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| 5768890276 | Adage | Saying or proverb embodying piece of common wisdom based on experience | 0 | |
| 5768896529 | Verisimilitude | Similar to truth | 1 | |
| 5768898601 | Malapropism | A confused comically inaccurate use of a long word or words | 2 | |
| 5768901268 | Cadence | Rising and falling of rhythm of speech | 3 | |
| 5768910583 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions | 4 | |
| 5768915206 | Litotes | Understatement | 5 | |
| 5768916223 | Chiasmus | Reversal of order of words in second of two parallel phrases | 6 | |
| 5768921989 | Polysyndeton | Use of several conjunctions in close succession | 7 | |
| 5768926930 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of clause | 8 | |
| 5768932480 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one line or phrase to begging the next | 9 | |
| 5768935914 | Metonymy | One word or phrase is substituted for another word closely associated | 10 | |
| 5768940289 | Apostrophe | Digression in the form of an address to someone not present; personified object or idea | 11 | |
| 5768950452 | Invective | Verbally abusive attack | 12 | |
| 5768954861 | Zeugma | Use of word to modify or govern two or more words | 13 | |
| 5768959040 | Synecdone | Part is used to represent whole | 14 | |
| 5768963914 | Anachronism | Someone or something that is not in right historical or chronological time | 15 | |
| 5768969585 | Circumlocution | Use of unnecessarily large number of words | 16 | |
| 5768976202 | Conundrum | Riddle whose answer is a pun | 17 | |
| 5768980247 | Isocolon/parison | Class approximately equal length and structure | 18 | |
| 5768982785 | Begging the question | Supporting claim with a reason, restatement of the claim in diff words | 19 |