synecdoche

b. a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole.

c. "Yet I shall kill thee with much cherishing.
Goodnight, goodnight. Parting is such sweet
sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

(Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet)

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polysendeton

b. the deliberate use of many conjuctions, the effect being to slow down the sentence.

c. "We have ships and men and money and stores...
He ran and jumped and laughed for joy."

(Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)

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litotes

b. the deliberate use of understatement.

c. "[W]ith a vigorous and sudden snatch, I brought my assailant harmlessly, his full length, on the not over clean ground--for we were now in the cow yard."
(Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855)

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paradox

b. apparently contradictory statment that nevertheless contains some measure of truth.

c. "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
(C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

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anthimeria

b. the substituion of one part of speech for another.

c."I'll unhair thy head.)

(Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, II, v.)

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periphasis

b. the substition of a descrpitive word or phrase for a proper namer or for a proper name for a quantity.

c. "I have observed that within the time I subsituted for your class, the class participated in behaviours that were most unruly and displeasing in general."

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epigram

b.a witty, ingenious, and pointed saying that is tersely expressed.

c."To see a world in a grain of sand,And a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour"

(William Blake's Augueries of Innocence)

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