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| 7958919697 | Figure of Speech | A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level. | 0 | |
| 7958919698 | Figurative Language | Language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally. | 1 | |
| 7958919699 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, and abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding. | 2 | |
| 7958919700 | Hyperbole | The use of exaggeration to express strong emotion or comic effect. It is also known as overstatement. | 3 | |
| 7958919701 | Metonymy/Synecdoche | It is a form of metaphor that uses a closely related idea for the idea itself, such as "...every nation, tribe, and tongue" (instead of language) or "I love Shakespeare" (instead of his literary works). It is also a part of something used to signify the whole, such as "Get your butt in here right now!" | 4 | |
| 7958919702 | Overstatement | Exaggeration in the service of truth for an effect. | 5 | |
| 7958919703 | Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality. | 6 | |
| 7958919704 | Personification | The giving of human attributes to an animal, thing, of idea. | 7 | |
| 7958919705 | Paradox | An apparent or seeming contradiction which is nevertheless true like "life after death." | 8 | |
| 7958919706 | Anthropomorphism | The assignment of human characteristics to a god, an animal, or an inanimate object [such as expressed in Exodus 15:26: "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes...]. | 9 | |
| 7958919707 | Metaphor | The comparison of two seemingly unlike things. | 10 | |
| 7958919708 | Analogy | A comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects. | 11 | |
| 7958919709 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas or words, such as "bitter sweet," "jumbo shrimp," and "good grief." | 12 | |
| 7958919710 | Pun | A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings, such as sole and soul. | 13 | |
| 7958919711 | Understatement | Saying less than one means. It may exist not only in what one says, but also in how one says it. | 14 |
