figures of speech
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FIGURES OF SPEECH
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It is used within poems, stories & novels to help bring emotion, meaning, and imagination to the
reader.
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Simile
A comparison using the words like or as.
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Metaphor
A comparison which does not use the words like or as.
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Personification
An embodiment or representation of an
object as having life or human attribute.
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Hyperbole or Exaggeration
Over stating a statement or
situation.
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Metonym
Naming of a thing by its symbolic
attribute.
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Synecdoche
A part is put for a whole or a whole for
a part.
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Litotes
An assertion is made by means of negation
or understatement.
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Antithesis
The balancing of contrasted words or ideas against each
other.
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Irony or Sarcasm
To signify the opposite of what is
usually express.
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Epigram
Contrasting of words or ideas in a sentence
in a way of provoking.
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Rhetorical Question
A question that doesn’t waits for an
answer.
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Transferred Epithets
Use to express some characteristics
attributes or quality.
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Euphemism
A mild or agreeable expression substituted for
realistic description of something disagreeable.
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Allusion
Consisting of a passing, but significant reference to a well-known person,
place or event.
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Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like their meaning.
Imitative word.
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