Vocablario

METAPHOR

• a kind of metaphor in which abstract or inanimate objects are described as if they were alive and animate.

• an explicit comparison made between two unlike things which is usually indicated by using the words like or as.

• a comparison made between things which are unlike each other by describing one as if it were the other

SIMILE

• an explicit comparison made between two unlike things which is usually indicated by using the words like or as

• : a figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for another thing with which it is usually associated

• the whole of something is used to mean the part of it, or part of it is used to mean the whole

PERSONIFICATION

• the direct addressing of an abstract quality, object or absent person. ALLITERATION: the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in two or more consecutive words.

• the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in the middle of words.

• a kind of metaphor in which abstract or inanimate objects are described as if they were alive and animate.

 PARADOX

• a statement which appears to be contradictory or absurd, but may be true.

• a combination of neighbouring words which seem apparently contradictory or incongruous.

• a figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for another thing with which it is usually associated

OXYMORON

• the whole of something is used to mean the part of it, or part of it is used to mean the whole.

• a combination of neighbouring words which seem apparently contradictory or incongruous.

• the direct addressing of an abstract quality, object or absent person.

METONYMY

• the whole of something is used to mean the part of it, or part of it is used to mean the whole.

• the direct addressing of an abstract quality, object or absent person. ALLITERATION: the repetition of the initial consonant sounds in two or more consecutive words.

• a figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for another thing with which it is usually associated

SYNECDOCHE

• the whole of something is used to mean the part of it, or part of it is used to mean the whole.

• a kind of metaphor in which abstract or inanimate objects are described as if they were alive and animate.

• an explicit comparison made between two unlike things which is usually indicated by using the words like or as.