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metaphor
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figure of speech saying one thing is another
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similie
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figure of speech that uses like/as to compare two things
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personification
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attribution of life like qualities to an innatimate idea or object
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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alliteration
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repetition of same sound beginning several words in sequence
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allusion
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brief reference to person, event, etc. to be a work of art
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archaic diction
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out-dated choice of words
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oxymoron
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paradoxal juxtaposition of words that contradict
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zeugma
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a figure of speech in which an adjective or verb is used with two nouns but is appropriate to only one of them or has a different sense with each
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as in "During the race he broke the record and his leg"
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imagery
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vivid language that evokes the senses
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Apostrophe
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figure of speech in which one addresses absent or imaginary person or some abstraction
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"Papa above! Regard a mouse." -Emily Dickenson addresses God
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conceit
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fanciful, particularly cleverly extended metaphor
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"She is as in a field a silken tent." -Robert Frost
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epigram
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a brief pithy and often paradoxical saying
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"Only those deserving of scorn are apprehensive of it."
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euphemism
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indirect way of saying something considered unnpleasant
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lady of the evening = whore
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dissonance
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harsh, inharmonious, or dischordant sounds
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idiom
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expression in given language that cannot be understood from literal meaning of the words in exposition
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"I'll be there shortly."
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invective
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intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack
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litotes
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type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite
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"It was not a pretty picture." describing a horrific scene
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metonymy
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substitiuting name of one object for another object closely associated with it
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"The pen is mightier than the sword."
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pun
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play on words often achieved through use of words with similar sounds but different meanings
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"We told the sexton and the sexton tolled the bell."
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synecdoche
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using one part of an object to represent the entire object
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referring to a car as "wheels"
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tautology
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needless repitition which adds no meaning or understanding
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"PIN number" or "widow woman"
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understatement
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deliberate rerpresentation of something as lesser in magnitude than it acutally is: a deliberate under emphasis
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"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." -Mark Twain
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