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Rhetoric in types of writing like narrative writing and poetry often relies on linguistic tools like figurative language and well-known figures of speech.
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration meant to highlight the issue presented.
Epistrophe
Represents the repetition of a word through successive phrases, clauses, or sentences for the purpose of emphasizing it as a concept.
Meiosis
The reverse of hyperbole, meiosis emphasizes how far outside the norm an issue is, through extreme understatement.
Metaphor
Metaphor figuratively compares two topics by claiming that one literally is the other.
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