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1. A figure of speech in which an orator or writer ends a sentence with the same word with which it was begun.

2. A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.

3. A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.

4. A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.

5. Rhetoric repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

6. A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures.

7. A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage.

8. A disclosure or statement that is less than complete.

9. A transposition of sounds of two or more words, especially a ludicrous one.

10. The use of more words than are required to express an idea; redundancy.

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