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Accumulation

The wind blows south, then returns to the north, round and round goes the wind, on its rounds it circulates.

Accumulation is a literary device that puts together scattered points of similar words to generate a common and deeper feeling in writing. It is a stylistic device used by writers to produce the effect of amplification.

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Adynaton

I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his cheek.

hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility

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Allegory

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Alliteration

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Allusion

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Amblysia

Euphemistic or reduced language to prepare for the announcement of something tragic

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Amphiboly

She saw a man on a hill with a telescope

An ambiguity in the meaning of a sentence caused by grammatical looseness to produce a double meaning.

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Anachronism

The misplacement of an action, character, phrase, or setting in time. Anachronisms may be used deliberately to distance events and to underline a universal verisimilitude and timelessness.

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Anacoluthon

The good stuff – think about it.

A sentence that is begun in one way, but then ended in a different way, usually with a hyphen linking two disparate clauses. create a stream-of-consciousness style in which a character's thoughts flit from one idea to the next

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Anadiplosis

Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task

The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause.

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Analogue

– A word or thing that is similar or parallel to another, to the point that most salient features are alike

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Anaphora

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Anastrophe

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Anecdote

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Anesis

A rhetorical device in which a concluding sentence, clause, or phrase is used to deliberately diminish or discredit the previous statements.

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Antanaclasis

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Anthropomorphism

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Anthimeria

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Antipophora

– A character asks a question of themself, and then answers by themself.

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Antimetabole

– The repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.

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Antonomasia

– The substitution of a proper noun for an epithet, title, occupation associated with that object or person.

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Aphorism

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Aposiopesis

like opp of anacoluthon

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Apostrophe

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Archaism

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Assonance

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Asyndeton

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Aside

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Bathos

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Bathetic

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Black Comedy

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Blank verse

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Blazon

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Bombast

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Burlesque

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Cacophony

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Caesura

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Catachresis

The misapplication of a word or metaphor, particularly when used in a mixed metaphor.

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Catalexis

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Catharsis

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Chiasmus

A reversal of grammatical structure in subsequent clauses or phrases with different words.

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Circumlocution

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Cliche

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Conceit

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Connotation

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Consonance

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Couplet

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Defamilarisation

The modification of a reader’s habitual perceptions by drawing attention to the artifice of the text, or the peculiarities of the writing itself.

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Denotation

The most literal and limited meaning of a word, regardless of any additional feelings or connotations that have evolved for it.

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Depitation

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Dissonance

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Double entendre

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Dramatic Irony

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Dysphemism

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Ecphonema

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Ekphrasis

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Elegy

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Elision

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Ellipsis

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Enjambment

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Epanados

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Epanalepsis

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Epexegesis

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Epideictic oratory

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Epistrophe

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Epitasis

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Epizeuxis

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Euphemism

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Euphony

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Farce

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Feminine rhyme

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Flyting

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Foreshadowing

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Free Verse

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Hamartia

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Hemistich

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Hendiadys

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Homonym

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Homophone

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Hubris

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Hypallage

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Hyperbaton

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Hyperbole

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Hypocorism

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Hypostatisation

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Hypotyposis

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Hypozeuxis

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Idiom

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Imagery

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Invective

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Inversion

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Invocation

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Irony

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Isocolon

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Jargon

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Kenning

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Light Rhyme

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Litotes

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Malapropism

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Masculine Rhyme

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