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Metonymy
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Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant.
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Lend me your ear
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Synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part stands for a whole.
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All hands on deck
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Litotes
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Deliberate use of understatement for enhancement.
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Antanaclasis
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Repetition of a word in two different senses. Pun.
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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Anthimeria
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Substitution of one part of speech for another
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The thunder would not peace at my bidding
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Paronomasia
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Use of words alike in sound but different in meaning. Pun.
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Casting my perils before swains
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Syllepsis
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Use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs. Pun.
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The ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen.
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Zeugma
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Joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun.
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Mr Jones took his coat and his leave
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Periphrasis
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Substitution of a descriptive word with a proper name, or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name.
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She may not have been a penelope, but she was not as unfaithful as the gossips made her out to be.
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