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| 9647673681 | adage | a folk saying with a lesson |  | 0 |
| 9647675752 | allegory | a story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, qualities or concepts. the interaction of these characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth. |  | 1 |
| 9647695789 | aphorism | a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle. |  | 2 |
| 9647703565 | ellipsis | the deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author. |  | 3 |
| 9647710098 | euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. |  | 4 |
| 9647721509 | figurative language | writing that is not meant to be taken literally. | 5 | |
| 9647724083 | analogy | a comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables. |  | 6 |
| 9647733157 | hyperbole | an exaggeration. |  | 7 |
| 9647735366 | idiom | a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. |  | 8 |
| 9647740004 | metaphor | making an implied comparison while not using "like" or "as" or other such words. |  | 9 |
| 9647750312 | metonymy | replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept. |  | 10 |
| 9647754550 | synecdoche | a kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa. |  | 11 |
| 9647765403 | simile | using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things. |  | 12 |
