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Antithesis
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The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure
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Anastrophe
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The inversion of the natural order of words
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Metaphor
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An implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common
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Simile
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An explicit comparison between two unlike things, employing "like," "as," or "than."
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Synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole
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Metonymy
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Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant
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Personification
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Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities
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Apostrophe
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Addressing an absent person or a personified abstraction
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Hyperbole
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The use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
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Oxesis
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Magnifying the importance or gravity or something by referring to it with a disproportionate name
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Litotes
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Deliberate use of understatement, not to deceive someone but to enhance the impressiveness of what we say
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Irony
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Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word
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Alliteration
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The repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words
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Assonance
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The repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words
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Anaphora
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The repetition of the same word or groups of words at the BEGINNINGS of successive clauses or lines
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