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| 40901154 | metaphor | figure of speech in which one thing is referred to another: "my love is a fragile flower" | |
| 40901155 | simile | figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities: "the sky looked like an artist's canvas" | |
| 40901156 | synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean a stage of "wheels" to mean a car or "all hands on deck" | |
| 40901157 | metonymy | figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch also "the pen is mightier than the sword" | |
| 40901158 | personification | attribution to human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object | |
| 40901159 | syllepsis | the use of a single word in such a way that it is syntactically related to two or more words elsewhere in the sentence, but has a different meaning in relation to each of the other words: "there is a certain type of woman who'd rather PRESS grapes than clothes." "When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes" | |
| 40901160 | onomatopoeia | use of words that sound that sound like what they mean such as "hiss", "Buzz", "slam", "boom" | |
| 40901161 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis: "he was so hungry he could have eaten a horse" | |
| 40901162 | litotes | trope in which one makes a deliberate understatement for emphasis: "young lovers are kissing each other and one says, i think they like each other" | |
| 40901163 | rhetorical question | one that does not expect an explicit answer. used to pose an idea to be considered by the speaker or audience | |
| 40901164 | irony | situation or statement i which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what was expected | |
| 40901165 | oxymoron | figure of speech composed to contradictory words or phrases: "wise fool", "bitter-sweet" | |
| 40901166 | paradox | statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning: "i never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude" | |
| 40901167 | parallelism | technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. | |
| 40901168 | antithesis | presentation of two contrasting images: "to be or not to be" "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" | |
| 40901169 | ellipsis | mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word or a phrase from the original text. | |
| 40901170 | asyndeton | commas used to separate a series of words: instead of X,Y, AND Z; X, Y, Z | |
| 40901171 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck | |
| 40901172 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants | |
| 40901173 | anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. Helps make the writer's point more coherent | |
| 40901174 | chiasmus | arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern XYYX; often short and summarizes the main idea: "let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate" | |
| 40901175 | polysyndeton | sentence which uses AND or another conjunction (without commas) to separate the items in a series: X AND Y AND Z |
