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Figure of Speech - Quiz #5 Online Dictionary!
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.