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| 48595025 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses | |
| 48595026 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure | |
| 48595027 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order | |
| 48595028 | Parenthesis | Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | |
| 48595029 | Apposition | A noun or noun phrases that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning | |
| 48595030 | Ellipsis | The deliberate omission of a word or of words readily implied by the context | |
| 48595031 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between related clauses | |
| 48595032 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of many conjuctions | |
| 48595033 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words | |
| 48595034 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words | |
| 48595035 | Anaphora | The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | |
| 48595036 | Epistrophe | The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses | |
| 48595037 | Epanalepsis | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | |
| 48595038 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | |
| 48595039 | Climax | Arrangement of words, phrases, or cluases in the order of increasing importance | |
| 48595040 | Antimetabole | The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse gramatical order | |
| 48595041 | Chiasmus | Reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses | |
| 48595042 | Polyptoton | Repetition of words derived from the same root | |
| 48595043 | Metaphor | An implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common | |
| 48595044 | Simile | An explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common | |
| 48595045 | Synecdoche | A part of something used to refer to the whole | |
| 48595046 | Metonymy | An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations | |
| 48595047 | Anataclasis | words that sound alike but behave different meanings | |
| 48595048 | Paronomasia | words alike in sound but different in meaning | |
| 48595049 | Syllepsis | A word used differently in relation to two other words it governs or modifies | |
| 48595050 | Anthimeria | The substitution of one part of speech for another | |
| 48595051 | Periphrasis | The substitution of an attribute word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality or characteristic | |
| 48595052 | Personification | Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities | |
| 48595053 | Hyperbole | The use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect | |
| 48595054 | Litote | Understatement | |
| 48595055 | Rhetorical Question | Asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer, but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely | |
| 48595056 | Irony | Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word | |
| 48595057 | Onomatopoeia | Use of words whose sound echoes the sense | |
| 48595058 | Oxymoron | Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings | |
| 48595059 | Paradox | An apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth | |
| 48595060 | Zeugma | Somewhat like a syllepsis, but whereas in syllepsis the single word is grammatically and idiomatically compatible with bothe of the other words that it governs, in a zuegma the single word does not fit grammatically or idiomatically with one member of the pair |
