Rhetorical Items [Set 4]

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Figures of Speech:

Analogy

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The comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one.

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Figures of Speech:

Apostrophe

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The direct address of a person or personified thing, either present or absent. Its most common purpose in prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back.

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Figures of Speech:

Cliché

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An expression so often used that its original power has been drained away.

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Figures of Speech:

Conceit

Back 4

An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor, in which say a beloved is compared to a ship, planet, etc.

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Figures of Speech:

Epithet

Back 5

An adjective or adjective phrases appropriately qualifying a subject (noun) by naming a key or important characteristic of the subject.

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Figures of Speech:

Euphemism

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The expression of an unpleasant or embarrassing notion by a more inoffensive substitute.

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Figures of Speech:

Hyperbole

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Exaggeration used for emphasis.

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Figures of Speech:

Imagery

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The collection of images within a literary work used to evoke atmosphere, mood, or tension.

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Figures of Speech:

Verbal Irony

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The contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant.

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Figures of Speech:

Situational Irony

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The result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected.

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Figures of Speech:

Extended Metaphor.

Back 11

A metaphor that is drawn out beyond the usual word or phrase to extend throughout a stanza or an entire poem, usually by using multiple comparisons between the unlike objects or ideas.

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Figures of Speech:

Metonymy

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Another form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche, in which the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with (but not an actual part of) the subject with which it is to be compared.

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Figures of Speech:

Oxymoron

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A paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun or adverb-adjective relationship, that is used for effect, to emphasize contrasts, incongruities, hypocrisy, or simple a complex nature of reality.

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Figures of Speech:

Paradox

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A statement that seems untrue on the surface, but is true nevertheless.

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Figures of Speech:

Personification

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The metaphorical representation of an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes.

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Figures of Speech:

Pun

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A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

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Figures of Speech:

Simile

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A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as."

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Figures of Speech:

Synaesthesia

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A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain. The descriptions of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.

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Figures of Speech:

Synecdoche

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A part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part.

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Figures of Speech:

Understatement

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Expressing an idea with less emphasis or in a lesser degree than in the actual case.