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1. Adynaton
2. Allegory
3. Alliteration
4. Allusion
5. Anacoluthon
6. Anadiplosis
7. Analogy
8. Anaphora
9. Anastrophe
10. Antanaclasis
11. Antanagoge
12. Anthimeria
13. Antimetabole
14. Antiphrasis
15. Antithesis
16. Antonomasia
17. Aphaeresis
18. Aphorism
19. Aposiopesis
20. Apostrophe
21. Archaism
22. Assonance
23. Asyndeton
24. Auxesis
25. Bathos
26. Bdelygmia
27. Cacophony
28. Catachresis
29. Catalog
30. Chiasmus
31. Climax
32. Colloquialism
33. Conduplicatio
34. Consonance
35. Diacope
36. Dialogismus
37. Double Entendre
38. Dysphemism
39. Ellipsis
40. Enallage
41. Enjambment
42. Enthymeme
43. Epanelepsis
44. Epiphora
45. Epigram
46. Epiphonema
47. Epistrophe
48. Epithet
49. Eponym
50. Euphemism
51. Euphony
52. Exclamation
53. Hendiadys
54. Heterosis
55. Hiperbaton
56. Histrionics
57. Homograph
58. Homophone
59. Hyperbaton
60. Hyperbole
61. Hypocatastasis
62. Hypophora
63. Hysteron Proteron
64. Idiom
65. Irony
66. Isocolon
67. Kenning
68. Litotes
69. Malapropism
70. Meiosis
71. Merism
72. Metalepsis
73. Metaphor
74. Metaplasmus
75. Metonymy
76. Mondegreen
77. Neologism
78. Onomatopoeia
79. Oxymoron
80. Palindrome
81. Paradox
82. Paralipsis
83. Parallelism
84. Paraprosdokian
85. Paronomasia
86. Parenthesis
87. Pathetic Fallacy
88. Periphrasis
89. Personification
90. Pleonasm
91. Polyptoton
92. Polysyndeton
93. Portmanteau
94. Procatalepsis
95. Prolepsis
96. Prosopopoeia
97. Pun
98. Redundancy
99. Repetition
100. Rhetorical Question
101. Sarcasm
102. Satire
103. Simile
104. Spoonerism
105. Superlative
106. Synaesthesia
107. Synecdoche
108. Tautology
109. Transferred Epithet
110. Tricolon
111. Understatement
112. Verbal Irony