Figures Of Speech

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Foreshadowing:

Back 1

hints at what is to come

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Cacophony:

Back 2

use of harsh, discordant sounds for poetic effect

Front 3

Rhythm:

Back 3

the beat

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Persona:

Back 4

pretending to be something in order to write about it

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Allusion:

Back 5

reference to mythology, religion, history, popular culture (comparison)

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Hyperbole:

Back 6

deliberate exaggeration

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Imagery:

Back 7

creating word pictures by using words that appeal to the senses

Front 8

Pun:

Back 8

a word with two meanings

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Euphemism:

Back 9

calling an unpleasant fact by a pleasant name

Front 10

Metaphor:

Back 10

a comparison, stating that one object is something else

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Consonance:

Back 11

repeating the same consonant sound

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Understatement:

Back 12

a statement covering less than the truth or fact

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Rhyme:

Back 13

repeating the same stressed syllable

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Pejorative/dysphemism:

Back 14

using an unpleasant expression

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Antithesis:

Back 15

placing contrasting statements side by side (using parallel structure)

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Metonymy:

Back 16

naming a thing by one of its attributes

Front 17

Alliteration

Back 17

consecutive words, each starting with the same sound

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Onomatopoeia:

Back 18

the sound of a word suits its meaning - sound effects

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Malapropism:

Back 19

using a big word incorrectly

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Symbolism:

Back 20

something concrete that represents an idea

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Synecdoche:

Back 21

a part is substituted for the whole

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Irony:

Back 22

discrepancy in what is and what is expected

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Oxymoron:

Back 23

contradictory ideas used to express one meaning

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Repetition:

Back 24

to say a sound, word, or lines over and over again

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Euphony:

Back 25

pleasant sounding

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Paradox:

Back 26

a seeming contradiction

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Transferred epithet:

Back 27

misplaced adjective (for poetic effect)

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Personification:

Back 28

giving life to inanimate objects

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Rhetorical Question:

Back 29

asking a question in such a way that the answer, being obvious, is not needed

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Apostrophe:

Back 30

addressing directly an inanimate object as if it were alive, or an absent person as if
he/she were present

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Poetic license:

Back 31

having the right to change science, history, and the rules of language

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Assonance:

Back 32

repetition of vowel sounds (not consonant sounds) in a line