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hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis
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hendiadys | use of 2 words connected by a conjungtion
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euphemism | substitution of an agreeable or at least non offensive expression
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hysteron-proteron | inversion of the natural sequence of events
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irony | expression of something which is contrary to intended meaning
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litotes | understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed
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metaphor | comparison
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metonymy | substitution of one word for another which it suggests
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nosism | the royal WE
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onomatopeia | use of words to imitate natural sounds
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oxymoron | apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another
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pleonasm | use of superfluous words, redundant
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polysyndeton | repeating conjunctions in a series of words
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preterition | saying something by stating you won't mention it
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similie | comparison using like or as
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rhetorical question | asked to lead/persuade someone
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syllepsis | use of word w/ 2 others, which each of which is understood differently
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symmetry | balanced
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synedoche | use of part of object to represent whole
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tmesis | seperation of compound word by inverting another word
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triad | group of 3
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zeugma | 2 different words lined to a verb or an adj which is strictly appropriate to only one of them
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alliteration | serious of words starting with the same letter
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anadiplosis | double back words, at the end of clause used in the next begginning
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anaphora | repeating a word for emphasis at the beginning of continued phrases
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anastrophe | catastrophe of normal word order
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antistrophe | repitition of same word or phrase at the end of a successive clause
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aporia | expression of doubt by which a speaker appears uncertain
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aposiopesis | form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to aburpt halt
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asyndeton | lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases
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chiasmus | 2 corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels but in inverted order
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climax | arrangement of words for ascending power
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