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| 6889985513 | Ad hominem | attack the person not the argument | 0 | |
| 6889986431 | Allegory | story with a hidden meaning | 1 | |
| 6889987675 | Allusion | reference to a famous person or work | 2 | |
| 6889988722 | Analogy | extended simile | 3 | |
| 6889988723 | Anaphora | same expression is used at the beginning of a sentence | 4 | |
| 6889994453 | Anecdote | short narrative to provide an illustration | 5 | |
| 6889995581 | Antithesis | a direct contrast of structurally parallel work groupings |  | 6 |
| 6890000653 | Aphorism | a statement with general principle (a few words) | 7 | |
| 6890001811 | Apostrophe | figure of speech when a speaker directly addresses an inanimate object | 8 | |
| 6890011238 | Bathos | overdone pathos | 9 | |
| 6890011239 | Chiasmus | sentence structure (ABBA) | 10 | |
| 6890012726 | Loose sentence | sentence brought to the close before the end | 11 | |
| 6890014123 | deductive reasoning | general to specific | 12 | |
| 6890019150 | didactic | teaches a specific lesson or moral of correct behavior or thinking | 13 | |
| 6890020117 | Dysphemism | a derogatory term instead of a neutral one "loony bin" for "mental facility" | 14 | |
| 6890031683 | ellipsis | ................ | 15 | |
| 6890031698 | Epiphany | when the character realizes something | 16 | |
| 6890033623 | Epistrophe | beginning with the same word or phrase | 17 | |
| 6890035533 | Ethos | ethical/ credibility appeal | 18 | |
| 6890037029 | Euphanism | replaces with indirect words (passed away for died) | 19 | |
| 6890038408 | Idiom | words in a different order than what makes sense (How do you do?) | 20 | |
| 6890056665 | Imperative | extremely necessary; vitally important | 21 | |
| 6890058137 | Incongruous | (adj) out of place, inappropriate, not harmonious | 22 | |
| 6890059681 | Inductive reasoning | specific to general | 23 | |
| 6890061205 | Litotes | deliberate use of understatement |  | 24 |
| 6890065769 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 25 | |
| 6890067618 | Maxim | a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying | 26 | |
| 6890070171 | Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the whole | 27 | |
| 6890071903 | Non sequitur | something that does not logically follow | 28 | |
| 6890073018 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. (Boom crash) | 29 | |
| 6890075883 | Oxymoron | Two words that do not make sense together |  | 30 |
| 6890083538 | Paradox | A contradictory statement or proposition |  | 31 |
| 6890086453 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 32 | |
| 6890087609 | Parody | a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner | 33 | |
| 6890088467 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 34 | |
| 6890090300 | Periodic sentence | The bulk of the sentence is at the end | 35 | |
| 6890092804 | Personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea | 36 | |
| 6890095152 | Post hoc ergo propter hoc | after this therefore because of this | 37 | |
| 6890109901 | Pun | A play on words |  | 38 |
| 6890113628 | Simile | Comparison using like or as | 39 | |
| 6890115956 | Slippery slope | Goes to the extreme | 40 | |
| 6890127554 | Syllogistic reasoning | If A=B and B=C, then A=C | 41 | |
| 6890131612 | Synecdoche | A part that stands for a whole | 42 | |
| 6890133308 | Synesthesia | a sound and an image (Loud Shirt and Blue Note) | 43 | |
| 6890136892 | Understatement | understating something | 44 |
