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  1. noun An expression that uses language in a nonliteral way, such as a metaphor or synecdoche, or in a structured or unusual way, such as anaphora or chiasmus, or that employs sounds, such as alliteration or assonance, to achieve a rhetorical effect.

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constructio ad sensum · paraleipsis · periphrasis · reticentia · tmesis · transferred epithet · alliteration · anacoluthon · anadiplosis · anaphora · anastrophe

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