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4887819671AlliterationRepetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables0
4887819672AllusionBrief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art1
4887819673AnaphoraRepetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive paragraph2
4887819674AntimetaboleRepetitionof words in reverse order3
4887819675AntithesisOpposition or contrast of idea or words in a parallel context4
4887819676Archaic dictionOld-fashioned or outdated choice of words5
4887819677AysndetonOmission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, words6
4887819678Cumulative sentenceSentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.7
4887819679Hortative sentenceSentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, action8
4887819680Imperative sentenceSentence used to command or enjoin9
4887819681InversionInverted order of words in a sentence10
4887850373JuxtapositionPlacement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences11
4887850374OxymoronParadoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another12
4887850375ParallelismSimilarities of structure in a pair of series of related words or clauses13
4887850376Periodic sentenceSentence whose main clause is withheld until the end14
4887850377PersonificationAttribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea15
4887850378Rhetorical questionFigure of speech in the form of question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer16
4887850379SynedocheFigure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole17
4887850380ZeugnisUse of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings18

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