p.78-80 in the Language of Composition
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| 14752780405 | alliteration | repetition of the same soung beginning several words or syllables in sequence | 0 | |
| 14752780406 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place or to a work of art | 1 | |
| 14752780407 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
| 14752780408 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | 3 | |
| 14752780409 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 4 | |
| 14752780410 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 5 | |
| 14752780411 | asyndeton | omission of conjuction between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 6 | |
| 14752780412 | cumulative sentence | sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 7 | |
| 14752780413 | hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats implores or calls to action | 8 | |
| 14752780414 | imperative sentence | sentence used to cammand or enjoin | 9 | |
| 14752780415 | inversion | inverted order of words in a sentence | 10 | |
| 14752780416 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities of differences | 11 | |
| 14752780417 | metaphor | compares two things without using like or as | 12 | |
| 14752780418 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 13 | |
| 14752780419 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words or phrases, making them similar in form | 14 | |
| 14752780420 | periodic sentence | sentence where the main clause is withheld until the end | 15 | |
| 14752780421 | personification | giving lifelike quality and characteristics to inanimate objects | 16 | |
| 14752780422 | rhetorical question | question that creates dramatic effect doesn't require an answer | 17 | |
| 14752780423 | synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 18 | |
| 14752780424 | zeugma | use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different meanings | 19 |
