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| 7768579750 | Figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language. (e.g. metaphor, irony, apostrophe) |  | 0 |
| 7768581855 | Allusion | An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand. Can be historical, literary, mythical, etc. (symbol: flag=freedom) |  | 1 |
| 7768593024 | Anadiplosis | The repetition of a keyword, especially the last one at the beginning of the next sentence clause. (He gave his life; life was all he could give) |  | 2 |
| 7768598829 | Analogy | A comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar. |  | 3 |
| 7768603505 | Apostrophe | A rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction. |  | 4 |
| 7768608202 | Cliche | An overused, worn-out, hackneyed expression, that used to be fresh but is no more. (blushing bride, clinging vine) often used to describe people. |  | 5 |
| 7768614095 | Hyperbole | exxageration for emphasis, not literal. (that book weighs a ton!) |  | 6 |
| 7768618963 | Kenning | A metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun. ("ring bestower" for a king, "whale-road" for sea.) |  | 7 |
| 7768626881 | Litotes | understatement employed for the purpose of enhancing the effect or the ideas expressed contains a negative. "I am not unhappy" |  | 8 |
| 7768636163 | Metaphor | A comparison, like simile but usually implied and with comparative words such as like or as. (my heart is a singing bird) |  | 9 |
| 7768641712 | Dead Metaphor | used so much it's lost meaning and is taken literally (head of class) |  | 10 |
| 7768676321 | Extended Metaphor | Idea sustained throughout work |  | 11 |
| 7768680735 | Mixed Metaphor | Combination of 2 or more inconsistent metaphors in a single expression ("we'll burn that bridge when we come to it") |  | 12 |
| 7768699204 | Metonymy | The use of the name of one thing for that of another associated with or suggested by it. ( e.g dish=entire plate of food, hand=for help) |  | 13 |
| 7768708681 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole (e.g. hands for manual laborers, "the law" for police officer or all hands on deck meeting) |  | 14 |
| 7768737215 | Trope | A figure of speech |  | 15 |
| 7768739715 | Understatement | (AKA Meiosis) The opposite of hyperbole- verbal irony. Make something purposely represented far less important than it actually is. |  | 16 |
| 7768745200 | Syntax | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences, similar to diction, but diction refers to individual words syntax refers to groups of words. (length of sentences, unusual sentence constructions, sentence patterns, and kinds) |  | 17 |
| 7768751970 | Anaphora | Regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. |  | 18 |
| 7768754238 | Anastrophe | A rhetorical term for the inversion of the normal order of the parts of a sentence. |  | 19 |
| 7768760138 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. |  | 20 |
| 7768761999 | Antithesis | A figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other using grammatically parallel syntax. (you're going, I'm staying) (small step for man, giant leap for mankind) |  | 21 |
| 7768769724 | Asyndeton | Conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose. (I came. I saw. I conquered.) |  | 22 |
| 7768772661 | Chiasmus | Grammatical structure in which the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words. (One should eat to live, not live to eat.) |  | 23 |
| 7768780571 | Inversion | Constructing a sentence so the predicate comes before the subject, e.g. in California, grow oranges. |  | 24 |
| 7768789079 | Parallelism | Expressing similar or related ideas in similar grammatical structure, "He tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable. (e.g. What you see is What you get!) | 25 |
