Tropes

Metaphor

Comparison between 2 unlike things without “like” or “as”

Simile

Explicit comparison between two unlike things with “like” or “as”

Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole or vise versa

Metonymy

Reference to something or someone by naming something with which it is closely associated 

Pun

Generic name for those figures which make a play on words using words that are written similarly or identically but have different meanings 

Zeugma

On verb controls 2 or more objects that have differentsynactic and semantic relations to it 

Personification

Reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities

Apostrophe

addressing an absent person or personified abstraction

Verbal Irony

Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says often for the purpose of derision mockery or just

Hyperbole

exaggeration for purpose of emphasis or heightened effect

Understatement

deliberately making something seem less important for ironic emphasis or polite tact

Rhetorical Question

Any question asked for a purpose other than to obtain the information the question asks

Onomatopoeia

Use of words whose sound echoes the sense

Oxymoron

Placing 2 terms that are ordinarily contradictory adjacent to one another

Paradox

A contradictory statement that reveals a deeper truth