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| 4734393051 | Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | 0 | |
| 4734393052 | Juxtaposition | an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast | 1 | |
| 4734399982 | Simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in "she is like a rose. | 2 | |
| 4734399983 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "A mighty fortress is our God." | 3 | |
| 4734399984 | Alliteration | the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group | 4 | |
| 4734399985 | Parallelism | agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel. | 5 | |
| 4734399986 | Cacophony | Harsh discordance of sound, a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds | 6 | |
| 4734399987 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly." | 7 | |
| 4734399988 | Litotes | understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all." | 8 | |
| 4734399989 | Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. | 9 | |
| 4734399990 | Rhetorical question | a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply, as "What is so rare as a day in June?" | 10 | |
| 4734399991 | Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as "to wait an eternity." | 11 | |
| 4734399992 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man. | 12 | |
| 4734399993 | Euphemism | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. | 13 | |
| 4734399994 | Analogy | a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. | 14 | |
| 4734399995 | Bathos | a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax. | 15 | |
| 4734399996 | Anaphora | Also called epanaphora. Rhetoric. repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. | 16 | |
| 4734399997 | Anecdote | a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. | 17 | |
| 4734399998 | Antithesis | literal meaning opposite, is rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 18 | |
| 4734399999 | Apostrophe | the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o'er for over, or pronounced, as in gov't for government; to indicate the possessive case, as in man's; or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols, as in several M.D.'s, 3's. | 19 | |
| 4734400000 | Personification | the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. | 20 | |
| 4734400001 | Parallel structure | Parallel structure (also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction. | 21 | |
| 4734400002 | Appeals | an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea. | 22 | |
| 4734400003 | Ethos | Character and credibility | 23 | |
| 4734400004 | Logos | Logic and facts | 24 | |
| 4734400005 | Pathos | Emotion | 25 | |
| 4734400006 | Non sequitur | An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence. | 26 | |
| 4734400007 | Tone | any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc. | 27 | |
| 4734400008 | Hypothesis | a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts. | 28 | |
| 4734400009 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: | 29 | |
| 4938844623 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | 30 | |
| 4938844624 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. | 31 | |
| 4938853939 | Connotation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. | 32 |
