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Comparison using like or as
What is simile
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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration
100
the use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing
What is periphrasis
100
the witty exploitation of the meanings and ambiguities of words
What is wordplay
100
the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they.
What is anaphora
200
comparison without using like or as
What is metaphor
200
a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
What is idiom
200
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
What is onomatopeia
200
the action of repeating something
What is repetition
200
the action of transposing something.
What is transposition
300
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is oxymoron
300
exaggerated statements
What is hyperbole
300
the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
What is assonance
300
the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way
What is parallelism
300
is a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.
What is apostrophe
400
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
What is Imagery
400
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
What is synecdoche
400
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is pun
400
the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association
What is contrast
400
is a figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an external context.
What is allusion
500
giving a non-human object human characteristics
What is personification
500
the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
What is metonymy
500
the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in,
What is malapropism
500
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
What is antithesis
500
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
What is connotation