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simile metaphor irony alliteration antithesis apostrophe conceit hyperbole litotes metonymy paradox personification synecdoche rhetoric elocution meaning-linguistics literal-and-figurative-language coherence-theory-of-truth concept draughts apposition renaissance peacham-henry trope-linguistics rhyme-scheme capital-accumulation anacoluthon anadiplosis anaphora anastrophe climax-figure-of-speech antimetabole antistrophe aphorismus aposiopesis assonance asyndeton phonaesthetics classification-literature chiasmus literary-consonance tmesis elliptical-construction enallage-2 enthymeme epanalepsis-2 epistrophe hendiadys hendiatris homograph homonym homophone hypallage-2 hyperbaton isocolon internal-rhyme kenning non-sequitur merism paradiastole parallelism-grammar paraprosdokian parenthesis-rhetoric parrhesia circumlocution-3 pleonasm polyptoton-2 polysyndeton pun spoonerism synchysis synesis synizesis synonymia tautology-rhetoric allegory allusion anacoenosis antanaclasis anthimeria antiphrasis antonomasia apophasis aporia archaism auxesis catachresis euphemism periphrasis correctio epanorthosis double-negative lapsus enumeratio hypophora hysteron-proteron innuendo invocation malapropism meiosis-figure-of-speech |