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alliteration

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repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence

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allusion

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brief reference to a person, event , or place real or 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 ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

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archaic diction

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old fashioned or outdated choice of words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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cunulative sentence

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

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inversion

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inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)

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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 explain by comparison

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metonymy

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using a single feature to represent the whole

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oxymoron

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paradoxical juxtaposition of worlds

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parallelism

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similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

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periodic sentence

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sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

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personification

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attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea

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rhetorical question

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figure of speech in the 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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use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings