Figures of Speech

A rhetorical figure that intentionally deviates from the ordinary language.

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A word/phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition for rhetorical or vivid effect.

It is a comparison of two things using "like" & "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Comparison of two things without using the word like and as.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Giving human qualities to objects or animals.

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration

It is the repetition of beginning word sounds

• Alliteration

• Synecdoche

• Assonance

• Irony

a word that imitates the sound it represents.

It addresses someone absent, dead, or non-human as if that person or thing were present.

It is when a part of something is used to refer to the whole.

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Synecdoche

• Apostrophe