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| 11377634542 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion. | 0 | |
| 11377636068 | Connotation | Implied meaning of a word | 1 | |
| 11377639031 | Denotation | Dictionary meaning of a word | 2 | |
| 11377640744 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or overstatement for effect | 3 | |
| 11377642502 | Imagery | Language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching | 4 | |
| 11377645181 | Irony | Using language that normally signifies the opposite of what the writer intends to achieve a humorous effect or to add emphasis | 5 | |
| 11377646655 | Metaphor | Comparison of two UNLIKE things by saying one is another | 6 | |
| 11377649153 | Metonymy | Substituting a word for another word closely associated with it | 7 | |
| 11377651660 | Onomatopoeia | Word that imitates the sound it represents | 8 | |
| 11377654042 | Oxymoron | Apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | 9 | |
| 11377656542 | Personification | Giving human qualities to non-living things | 10 | |
| 11377658927 | Simile | Comparison of two unlike things using like or as | 11 | |
| 11377663287 | Symbol | Using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning | 12 | |
| 11377665684 | Synecdoche | One uses a part to represent the whole | 13 | |
| 11380798296 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words | 14 | |
| 11380800688 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds within words | 15 | |
| 11380802016 | Caesura | Strong pause within a line of verse | 16 | |
| 11380803349 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds within words, particularly at the end of words | 17 | |
| 11380804117 | Enjambment | Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza | 18 | |
| 11380806582 | Kenning | Figure of speech, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing | 19 | |
| 11380808248 | Malapropism | Misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound | 20 | |
| 11380809426 | Meter | Sound pattern for verse, comments on the stress of the syllables | 21 | |
| 11380810513 | Slant Rhyme | Close but not exact rhyme | 22 | |
| 11380811955 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. | 23 | |
| 11380813965 | Anaphora | Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs | 24 | |
| 11380815454 | Ellipsis | When one or more words are omitted from a sentence (...) | 25 | |
| 11380816426 | Epistrophe | Same word returns at the end of each sentence | 26 | |
| 11380817710 | Inversion | Changing of the usual order of words | 27 | |
| 11380819251 | Polysyndeton | Repetition of connectives or conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect, as in the phrase here and there and everywhere | 28 | |
| 11380820423 | Zeugma | Figure of speech in which a word, usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun, blending together grammatically and logically different ideas | 29 |
