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| 15024759113 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing EX: saying that one has "passed away" | 0 | |
| 15024759114 | oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction EX: Wolfshelm eating with "ferocious delicacy" | 1 | |
| 15024759115 | metaphor | a figure or speech in which a word for a phrase is applied to an object or action to church it is not literally applicable EX: Gatsby throwing around his shirts represents him flaunting his money | 2 | |
| 15024759116 | Litotes | ironic understatement EX: Gatsby refers to the accident on the road "you see that little detour" | 3 | |
| 15024759117 | cliché | a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack or original thought it a sterotypical idea. EX: male dominance, female gold digger | 4 | |
| 15024759118 | personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human character to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. EX:A "half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel" | 5 | |
| 15024759119 | idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deductable from those of the individual words EX: "Daisy's voice was made of money" | 6 | |
| 15024759120 | slimile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description word more emphatic or vivid | 7 | |
| 15024759121 | analogy | a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification EX: "Tom compared a person leaving their rich husband for a poor one to interracial marriage" | 8 | |
| 15024759122 | junxtaposation | the fact of two things being close together or places with contrasting effect. EX: The heat of ch.7 is juxtaposed with Daisy's phrase "you look so cool" | 9 | |
| 15024759123 | antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else EX: East Egg and the Valley of the Ashes, so therefore Tom and George live... | 10 | |
| 15024759124 | synecdocge | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole EX: Owl eyes is reffered to by his glasses | 11 | |
| 15024759125 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute if adjunct for that thing ment EX: the use of the East Egg and West Egg as a reference to the people that inhabit it | 12 | |
| 15024759126 | paradox | a seemingly absurb over self contradictory statement or a proposition that when invested or explained may prove to be well founded or true EX: I like large parties, they are so intimate | 13 | |
| 15024759127 | apostrophe | when the speaker speaks directly to someone who is not present or is dead, or speak to an inanimate object. EX: "romeo o Romeo where for art thou" | 14 | |
| 15024759128 | hyperbole | exaggerate statements or claims not ment to be taken lightly EX: I've been lying on that couch for as long as I can remember | 15 |
