allusion - A reference to something or someone famous or well-known, metaphor - comparison to two unlike things, simile - comparison using "like" or "as" or "seems", personification - giving inanimate objects human characterisitics, alliteration - the repetition of consonant letters at the beginning of words, assonance - the repetition of vowels sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse, consonance - repetition of the same consonant sounds repeating in a group of words, onomatopoeia - use of words that sound like their meaning, hyperbole - gross exaggeration for effect or to highlight something, understatement - purposefully making something seem less important for emphasis, oxymoron - intentional use of an apparent contradiction, rhetorical question - a question not intended to be answered, but to evoke deep thought, parallelism - a similarity in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses, juxtaposition - placing two things closely together to emphasize the comparisons or contrasts, sentence variation - The use of short sentences contrasted with long sentences, repetition - repetition of words or phrases for emphasis , antithesis (contrast) - when the parallel elements contrast with one another, tricolon (rule of three) - use of three parallel phrases, often building support,

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