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euphemism |
a word or indirect word or expression substituted for one to be considered too harsh when something is unpleasant. |
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oxymoron |
a figure of speech in where theirs a contradiction between two things "imperfectly perfect" |
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paradox |
a statement contradicts itself and yet might be true "the medicine made heather more sick before she got better" |
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simile |
two unlike things being compared using words 'like" or "as" |
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understatement |
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important |
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anthithesis |
a person or thing that is directly opposite |
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verbal irony |
when someone says one thing but means another |
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apostrophe |
a figure of speech in which something has absence "has ownership of word" |
