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| 4755580015 | alliteration | a figure of speech in which consonant sounds at the beginning of words are repeated | 0 | |
| 4755581346 | allusion | a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events. | 1 | |
| 4755584568 | analogy | when you compare the relationship of two things. | 2 | |
| 4755585961 | anaphora | repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses | 3 | |
| 4755587336 | chiasmus | figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause; an inverted order of repeated words in adjacent phrases or clauses (A-B, B-A). | 4 | |
| 4755600265 | antithesis | figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences. | 5 | |
| 4755602954 | aphorism | a precise statement of principal given in pointed words. | 6 | |
| 4755604297 | apostrophe | a figure of speech where someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is addressed as is present | 7 | |
| 4755607580 | asyndeton | figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or clauses; a string of words not separated by normally occurring conjunctions. | 8 | |
| 4755611232 | call to action | a statement that urges people to act or make a change | 9 | |
| 4755611940 | cumulative sentence | a sentence that states its main idea at the beginning and follows up with details. | 10 | |
| 4755613490 | doublespeak | language used to distort and manipulate rather than inform. | 11 | |
| 4755614555 | euphemism | the use of inoffensive words or phrases rather than offensive ones. | 12 | |
| 4755616415 | hortative sentence | a sentence meant to encourage someone to do something. | 13 | |
| 4755618100 | hyperbole | an extravagant exaggeration. From the Greek for "overcasting", hyperbole is a figure of speech that is a grossly exaggerated description of statement. | 14 | |
| 4755620872 | imperative sentence | a sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or a command. | 15 | |
| 4755657674 | inversion/anastrophe | inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of subject-verb-object order. | 16 | |
| 4755659805 | jargon | specialized language used by people from the same field. | 17 | |
| 4755661626 | juxtaposition | the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side for the purpose of comparison or contrast. | 18 | |
| 4755663978 | litotes | understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed. | 19 | |
| 4755668733 | metaphor | a type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says one thing is something else but, literally, it is not. | 20 | |
| 4755671780 | metonymy/synecdoche | a figure of speech which substitutes one term with another that is being associated with that term | 21 | |
| 4755674357 | onomatopoeia | sound words, words that by their sound, suggest their meaning. | 22 | |
| 4755675547 | oxymoron | figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory. | 23 | |
| 4755676513 | paradox | figure that employs an apparent contradiction which, nonetheless, evokes some measure of truth. | 24 | |
| 4755678473 | parallelism | figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure. | 25 | |
| 4755684150 | periodic sentence | a sentence that states its main idea at the end of the sentence. | 26 | |
| 4755684798 | personification | a figure of speech where animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics. | 27 | |
| 4755687743 | polysyndeton | the repetition of conjunctions in close succession | 28 | |
| 4755690244 | rhetorical question | figure which asks a question, not for the purpose of further discussion, but to assert or deny an answer implicitly; a question whose answer is obvious or implied. | 29 | |
| 4755692802 | simile | a simile is a type of figurative language, language that does done mean exactly what it says, that makes a comparison between two otherwise unalike objects or ideas by connecting them with the words "like" or "as". | 30 | |
| 4755695528 | zeugma | two different words linked to a verb or an adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them. | 31 |
