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| 6579566613 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 0 | |
| 6579566614 | isocolon | scheme of parallel structure that occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length | 1 | |
| 6579566615 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure | 2 | |
| 6579566616 | anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order | 3 | |
| 6579566617 | parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | 4 | |
| 6579566618 | apposition | placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. In grammar, this is the *appositive* or verbal cluster | 5 | |
| 6579566619 | ellipsis | deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context | 6 | |
| 6579566620 | asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses | 7 | |
| 6579566621 | polysyndeton | deliberate use of many conjunctions | 8 | |
| 6579566622 | apostrophe | the direct address of a person or an abstract quality, whether present or not | 9 | |
| 6579566623 | alliteration | repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words | 10 | |
| 6579566624 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words | 11 | |
| 6579566625 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses | 12 | |
| 6579566626 | epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 13 | |
| 6579566627 | epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause | 14 | |
| 6579566628 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 15 | |
| 6579566629 | climax | arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance | 16 | |
| 6579566630 | antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 17 | |
| 6579566631 | chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses | 18 | |
| 6579566632 | polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root | 19 | |
| 6579566633 | metaphor | *implied* comparison between two things of unlike nature | 20 | |
| 6579566634 | simile | *explicit* comparison between two things of unlike nature | 21 | |
| 6820410528 | sentenia | quotation, maxim, aphorism, or wise saying | 22 | |
| 6820412686 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole | 23 | |
| 6820415944 | metonymy | substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant | 24 | |
| 6820422799 | antanaclasis | repetition of a word in two different senses | 25 | |
| 6820425814 | paronomasia | use of words alike in sound but different in meaning | 26 | |
| 6820444067 | syllepsis | use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs | 27 | |
| 6820446288 | anthimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another | 28 | |
| 6820451710 | periphrasis (autonomasia) | substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name | 29 | |
| 6820460472 | personification (prosopesis) | investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities | 30 | |
| 6820464773 | hyperbole | the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect | 31 | |
| 6820470959 | litotes | deliberate use of understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all." | 32 | |
| 6820477889 | onomatopoeia | use of words whose sound echoes the sense | 33 | |
| 6820483275 | rhetorical question | asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely | 34 | |
| 6820489386 | irony | use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word | 35 | |
| 6820497472 | oxymoron | the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory | 36 | |
| 6820500545 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth | 37 | |
| 6820506413 | zuegma | unexpected items in a sentence are connected by one shared word, usually in which one verb governs several words, or clauses, each in a different sense | 38 |
