Examples of words from the Glossary Review.
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| 2690781011 | Ad hominem | Jordan's policy won't work because Jordan is stupid. | 0 | |
| 2690781012 | Alliteration | The slippery slug slides. | 1 | |
| 2690781013 | Allusion | Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities. | 2 | |
| 2690781014 | Anadiplosis | The crime was common, common was the pain. | 3 | |
| 2690781015 | Analogy | "Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." | 4 | |
| 2690781016 | Anaphora | "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." | 5 | |
| 2690781017 | Anastrope | "So rested he by the tree" OR "arms that wrap about a shawl" | 6 | |
| 2690781018 | Antimetabole | one should eat to live, not live to eat | 7 | |
| 2690781019 | Antithesis | "to be or not to be" | 8 | |
| 2690781020 | Aphorism | "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" | 9 | |
| 2690781021 | Assonance | How now brown cow? | 10 | |
| 2690781022 | Asyndeton | "I came, I saw, I conquered." OR He ate, she drank, we slept. | 11 | |
| 2690781023 | Cacophony | "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves " | 12 | |
| 2690781024 | Chiasmus | "Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike" | 13 | |
| 2690781025 | Cliché | like stealing candy from a baby | 14 | |
| 2690781026 | Colloquial expressions | "They have must have been going some" | 15 | |
| 2690781027 | Compound-complex sentence | The cat lived in the backyard, but the dog, who knew he was superior, lived inside the house. | 16 | |
| 2690781028 | Couplet | "Wave after wave in hills each other crowds, / As if the deeps resolved to storm the clouds." | 17 | |
| 2690781029 | Doggerel | Who put the ram in the rama-lama ding dong? OR " If you see Kay, / Tell him he may. / See you in tea, / Tell him from me. " | 18 | |
| 2690781030 | Ellipsis | I like to interview people sitting down. | 19 | |
| 2690781031 | Epitaph | Oy, Megan's dead. | 20 | |
| 2690781032 | Euphemism | He kicked the bucket | 21 | |
| 2690781033 | Euphony | "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, " | 22 | |
| 2690781034 | Hyperbole | "His eloquence would split rocks" | 23 | |
| 2690781035 | Idiom | "Let sleeping dogs lie" OR "Cry over spilt milk" OR "Be green with envy" | 24 | |
| 2690781036 | Invective | Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. | 25 | |
| 2690781037 | Isocolon | "His purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous" | 26 | |
| 2690781038 | Litotes | "She was not unmindful" | 27 | |
| 2690781039 | Loose sentence | That's the house that Jack built. | 28 | |
| 2690781040 | Metaphor | Her eyes are storm clouds. | 29 | |
| 2690781041 | Metonymy | "The pen is mightier than the sword" OR The colonists blamed the crown for the tax on tea. | 30 | |
| 2690781042 | Onomatopoeia | Hiss, buzz, bang | 31 | |
| 2690781043 | Oxymoron | Random pattern, large minority, deafening silence, government organization, drink responsibly, dumb genius, wireless cable | 32 | |
| 2690781044 | Parallelism | "He likes to fish and to swim." | 33 | |
| 2690781045 | Paradox | "Death, thou shalt die!" | 34 | |
| 2690781046 | Pathetic fallacy | "The cruel crawling foam" | 35 | |
| 2690781047 | Periodic sentence | When she won, she bought a car. | 36 | |
| 2690781048 | Personification | The sun sat up and yawned. | 37 | |
| 2690781049 | Portmanteau word | smog, brunch, spork | 38 | |
| 2690781050 | Polysyndeton | Here and there and everywhere. | 39 | |
| 2690781051 | Pun | "You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass." OR "Immanuel doesn't pun; he Kant." | 40 | |
| 2690781052 | Repetition | He said no. I can't believe it. He said no. Can you believe it? He said no! | 41 | |
| 2690781053 | Rhetorical question | Why do I even bother? | 42 | |
| 2690781054 | Simile | She was like Aphrodite in human form. | 43 | |
| 2690781055 | Syllogism | Bikers are mean. Mean people belong in jail. Bikers belong in jail. | 44 | |
| 2690781056 | Synecdoche | All hands on deck | 45 | |
| 2690781057 | Synesthesia | "tasting of Flora and the country green, /Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth" | 46 | |
| 2690781058 | Understatement | "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worst" | 47 |
