Figures of Speech

Tropes

• a personal, jeering ridicule that is intended to hurt individuals

• alterations in the usual meanings of words or phrases

• A comparison using LIKE or AS

Sarcasm

• alterations in the usual meanings of words or phrases

• the deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context

• a personal, jeering ridicule that is intended to hurt individuals

Ellipsis

• the deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context

• an implied comparison between two unlike things

• The use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning

Asyndeton

• a personal, jeering ridicule that is intended to hurt individuals

• the deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context

• omitted conjunctions, which produce a fast-paced and rapid prose

Metaphor

• an implied comparison between two unlike things

• a comparison of two unlike things using LIKE or AS

• a deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

Onomatopoeia

• the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

• a statement commonly defined as a question that does not require an answer

Hyperbole

• deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

• the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

Rhetorical Question

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

• a statement commonly defined as a question that does not require an answer

• a deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

Oxymoron

• attributing animal qualities that are not uniquely human to an inanimate object

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

• the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas

Animism

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

• attributing animal qualities that are not uniquely human to an inanimate object

• the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first