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Alliteration

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Words that begin with the same sound

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Assonance

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Same vowel sounds repeated with in words

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Parallel structure

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Grammar pattern that repeats in series of sentences.

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Rhetorical question

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Question with an answer already implied, meant to be persuasive

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word at beginning of the series of clausses or sentences

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Epistrophe

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Repetition at the end of the series of clauses or sentences

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration, overstatement

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Litotes

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Understatement

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Hyperbaton

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In version of the arrangement of common words

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Apostrophe

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Speaker addresses absent figure person or idea

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Synecdoche

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Using of something to represent the whole

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