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All answers to “Name a figure of speech”
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A
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Anacoluthon
- Anadiplosis
- Anaphora
- Anastrophe
- Antanaclasis
- Anticlimax
- Antithesis
- Antonomasia
- Aposiopesis
- Apostrophe
- Assonance
- Asyndeton
B
- Bathos
C
- Catachresis
- Chiasmus
- Clichéalso Cliche
- Climaxalso Auxesis
- Consonance
D
- Dysphemism
E
- Ellipsis
- Enallage
- Epanalepsis
- Epistrophe
- Epithet
- Epizeuxis
- Euphemism
H
- Hendiadys
- Hypallage
- Hyperbaton
- Hyperbole
- Hypophora
- Hysteron proteron
I
- Idiom
- Irony
- Isocolon
K
- Kenning
L
- Litotes
M
- Malapropism
- Meiosis
- Merism
- Metalepsis
- Metaphor
- Metonymy
O
- Onomatopoeia
- Oxymoron
P
- Paradox
- Paralipsisalso Apophasis
- Parenthesis
- Paronomasia
- Pathetic fallacy
- Periphrasisalso Circumlocution
- Personification
- Pleonasm
- Polyptoton
- Polysyndeton
- Praeteritio
- Prolepsis
- Pun
R
- Rhetorical question
S
- Sarcasm
- Simile
- Spoonerism
- Syllepsis
- Symploce
- Synecdoche
- Synesthesia
T
- Tautology
- Tmesis
- Tricolon
U
- Understatement
Z
- Zeugma
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