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11 Cards in this Set
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Simile |
likening one thing to another by the use of like,as |
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Metaphor |
in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another |
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Personification |
giving inanimate objects human characteristics |
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Synecdoche |
part is made to represent the whole |
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Metonymy |
in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept |
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Hyperbole |
exaggerated statements |
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Understatement |
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is |
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Paradox |
a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory |
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Oxymoron |
juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory |
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Apostrophe |
in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present |
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Litotes |
ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary |
