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| 9712304237 | alliteration | repetition of the same letter or sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words | 0 | |
| 9712304238 | anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive clauses | 1 | |
| 9712304239 | apostrophe | sudden break from the previous narrative for an address, in the second person, of some person or object, absent or present | 2 | |
| 9712304240 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions | 3 | |
| 9712304241 | chiasmus | arrangement of words in a mirroring, or ABBA, pattern, found most often with pairs of nouns and adjectives | 4 | |
| 9712304243 | enjambment | continuation of a unit of thought beyond the end of one verse and into the first few feet of the next | 5 | |
| 9712304244 | hyperbaton | distanced placement of two words which are logically meant to be understood together | 6 | |
| 9712304245 | hyperbole | exaggeration for rhetorical effect | 7 | |
| 9712304246 | litotes | understatement, often enhanced by the use of the negative | 8 | |
| 9712304247 | metaphor | implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it | 9 | |
| 9712304248 | metonymy | substitution of one word for another which it suggests | 10 | |
| 9712304249 | onomatopoeia | use of words of which the sound suggests the sense | 11 | |
| 9712304250 | personification | attribution of personality to an impersonal thing | 12 | |
| 9712304251 | polysyndeton | overabundance of conjunctions | 13 | |
| 9712304252 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point and without the expectation of a reply | 14 | |
| 9712304253 | simile | explicit comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as' | 15 | |
| 9712304254 | synchesis | interlocking word order; abAB | 16 | |
| 9712304255 | tmesis | separation into two parts of a word normally written as one, often for a visual effect | 17 |
