14954518759 | analogy | a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is different from it | 0 | |
14954521386 | catachresis | a figure of speech in which writers use mixed metaphors in an inappropriate way, to create rhetorical effect; an exaggerated comparison between two objects or ideas | 1 | |
14954521387 | conceit | a kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising, clever way; extended metaphors that dominate an entire passage or poem | 2 | |
14954526181 | mixed metaphor | a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect | 3 | |
14954526182 | eponym | a name of a legend or real person that writers associate with some other object, institution, or thing; | 4 | |
14954529978 | synesthesia | a technique to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense at a given time | 5 | |
14954529979 | metanoia | a self correction; when a writer or speaker deliberately goes back and modifies a statement that they just made, to either strengthen it or soften it in some way | 6 |
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