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Alliteration: Repetition of an initial consonant sound
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Analogy: Reasoning or explaining from parallel cases. Examples are similes and metaphors.
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Anaphora: Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses
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Antithesis: The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
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Aposiopesis: An unfinished thought or broken sentence.
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Apostrophe: to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
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Assonance: similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
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Chiasmus: A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed
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Euphemism: The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
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Hyperbole: An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
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Irony: The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea
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Litotes: A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
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Malapropism: Absurd or humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with another similar sounding word.
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Metaphor: An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common
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Metonymy: A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
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Onomatopoeia: The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
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Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
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Paradox: A statement that appears to contradict itself
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Personification: A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities
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Pun: A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
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Simile: A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
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Synechdoche: A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it
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Understatement: A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is
