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| 7595895375 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person. | 0 | |
| 7595908259 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated to it. "The White House declared." | 1 | |
| 7595933262 | Litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite | 2 | |
| 7595948273 | Paradox | A statement that contradicts itself | 3 | |
| 7595956245 | Rhetorical questions | questions that require no answer | 4 | |
| 7595962287 | Conceit | extended metaphor | 5 | |
| 7595966571 | Distinctio | At this point, we have a short time left-- a short time being less than fifty years. | 6 | |
| 7595974254 | Eponym | a person for whom something, such as a city, building, or street, has been named | 7 | |
| 7595984039 | Oxymoron | Two opposite terms jammed together; safely dead | 8 | |
| 7595991584 | Anadiplosis | "Without a healthy economy, we can't have a healthy society. And without a healthy society, the economy won't stay healthy for long. | 9 | |
| 7596007960 | Epistrophe | 'Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it | 10 | |
| 7596020427 | Chiasmus | "Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You." | 11 | |
| 7596028831 | Anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 12 | |
| 7596036418 | Asyndeton | I came, I saw, I conquered | 13 | |
| 7596045922 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 14 | |
| 7596050645 | Tricolon | Sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. | 15 | |
| 7596064505 | Pun | A horse is a very stable animal | 16 | |
| 7596074983 | Analogy | an extended comparison showing the similarities between two things | 17 |
