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| 268330070 | alliteration | repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables, especially stressed syllables. | |
| 268330071 | anaphora | one of the devices of repetition in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences. | |
| 268330072 | antithesis | speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. ie: "Man proposes, God disposes" | |
| 268330073 | aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle | |
| 268330074 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | |
| 268330075 | chiasmus | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | |
| 268330076 | euphemism | a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term | |
| 268330077 | hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | |
| 268330078 | irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning | |
| 268330079 | litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite | |
| 268330080 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | |
| 268330081 | metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself | |
| 268330082 | onomatopoeia | the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning | |
| 268330083 | oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | |
| 268330084 | paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | |
| 268330085 | parallelism | phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | |
| 268330086 | personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | |
| 268330087 | simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds | |
| 268330088 | syllogism | a three-part deductive argument in which a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise | |
| 268330089 | synecdoche | using a general term to describe something specific or vice versa. | |
| 268330090 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds | |
| 268330091 | pun | deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humourous or serious | |
| 268330092 | understatement | figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is |
