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Alliteration
Repition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.
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Allusion
Brief refernce to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art.
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Anaphora
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive phrases, clauses or lines.
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Antimetabole
Repetition of words in reverse order.
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Antithesis
Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balance or parallel construction.
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Archaic Diciton
Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.
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Asyndeton
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
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Cumulative Sentence
Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then build and adds on.
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Hortative Sentence
Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action.
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Imperative Sentence
Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat.
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Inversion
Inverted Order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order).
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Juxtapostion
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts.
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Metaphor
Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison.
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Metonymy
Using a single feature to represent the whole.
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Oxymoron
Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another.
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Parallelism
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
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Periodic Sentence
Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.
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Personification
Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea.
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Rhetorical Question
Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather then fro the purpose of getting an answer.
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Zeugma
Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meaning.
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