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Examples
100
repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
exaggeration used for effect
What is hyperbole?
100
A comparison of two things
What is metaphor?
100
She is like the sun!
What is simile?
100
How many Dantes have written to you?
What is allusion?
200
giving animal like characteristics to something/someone
What is animism?
200
Repeated vowel sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of words.
What is assonance?
200
A play on words
What is pun?
200
Your lipstick grinning on our coat
What is personification?
200
"Twinkle Twinkle, little star"
What is apostrophe?
300
The opposite of hyperbole
What is litotes?
300
a seeming contradiction.
What is paradox?
300
Used to avoid bluntness.
What is euphemism?
300
"If we play our cards right"
What is idiom?
300
"Frozen Silence" "Bitter cold"
What is synesthesia?
400
a sudden intuitive leap of understanding
What is epiphany?
400
Used to point out a characteristic od a person
What is epithet?
400
Lack of conjunctions between successive clauses, phrases, or lines
What is asyndeton?
400
He plays baseball, and basketball, and football, and soccer.
What is polysyndeton?
400
After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.
What is syllepsis?
500
The same word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses, sentences, or line.
What is Epistrophe?
500
An expression not used in formal speech or writing
What is colloquialism?
500
the use of humourous devices like irony, understatement, and exaggeration
What is satire?
500
May it never depart from your two loving hearts, May you treasure this gift from above
What is anaphora?
500
Where spouting pillars spoor the evening sky
What is cacophony?