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Rhetorical devices

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zeugma   has been listed 78 times with 27 comments

understatement   has been listed 4 times with 1 comment

synecdoche   has been listed 159 times with 6 comments

symploce   has been listed 10 times with 0 comments

simile   has been listed 25 times with 17 comments

sententia   has been listed 4 times with 0 comments

scesis onomaton   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

rhetorical question   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

procatalepsis   has been listed 4 times with 0 comments

polysyndeton   has been listed 18 times with 5 comments

pleonasm   has been listed 71 times with 10 comments

personification   has been listed 19 times with 0 comments

parenthesis   has been listed 18 times with 0 comments

parataxis   has been listed 23 times with 0 comments

parallelism   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments

oxymoron   has been listed 69 times with 7 comments

onomatopoeia   has been listed 216 times with 8 comments

metonymy   has been listed 103 times with 3 comments

metaphor   has been listed 47 times with 10 comments

metanoia   has been listed 16 times with 2 comments

metabasis   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

litotes   has been listed 55 times with 3 comments

hypotaxis   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

hypophora   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

hyperbole   has been listed 91 times with 7 comments

hyperbaton   has been listed 12 times with 3 comments

expletive   has been listed 18 times with 1 comment

exemplum   has been listed 3 times with 1 comment

eponym   has been listed 30 times with 0 comments

epizeuxis   has been listed 14 times with 2 comments

epithet   has been listed 51 times with 0 comments

epistrophe   has been listed 9 times with 0 comments

epanalepsis   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments

enumeratio   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

enthymeme   has been listed 12 times with 0 comments

distinctio   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

dirimens copulatio   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

diacope   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

conduplicatio   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

climax   has been listed 20 times with 4 comments

chiasmus   has been listed 65 times with 20 comments

catachresis   has been listed 55 times with 2 comments

asyndeton   has been listed 19 times with 3 comments

assonance   has been listed 36 times with 2 comments

appositive   has been listed 4 times with 0 comments

apostrophe   has been listed 50 times with 17 comments

aposiopesis   has been listed 55 times with 7 comments

aporia   has been listed 51 times with 3 comments

apophasis   has been listed 34 times with 3 comments

antithesis   has been listed 87 times with 0 comments

antiphrasis   has been listed 5 times with 0 comments

antimetabole   has been listed 10 times with 3 comments

antanagoge   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

anaphora   has been listed 38 times with 3 comments

analogy   has been listed 13 times with 1 comment

anadiplosis   has been listed 12 times with 1 comment

anacoluthon   has been listed 23 times with 1 comment

amplification   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

allusion   has been listed 26 times with 0 comments

alliteration   has been listed 52 times with 2 comments

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