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| any artful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentece |
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| any artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea expressed |
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| repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or middle of tow or more words |
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| repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of tow or more words |
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| retition of the same group of words at the begging of successive clauses |
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| repetition of the same group of words at the end of successive clause |
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| repition of the last word of one clause at the beginning. |
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| reptition of words, phrases,or clauses in order of increasing number or importance |
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| an entity is refereed to by one of its attributes |
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| inanimate objects are given human characteristics |
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| a descriptive word or phrase is used to refer to a proper name |
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| a word that suggests two of its meanings |
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| one part of speech, usually a verb, substitutes for another, usually a noun |
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| sounds of the words uses are related to their meaning |
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| words are meant to convey the opposite of their literal meaning |
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| words that have apparently contradictory meanings are place near each other |
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| a question is designed not to secure an answer but to move the development of an idea forward and suggest a point |
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| adding a syllable in front of a word |
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| adding a syllable in the middle of a word |
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| adding a syllable at the end of the word |
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| subtracting a syllable from the beginning of a word |
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| subtracting a syllable from the end of the word |
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| transposition of letters in a word |
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| similarity of structure in a pair of related words |
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| inversion of the natural or usual word order |
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| insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence |
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| placing side by side two coordinate elements |
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| words which are readily supplied by the context |
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| deliberate omission of conjunctions between related clauses |
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| an explicit comparison between two things using like and as |
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| a figure of speech in which a part stands fro the whole |
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| the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory |
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