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deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; for example: "my love is a fragile flower."
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metaphor
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the attribution of human qualities of a nonhuman or an inanimate object
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personification
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a figure of thought that plays on words that have the same sound (homonyms) or similar sounds, but have sharply contrasted meanings.
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pun
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the repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as in neigh/fade
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assonance
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the repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowel sounds, as in boost/best; can also seen within several compound words, such as fulfill and ping-pong
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consonance
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a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, of work of art. It can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical.
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allusion
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A form of comic word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar; the speaker usually appears ignorant or buffoonish.
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malapropism
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