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Litotes

Litotes is a figure of speech featuring


a phrase that utilizes negative wording or
terms to express a positive assertion or
statement.

There's nothing like your smile


Sort of subtle and perfect and real
Oxymoron
Oxymoron is a figure of speech pairing
two words together that are opposing
and/or contradictory.

But what do you do when there's this great divide?


Anaphora
Anaphora is a rhetorical device that
features repetition of a word
or phrase at the beginning of successive
sentences, phrases, or clauses.

That you still fill out the quizzes


That they put in those teen magazines
Anaphora
Anaphora is a rhetorical device that
features repetition of a word
or phrase at the beginning of successive
sentences, phrases, or clauses.

He couldn't talk to you


He couldn't find the way
Anaphora
Anaphora is a rhetorical device that
features repetition of a word
or phrase at the beginning of successive
sentences, phrases, or clauses.

If I could tell her, tell her everything I see


If I could tell her how she's everything to me
Assonance
Assonance is a literary device in which
the repetition of similar vowel sounds
takes place in two or more words in
proximity to each other within a line.

He thought you looked really pretty…

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