14746096262 | Alliteration | the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words | 0 | |
14746096263 | Allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 1 | |
14746096264 | Rhetoric | the use of language with the intent to persuade or argue | 2 | |
14746096265 | Antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 3 | |
14746096266 | archaic | old fashioned or outdated choice of words | 4 | |
14746096267 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 5 | |
14746096268 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 6 | |
14746096269 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 7 | |
14746096270 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison | 8 | |
14746096271 | Oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 9 |
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