literary diveces
a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in ?she is like a rose.? The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form the practice of representing things by symbols, ?or of investing things with a symbolic ?meaning or character. The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point Be a warning or indication of (a future event) a combination of contradictory words the use of words that mean the opposite of what one really intends