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| Repetition of an initial consonant sound. |
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| Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with EPIPHORA and EPISTROPHE). |
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| The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. |
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| Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character. |
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| Idenity or similiarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. |
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| A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. |
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| The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explict. |
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| An extravagant statement. |
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| The use of words to convey the oppsite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the apperance or presentation of the idea. |
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| A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. |
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