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| 2922384164 | Allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning may have moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity, greed, or envy. |  | 0 |
| 2922384165 | Character Allegory | Characters that represent various ideal qualities an allegory specific to one or more characters, where a character represents a virtue/vice/concept/etc | 1 | |
| 2922384166 | Apostrophe | Related to personification. Addressing something (or someone) non-living or incapable of response as if it could hear and respond, such as "O, howling wind..." |  | 2 |
| 2922384168 | Metaphor | A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison |  | 3 |
| 2922384169 | Metonymy | Use of a closely related detail for the thing actually meant, such as using "The White House" to refer to the president | 4 | |
| 2922384170 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. (The literal Greek meaning is "overshoot.") Hyperboles often have a comic effect; however, a serious effect is also possible. Often, hyperbole produces irony. The opposite of hyperbole is understatement. | 5 | |
| 2922384171 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. (Think of the beginning of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....") | 6 | |
| 2922384172 | Personification | Attributing human qualities or characteristics to non-living or non-human things in order to create empathy. | 7 | |
| 2922384173 | Simile | A metaphor that uses "like" or "as" or "seems." | 8 | |
| 2922384174 | Epic or Homeric Simile | An extended simile used in epic poems and Greek dramas. A typical epic similes uses "just as" or "so then" to signal the comparison, though that is not always the case. An elaborated comparison; differs from ordinary simile in being more involved and ornate | 9 | |
| 2922384175 | Synecdoche | The use of a part for the whole, such as "all hands on deck" or "the meeting can begin now that all the suits are here." Note: Synecdoche is sometimes represented as metonymy. | 10 | |
| 2922384176 | Symbol | A thing, person, or idea that stands for something else. | 11 | |
| 2922384177 | Understatement | Saying less than the situation warrants. The contrast illuminates the truth. The ironic minimalizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is. The effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic. Understatement is the opposite of hyperbole. Example: Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub: "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse." | 12 | |
| 2922422816 | Idiom | An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally (ex- "Get your head out of the clouds"). | 13 |
