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78319271imagerydrawing a picture with words
78319272euphemismsubstituting a mild word or phrase for a harsh one
78319273metonymysubstituting a related term for an idea at hand
78319274metaphorimplied analogy
78319275emotive imageryimagery designed to induce an emotion in the reader
78319276dramatic monologuea poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation
78319277paradoxan apparently self-contradictory statement which is true
78319278onomatopoeiawords whose sounds mimic the sound of the thing being named
78319279understatementverbal irony reporting things a less important that they really are
78319280kenningan OE compound word or phrase used to rename a common noun
78319281allusiona reference to literature or history
78319282personificationhuman characteristics portrayed in non-humans
78319283apostropheaddress to an absent or imaginary person
78319284litotesironical understatement that affirms something by stating the negative
78319285synecdochefigure of speech where part of something stands for the whole
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