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| 2831960142 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism: | 0 | |
| 2831967277 | Anadiplosis | Repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next. | 1 | |
| 2831975692 | antithesis | establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure | 2 | |
| 2831981125 | asyndeton | consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses | 3 | |
| 2831983886 | polysyndeton | use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton | 4 | |
| 2841709290 | polysyndeton example | They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked | 5 | |
| 2841710430 | asyndeton example | I play volleyball, soccer, basketball, golf. | 6 | |
| 2841715625 | antitheis example | Mistakes are advantages not negatives for they build a person up instead of tearing them down if they learn from them. | 7 | |
| 2841717752 | anaphora example | I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to live life t o the fullest. | 8 | |
| 2841718127 | anadiplosis example | I run track because I like It, I like it because it gets me in shape, I get in shape due to all the hard work. | 9 | |
| 2869416965 | Synecdoche | a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made, or in short, any portion, section, or main quality for the whole or the thing itself (or vice versa). | 10 | |
| 2869417350 | Synecdoche example | Two hundred minds are in the room ready to take the SAT. | 11 | |
| 2869423482 | Epistrophe example | Where affections bear rule, there reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued | 12 | |
| 2869424087 | Epistrophe | forms the counterpart to anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences | 13 | |
| 2869426862 | oxymoron | a paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun ("eloquent silence") or adverb-adjective ("inertly strong") relationship, and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit | 14 | |
| 2869427417 | oxymoron example | The cost-saving program became an expensive economy. | 15 | |
| 2869439179 | Chiasmus example | you think about the person you love but the person you love doesn't think about you. | 16 | |
| 2869439501 | Chiasmus | might be called "reverse parallelism," since the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order | 17 | |
| 2869441427 | Apostrophe | interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thing, either present or absent. Its most common purpose in prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back | 18 | |
| 2869443012 | Apostrophe example | O Heavens, help me on this quiz. | 19 | |
| 2974875524 | Onomatopoeia | is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes | 20 | |
| 2974883413 | Onomatopoeia example | The phone wouldn't stop ringing so I turned it off. | 21 | |
| 2974893685 | Zeugma | includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage (or yoking together) of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech. | 22 | |
| 2974908026 | Zeugma example | I play volleyball, soccer and basketball. | 23 | |
| 2974929630 | Parataxis | writing successive independent clauses, with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions | 24 | |
| 2974933373 | Parataxis example | I trained for track, and I came in first place in the 800m race. | 25 | |
| 2974938882 | Exemplum | citing an example; using an illustrative story, either true or fictitious | 26 | |
| 2974944048 | exemplum example | Let me give you an example. In the early 1920's in Germany, the government let the printing presses turn out endless quantities of paper money, and soon, instead of 50-pfennige postage stamps, denominations up to 50 billion marks were being issued. | 27 | |
| 2974966150 | Pleonasm | using more words than required to express an idea; being redundant. Normally a vice, it is done on purpose on rare occasions for emphasis | 28 | |
| 2974970171 | pleonasm examples | Joseph saw George Strait with his own eyes. | 29 | |
| 2989620530 | Alliteration | is the recurrence of initial consonant sounds. The repetition can be juxtaposed (and then it is usually limited to two words | 30 | |
| 2989620915 | Alliteration example | Tim tickled Taylor. | 31 | |
| 2989625013 | Distinctio | is an explicit reference to a particular meaning or to the various meanings of a word, in order to remove or prevent ambiguity | 32 | |
| 2989625423 | Distinctio example | They are my family by family I mean my everything and I will do anything and everything to protect them. | 33 | |
| 2989628031 | Symploce | combining anaphora and epistrophe, so that one word or phrase is repeated at the beginning and another word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences | 34 | |
| 2989628518 | Symploce example | The successful ones are not the popular ones, the successful ones are the intelligent ones. | 35 | |
| 2989633090 | Diacope | repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis | 36 | |
| 2989633727 | Diacope example | I will succeed I repeat I will succeed. | 37 | |
| 2989640350 | Hyperbole | the counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect. | 38 | |
| 2989641110 | Hyperbole Example | If I fail this quiz I will cry my eyes out. | 39 | |
| 3130964211 | Metonymy | is another form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche (and, in fact, some rhetoricians do not distinguish between the two), in which the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with (but not an actual part of) the subject with which it is to be compared. | 40 | |
| 3130967152 | Metonymy Example | The suits and ties are ready for business. | 41 | |
| 3130972066 | Eponym | substitutes for a particular attribute the name of a famous person recognized for that attribute. By their nature eponyms often border on the cliche, but many times they can be useful without seeming too obviously trite. | 42 | |
| 3130973696 | Eponym Example | I fall so much that some people call me Jennifer Lawrence. | 43 | |
| 3130984165 | Scesis Onomaton | emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements. | 44 | |
| 3130984166 | Scesis Onomaton Example | I don't have any money, I am broke, I am deprived from my necissities. | 45 | |
| 3131006640 | Aposiopesis | stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished | 46 | |
| 3131007168 | Aposiopesis Example | If I don't get a good grade on this quiz I will | 47 | |
| 3131012882 | Assonance | similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants | 48 | |
| 3131013783 | Assonance Example | I zoomed in the camera because the flowers were blooming. | 49 |
