what is a The commencement of two or more words of a group with the same letter.
example:She sells sea shells down by the seashore.
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personifaction
What is The attribute of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions.
Example: The plant is jumping up and down.
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hyperbole
What is Definition: an obvious or intentional exaggeration
Example: I have a ton of homework.
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Oxymoron
What is : In which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
Example: cruel kindness
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juxtaposition
What is Definition: In compsotion the placing of verbal elements side by side leaving it up to the reader to establish connections and impose a meaning.
Example: A hobo next to a corvette.
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Simile
What is A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
Example: She is like a rose.
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cacophony
What is The use of words that imitate the sounds of associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Example: a cacophony of hoots cackles and wails
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onomatopoeia
What is Definition: an imitation of a sound
Example: Boom pow
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Allusion
What is efinition: A brief usually indirect reference to a person place or event
Example: I think that some people are stupid ( while looking at mike)
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irony
What is Definition: Verbal irony is a trope in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express.
Example: Gentlemen you can’t fight in here! This is the war room/
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assonance
What is the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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paradox
What is Definition: A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
Example: war is peace
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Metaphor
What is Definition: In which an implied comparison is made between two unlike thangs that actually have something in common.
Example: A mighty forest is our God.
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PUN
What is : A play on word either on different senses of the same word or on similar sense or sound of different words
The butcher is a meat head.
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pun
What is Definition: A play on word either on different senses of the same word or on similar sense or sound of different words
Example: The butcher is a meat head!!! hahahahahahahah