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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence

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Allusion

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Brief reference to a person, event, place, real of fictitious, or to a work of art

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or lines

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words in reverse order

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Antithesis

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Opposition, or contrast, of words or ideas in a balanced or parallel construction

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Archaic diction

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Old fashioned or out dated choice of words

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Asyndeton

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Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words

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Cumulative sentence

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Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and the builds and adds on

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Hortative sentence

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Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore or entreat

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Inversion

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Inverted order of words in a sentence

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Juxtaposition

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Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

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Metaphor

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Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to lexplain by comparison

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Metonymy

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Using a single feature to represent a whole

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Oxymoron

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Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

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Parallelism

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Similarity of structure Ina pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

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Periodic sentence

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Sentence who’s main clause is withheld until the end

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Personification

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Attributing a lifelike quality to an inanimate object

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Rhetorical question

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Figure of speech in a form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

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Zeugma

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Using two often different words Ina grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings