Rhetorical Techniques
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Pun
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***A play on words created by using one word to suggest two different meanings, both of which seem appropriate in the context of the sentence/paragraph, even though the meanings they suggest may be different or opposite.***
***A play on words created by using one word to suggest two different meanings, both of which seem appropriate in the context of the sentence/paragraph, even though the meanings they suggest may be different or opposite.***
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Figurative Language
***A phrase that is used to creatively express a concept or idea without using the word’s strict meaning.***
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Double Entendre
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***A phrase with a two-sided meaning***
***A phrase with a two-sided meaning***
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Onomatopoeia
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***A word used to describe a sound***
***A word used to describe a sound***
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Simile
***A comparison using like or as***
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Metaphor
***A comparison without like or as***
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Analogy
***A comparison between two things, usually to explain a concept***
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Conceit
***An elaborate metaphor***
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Personification
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***Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman***
***Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman***
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Zeugma
***A figure of speech that can be applied to two things in different senses***
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Allegory
***A reference to another text, media, etc.***
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Fable
***A short story usually used to convey a moral***
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Metonymy
a figure of speech where a word or phrase is substituted with another word or phrase that is closely associated with it
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Synecdoche
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***A figure of speech where a part is used to represent a whole, or vice versa***
***A figure of speech where a part is used to represent a whole, or vice versa***
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Apposition
***a relationship between 2 or more words/phrases that are grammatically parallel and have the same referent***
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Epithet
***A descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person/thing mentioned***
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Hyperbole
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***An over exaggeration***
***An over exaggeration***
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Understatement
***A under-exaggeration, the opposite of a hyperbole***
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Litotes
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***ironic statement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary***
***ironic statement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary***
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Euphemism
***a milder substitute for a phrase that is considered harsh/blunt***
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Paradox
***A statement that logically cannot be possible because of its contradictory***
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Oxymoron
***A figure of speech in which contradictory words appear in conjunction***
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Allusion
***A piece of writing that hints to a person, place, thing, literature, or art***
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