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| 10445636574 | anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word/s at the end of a clause is then repeated at the beginning of the next clause. "Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to suffering." | 0 | |
| 10445663118 | anastrophe | The usual arrangement of words is mixed. "The path to the dark side, fear is." | 1 | |
| 10445663605 | antanagoge | Placing a good thing with a negative statement to reduce the negativity. "True he always forgets my birthday, but he buys he gifts all year round." | 2 | |
| 10445664249 | aposiopesis | When the speaker is cut off/falls short of completing a statement. "A penny's worth of this and... No, wait..." | 3 | |
| 10445665039 | chiasmus | When words are repeated but in the reverse order. "Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love." | 4 | |
| 10445667359 | diacope | The repetition of a word after intervening words/phrases. "We will do it, I tell you; we will do it." | 5 | |
| 10445667490 | epistrophe | When a word is repeated at the end of each clause. "Where now? Who now? When now?" | 6 | |
| 10445668071 | euphemism | A more pleasant way of saying something either inappropriate or uncomfortable. "Royal Wench! She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed. He plowed her, and she cropped." | 7 | |
| 10445668072 | idiom | An expression where two or more words that mean something other than the literal words. "Its raining cats and dogs." | 8 | |
| 10445668488 | juxtaposition | When two ideas, characters, or places are placed side by side. God and Satan, Romeo and Tybalt | 9 | |
| 10445668489 | paradox | A self-contradictory statement that expresses some truth. "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." | 10 | |
| 10445668924 | personification | When a non-human object is given human attributes. "When well-appareled April on the heel of limping winter treads." | 11 | |
| 10445669419 | procatalepsis | When the speaker or writer expects the opponents objections. "I know what you're going to say... That if they look at it properly they'll see that it wasn't our fault." | 12 | |
| 10445669420 | simile | A comparison between two things that aren't alike. "Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like the leaning Tower of Pisa." | 13 | |
| 10445684205 | zeugma | When one word can modify two other words in different ways. "She broke his car, and his heart | 14 |
