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| Slang | show 🗑
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| Synecdoche | show 🗑
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| show | The opposite of exaggeration. By using calm language, an author can bring special attention to an object or idea.
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| Alliteration | show 🗑
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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| show | Lack of grammatical sequence; a change in grammatical construction within the same sentence.
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| Anadiplosis(“doubling back”) | show 🗑
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| Analogy | show 🗑
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| show | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.
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| show | A brief story used to make a point.
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| Antistrophe | show 🗑
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| show | Using opposite ideas to emphasize a point.
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| show | A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present.
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| Archaism | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition of the same vowel sound in words close to each other.
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| Asyndeton | show 🗑
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| Colloquialism | show 🗑
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| Exaggeration | show 🗑
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| show | A technique in which a writer interrupts a story to go back and explain an earlier time or event for the purpose of making something in the present more clear.
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| show | Hints or clues about what will happen next in a story.
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| show | Exaggeration used to emphasize a point.
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| show | A word or phrase in which the author says one thing but means just the opposite.
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| show | Putting two words or ideas close together to create a contrasting of ideas or ironic meaning.
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| Litotes | show 🗑
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| show | The use of details that are common to a certain place.
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | Substitution of one word for another that it suggests.
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| show | An exaggeration or a stretching of the truth.
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| show | Connecting two words with opposite meanings.
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| Parallelism | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing is given human characteristics.
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| show | The repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses.
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| Sensory Details | show 🗑
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| Anecdote | show 🗑
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| Antistrophe | show 🗑
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| show | Using opposite ideas to emphasize a point.
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| Apostrophe | show 🗑
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| show | Use of an older or obsolete form.
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| Assonance | show 🗑
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| show | A common word or phrase suitable for ordinary, everyday conversation but not for formal speech or writing.
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| show | An overstatement or stretching of the truth to emphasize a point.
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| Flashback | show 🗑
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| Hyperbole | show 🗑
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| Irony | show 🗑
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| show | Putting two words or ideas close together to create a contrasting of ideas or ironic meaning.
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| show | Understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed.
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| show | The use of details that are common to a certain place.
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | An exaggeration or a stretching of the truth.
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| show | Connecting two words with opposite meanings.
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| Paradox | show 🗑
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| Parallelism | show 🗑
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| Polysyndeton | show 🗑
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| show | Substitution of one word for another that it suggests.
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