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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or words at the begging of successive phrases or clauses

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same letter or sound at the begging of consecutive or adjacent words

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Anastrophe/hyperbaton

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Inversion of the usual order of words

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Aposiopesis

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Sudden breaking off in a sentence, making it incomplete, although its meaning is clear

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Apostrophe

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Address in an exclamatory tone to an absent person

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Assonance

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Close recurrence of the same or similar vowel sounds at the begging, middle, or end of words in a sentence

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Asyndeton

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Omission of connectives between all members of a series of words, phrases, or clauses

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Chiasmus

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Arrangement or corresponding pairs of words in opposite order

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Ellipsis

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Omission of a word or words that are understood and are necessary to complete the grammatical structure of the sentence and the sense

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Epithet

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Descriptive term attached to the names of certain places or things

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Hendiadys

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Use of two nouns connected by a conjunction instead of one noun with a modifier

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Hyperbolae

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Rhetorical exaggeration

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Litotes

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An understatement (two negatives make a positive)

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Metonymy

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Substitution for a given word of another of closely kindred meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of a word whose sound suggest its meaning

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Oxymoron

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An apparent contradiction in terms

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Personification

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Endowing of certain inanimate things with human attributes

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Polysyndeton

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Use of unnecessary conjunctions

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Synecdoche

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Use of a part of a unit to represent the whole

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Tmesis

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Separation of parts of a compound works by one + intervening words

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Zeugma

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The use of a verb/adjective with two meanings

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Microcosm

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Encapsulating the characteristics of something much larger in a miniature

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Good language

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Elaborate
Abundance
Minute
Provokes
Objectively
Comprehend
Ominous
Intent
Intricate
Awe
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Monosyllabic

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Simplicity
Focuses on emotion
Sensory perception

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