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Alliteration |
Reptition of all the initial consonant sound in 2 or more neighboring words |
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Assonance |
Repetition of the same vowel sound in 2 or more neighboring words |
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Hyperbole |
Deliberate exaggeration |
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Metonymy |
The use of a single characteristics to identify the whole |
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Onomatopeia |
A word that imitates sounds |
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Oxymoron |
2 contradictory terms are combined side by side |
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Personification |
Attribution of human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects or abstractions |