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7686610580ALLITERATIONRepetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.0
7686617641ANAPHORARepetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent.1
7686617642ANECDOTEBrief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual.2
7686635099APOSTROPHECalling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.3
7686635100CLICHEA word of phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse.4
7686639396COLLOQUIALISMA word of phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations.5
7686639397EPITHETAn adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality.6
7686641950FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEWords which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms.7
7686641951FLASHBACKA scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.8
7686641952FORESHADOWINGThe use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.9
7686644533HYPERBOLEA figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration of overstatement, for effect.10
7686644534IMAGERYThe use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.11
7686644535JUXTAPOSITIONThe fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.12
7686648305METAPHORA figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.13
7686648306METONYMYA figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it.14
7686651345OXYMORONA figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.15
7686651346PUNA "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things.16
7686651347SIMILEA figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles.17
7686654157SOLILOQUYA long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage.18
7686654158SYNECDOCHEA figure of speech in which a part represents the whole.19
7686656158UNDERSTATEMENTA statement that says less than what is meant.20
7686656159ZEUGMAA figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses.21
7686668742ASSONANCEThe repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together.22

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