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| 5725082849 | Alliteration | Repetition of an initial consonant sound, used to create emphasis or establish a Ruth In the text; ex ( Peter piper picked a peck of pickle peppers ) | 0 | |
| 5725082850 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases, used to crest emphasis or establishes a rhythm in the text; ex ( my life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration. ) | 1 | |
| 5725082851 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases; ex (. Give Everyman thy ear. But few thy voice...) | 2 | |
| 5725082852 | Apostrophe | Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or nonexistent character. Ex ( twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder where you are) | 3 | |
| 5725082853 | Assonance | Identity of similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. Ex ( the engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle ) | 4 | |
| 5725082854 | Asyndeton | A series of words separated by commas with no conjunction; the parts of the sentences are emphasized equally. This is a form of verbal compression that speeds up the flow of the sentence by omitting connecting words like conjunctions. (Lacks and,but,if) ex ( she ran, jumped, vaulted, landed- a perfect 10 ) | 5 | |
| 5725082855 | Euphemism | The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive term of one considered offensive explicit. Ex ( adult entertainment instead of porn ) | 6 | |
| 5725082856 | Hyperbole | An extra agent statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. Ex ( it was so cold o saw polar bears wearing jacket ) | 7 | |
| 5725082857 | Irony | The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement or situation where the mean is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. Ex ( in rimes and Juliet, Romeo finds Juliet in a drugged state and he thinks she is dead. He kills himself. When Juliet wakes up she finds Romeo dead and kills herself) | 8 | |
| 5725082858 | Metaphor | An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. Ex ( the classroom was a zoo ) | 9 | |
| 5725082859 | Onomatopoeia | The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or action they refer to. Ex ( Bloop, splash, drip, spray, Boom" ) | 10 | |
| 5725082860 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. Ex ( Great Depression, jumbo shrimp, act naturally, pretty ugly) | 11 | |
| 5725082861 | Paradox | A statement that appears to contradict itself. ex (I can resist anything but temptation) | 12 | |
| 5725082863 | Polysyndeton | Sentences which uses and or othe conjunctions ( with no commas) to separate the items in a series ; it's stresses each member equally in a sentence. Ex ( let the white folks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and lawns) | 13 | |
| 5725082864 | Pun | A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes similar sense or sound of different words. Ex (the grammar was very logical. He had comma sense | 14 | |
| 5725082866 | Tricolon | The use of three parallel constructions in a series as a way to enhance you writing. Ex ( when the night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy on our hearts. When our best laid plans are beyond our reach) | 15 | |
| 5725082867 | Understatement | When a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious then it is. Ex ( it is a bit cold today ( it's below freezing) ) | 16 | |
| 5725082868 | Zeugma | The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words, usually in such a manner that applies to each in a different sense. Ex (the farmer in the valley grew potatoes, peanuts, and bored) | 17 |