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| 6051132718 | tenor | the thing being described in a figure of speech | 0 | |
| 6051132719 | vehicle | the concrete image in the figure of speech | 1 | |
| 6051132720 | figures of speech / tropes | all the types of figurative language that involve some kind of comparison, either explicit or implicit | 2 | |
| 6051132721 | metaphor | a direct comparison between two unlike things "his words were sharp knives" | 3 | |
| 6051132722 | implied metaphor | a metaphor in which either the tenor or the vehicle is implied, not stated. "The running back gathered steam and chugged toward the end zone." | 4 | |
| 6051132723 | simile | a comparison using "like" "as" or "than" as a connective device | 5 | |
| 6051132724 | conceit | an extended or far-fetched metaphor, in most cases comparing things that apparently have almost nothing in common "make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete" | 6 | |
| 6051132725 | Petrarchan conceit | named after the first great master of the sonnet, is a clichéd comparison usually relating to a woman's beauty | 7 | |
| 6051132726 | metaphysical conceit | the extended comparisons favored by such so-called metaphysical poets as John Donne, George Herbert, and Edward Taylor. | 8 | |
| 6051132727 | hyperbole | an overstatement, a comparison using conscious exaggeration. "and i will love thee still, my dear, till a' the seas gang dry" | 9 | |
| 6051132728 | understatement | the opposite of a hyperbole "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" | 10 | |
| 6051132729 | Allusion | a metaphor making a direct comparison to a historical or literary event or character, a myth, a biblical reference, and so forth. "he is a Samson of strength but a Judas of duplicity." | 11 | |
| 6051132730 | Metonymy | a use of a related object to stand for the thing actually being talked about. "It's the only white-collar street in this blue collar town" "And O ye high-flown quills that soar the skies, and ever with your prey still catch your praise" | 12 | |
| 6051132731 | Synecdoche | use of a part for the whole or vice versa "before the indifferent beak could let her drop" | 13 | |
| 6051132732 | Personification | giving human characteristics to nonhuman things or to abstractions | 14 | |
| 6051132733 | apostrophe | a variety of personification in which a nonhuman thing, abstraction, or person not physically present is directly addressed as if it could respond. "Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour." | 15 | |
| 6051132734 | paradox | an apparent contradiction or illogical statement | 16 | |
| 6051132735 | oxymoron | a short paradox, usually consisting of an adjective and noun with conflicting meanings | 17 | |
| 6051132736 | synesthesia | a conscious mixing of two different types of sensory experience "a raw, red wind rushed from the north" | 18 | |
| 6051132737 | transferred epithet | not, strictly speaking, a trope; it occurs when an adjective is "transferred" from the word it actually modifies to a nearby word. "the plowman homeward plods his weary way." (the plowman is weary, not the way he walks) | 19 | |
| 6051194743 | allegory | a narrative which exists on at least two levels: a concrete literal level and an abstract, symbolic level. There is parallelism between the two levels. | 20 | |
| 6051200070 | symbol | any concrete thing or action that implies a meaning beyond its literal sense | 21 | |
| 6051204839 | traditional symbols | symbols that hold roughly the same meanings for members of a given society | 22 | |
| 6051211606 | private symbol | symbol that has acquired certain meanings from a single poet's repeated use of it | 23 | |
| 6051216447 | incidental symbols | things that are not usually considered symbolic but may be in a particular poem, or symbolic acts, a situation or response that seems of greater than literal meaning | 24 |
