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| repitition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence |
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| breif reference to a person, event or place, real or fictious or to a work of art |
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| repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines |
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| repitition of words in reverse order |
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| opposition or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction |
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| old-fashioned or outdated choice of words |
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| omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words |
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| sentence that completes the main idea at the beginnig of the sentence and then builds and adds on |
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| sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action |
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| sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat |
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| inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) |
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| placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts |
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| figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison |
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| using a single feature to represent the whole |
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| paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another |
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| similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses |
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| sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end |
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| attribution of a human quality to an inanimate object or idea |
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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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| use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings |
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