Figure of Speech
1. Synecdoche - an association of some important part with the whole it represents
2. Simile - an indirect association; use the word "like", "as ____as"
3. Personification - giving human attributes to an inanimate object (idea, plants, etc.)
4. Oxymoron - a self-contrasting statement; puts together two contradictory terms
5. Metonymy - an association where the name of something is substituted by something that represents it.
6. Metaphor - a direct comparison; example: Phantom of Delight, she is a lovely rose
7. Irony - the contrast between what was expected and what actually happened
8. Hyberbole - an exaggeration
9. Euphemism - creating a positive connotation out of something negative
10. Ellipsis - the omission of words in a sentence (...)
11. Asyndeton - not putting any connectors (conjunctions or preposition)
12. Apostrophe - a direct address to abstract things or a person who passed away.
13. Aphorism - example: out of the frying pan and into the fire
14. Antithesis - involves a contrast of words or ideas; example: to err is human, to forgive is divine (Alexander Pope); Lovers are said to speak of living deaths, dear wounds, fair storms, and freezing fires ( P. Sydney)
15. Onomatopeia - formation or use of words which imitate sounds; Tinkle, Tinkle, Tinkle
16. Allusion - refers to any literary, biblical, historical, mythological, scientific event, character or place.
17. Paradox - phrase or statement that on surfaces seems contradiction but makes some kind of emotional sense
18. Litotes - deliberate understatement used to affirm by negating it's opposite
Idioms
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