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Onomatopoeia

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Use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes

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Zeugma

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Includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically linkage of two or more parts of speech by another front speech

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Parataxis

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Writing successive independent clauses, with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions

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Exemplum

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Citing an example, using an illustrated story, either true or fiction

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Pleonasm

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Using more words than required to express an idea

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