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| 6816975867 | Ad Hominem | attacking a person's character rather than their position | 0 | |
| 6816983763 | alliteration | initial sounds in neighboring words | 1 | |
| 6816987790 | allusion | reference to something literary or historical that the author assumes the reader knows | 2 | |
| 6816999636 | amplification | when the writer repeats something just said while adding more detail and information to original | 3 | |
| 6817040690 | analogy | a similarity in some particulars between things otherwise different (sleep and death - lack of animation) | 4 | |
| 6817062263 | anaphora | repetition of words or phrases at beginning of sentences | 5 | |
| 6817062264 | antithesis | a thought is balanced with a contrasting thought in parallel arrangements | 6 | |
| 6817065755 | apostrophe | address is made to an absent or deceased person or a personified thing rhetorically | 7 | |
| 6817068394 | asyndeton | a construction on which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions | 8 | |
| 6817068395 | chiasmus | statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the 2nd part is structurally reversed | 9 | |
| 6817073613 | epigram | brief, pithy and often paradoxical saying | 10 | |
| 6817075584 | euphemism | indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 11 | |
| 6817078589 | hyperbole | intentional exaggeration | 12 | |
| 6817078590 | idiom | an expression in a given language that cannot be understood from a literal meaning of the words | 13 | |
| 6817081812 | inductive reasoning | deriving general principles from particular facts | 14 | |
| 6817085500 | metonymy | substitution of one noun for another | 15 | |
| 6817085501 | paradox | an apparently contradicting statement that actually contains some truth | 16 | |
| 6817089331 | parallelism | repetition of syntactical similarities in passages closely connected | 17 | |
| 6817091426 | personification | thing or idea is given human attributes | 18 | |
| 6817091427 | polysyndeton | use for rhetorical effect of more conjunctions than is neccessary | 19 | |
| 6817094807 | synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the whole thing | 20 | |
| 6817097705 | zeugma | use of word to modify or govern 2 or more words | 21 |
