14720889488 | Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" | 0 | |
14720890971 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 1 | |
14720892138 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 2 | |
14720894712 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | 3 | |
14720898467 | Periphrasis | substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name | 4 | |
14720900301 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | 5 | |
14720900302 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 6 | |
14720900992 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 7 | |
14720901908 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 8 | |
14720904051 | Aliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 9 | |
14720904834 | Pun | A play on words | 10 | |
14720905953 | malapropism | a word humorously misused | 11 | |
14720906875 | wordplay | the witty exploitation of the meanings and ambiguities of words, especially in puns | 12 | |
14720910237 | Paronomasia | wordplay based upon similar rather than identical sounds (e.g. roots/ rots). | 13 | |
14720914704 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 14 | |
14720916320 | double epithet | two words of identical or almost identical meaning joined by a conjunction. The chief effect is richness or plenitude of style: "extravagant and erring," "foul and pestilent." One of Shakespeare's favorite devices; usually combines a Latinate and an Anglo-Saxon word. | 15 | |
14720918303 | Transposition | rearrangement of normal word order for effect | 16 | |
14720919674 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 17 | |
14720921977 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 18 | |
14720921978 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 19 | |
14720923862 | Connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 20 |
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