | 8 | |
| 6302140726 | Chiasmus | a figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the words | 9 | |
| 6302144735 | Tragic Irony | Dramatic irony that ends in tragedy | 10 | |
| 6302152224 | Periphrasis | a figure of thought in which a point is stated by deliberate circumlocution, rather than directly | 11 | |
| 6302158183 | Rhetorical Question | a figure of speech in which a question is posed not to solicit a reply but to emphasize a foregone or clearly implied conclusion | 12 | |
| 6302161460 | Litotes | a figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite | 13 | |
| 6302165807 | Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike objects without using like or as | 14 | |
| 6302327615 | Dramatic Irony | occurs when the audience is privy to knowledge that one or more of the characters lacks | 15 | |
| 6302335803 | Understatement | a form of irony in which a point is deliberately expressed for less, in magnitude, value, or importance, than it actually is | 16 | |
| 6302339434 | Synecdoche | a figure of thought in which the term for part of something is used to represent the whole | 17 | |
| 6302343231 | Anaphora | the intentional repetition of words and phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs | 18 | |
| 6302351877 | Verbal Irony | implying meaning different from and often the complete opposite of, the one that is explicitly stated | 19 | |
| 6302353785 | Pun | a figure of thought that plays on words that have the same sound or closely similar sounds, but have sharply contrasted meanings | 20 | |
| 6302357770 | Apostrophe | an address to a dead or absent person or to an inanimate object or abstract concept | 21 | |
| 6302365842 | Cosmic Irony | an implied worldview in which characters are led to embrace false hopes of aid or success, only to be defeated by some larger force, such as God or fate | 22 |
