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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Repeating the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	Anadiplosis	100%
Repeating the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses	Anaphora	100%
Juxtaposing contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure	Antithesis	100%
Claiming to want to avoid mentioning something—or pretending to deny what is really implied—and thereby mentioning or implying it(e.g. "I don't want to say anything bad about another doctor, especially one who's a useless drunk")	Apophasis	100%
To ask questions to rebuke or reproach rather than to elicit answers	Epiplexis	100%
Raising questions and answering them	Hypophora	100%
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; can be verbal, situational, or dramatic	Irony	100%
An implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common	Metaphor	100%
Intentionally repeating conjunctions for effect	Polysyndeton	100%
Asking a question to assert or deny something obliquely without an expected answer	Rhetorical Question	100%
An explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common, using "as" or "like"	Simile	100%
Piling up many adjectives next to each other	Synathroesmus	100%
A figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed	Anastrophe	0%
Similar to the above, but each repetition only changes the word's meaning	Antanaclasis	0%
The repetition of words in different or contrary sense	Antistasis	0%
A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present	Apostrophe	0%
Placing two coordinate elements side by side, the second one explaining or modifying the first	Apposition	0%
Deliberately leaving out conjunctions between a series of related clauses	Asyndeton	0%
Arranging words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance; also called incrementum or gradatio	Climax	0%
The repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words	Diacope	0%
The repetition of a word or a group of words from the beginning of the sentence at the end of said sentence	Epanalepsis	0%
Repeating the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	Epistrophe	0%
Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant	Euphemism	0%
Using exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect	Hyperbole	0%
The use of vivid language designed to appeal to the senses	Imagery	0%
Using understatement to enhance the impressiveness of what we say	Litotes	0%
Repetition of the same word or words in the middle of successive sentences	Mesodiplosis	0%
Words that phonetically imitate and echo the sound being described	Onomatopoeia	0%
Paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another	Oxymoron	0%
Giving abstractions or inanimate objects human qualities or abilities	Personification	0%
A rhetorical repetition of the same root word, with the word being repeated in a different grammatical form each time	Polyptoton	0%
A combination of the two previous answers	Symploce	0%
A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole	Synecdoche	0%
A general term describing when one part of speech governs two or more other parts of a sentence without being directly restated(e.g. "As Virgil guided Dante through Inferno, the Sibyl Aeneas Avernus")	Zeugma	0%

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